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    The following are some of the advantages that a supplier audit can provide:

    Adopt Quality Assurance Standards for Your Organization
    Your ultimate product’s quality is largely determined by the quality of your suppliers. To ensure consistency, it makes reasonable to apply the same set of standards throughout the supply chain. An electronic quality management system can track and measure compliance with customer quality management system needs, industry standards, and legislation. Any noncompliant material will be discovered during a quality audit, and a strategy will be put in place to assure compliance with industry standards.

    Use Document Management to its Full Potential
    A supplier audit will ensure that all of a supplier’s quality papers are in place and properly archived. During the audit process, important records for inspections, nonconformances, and supplier approvals are verified.

    Identify Potentially Dangerous Areas
    Every item, subassembly, and final assembly has complete traceability and product genealogy, ensuring operational excellence throughout the product lifetime. An audit of a supplier’s quality process, manufacturing process, engineering modification process, and shipping process will reveal any gaps, allowing a manufacturer to complete the loop on any deviations, nonconformances, or delays.

    Recover the Value of Low-Quality Products
    A supplier audit gives you a complete picture of your supply chain’s performance, allowing you to spot winners and losers. Suppliers can have a substantial impact on quality costs. Supplier-related activities are responsible for many of the elements that contribute to the Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ). Manufacturers can then opt to engage with a supplier to improve quality or pursue cost recovery through supplier charge-backs for faulty products.

    Enhance Supplier Collaboration
    A supplier audit helps the company and its suppliers work together more effectively. On both sides of the partnership, visibility into supplier-related actions allows for an open exchange of information and complete transparency. Audits are conducted on a regular basis to ensure that the manufacturer/supplier relationship is accomplishing its goals and remains mutually beneficial. When goals are aligned, the chances of manufacturing success increase dramatically.

    Customer satisfaction should be improved
    A supplier audit clarifies quality goals and speeds up the process of bringing high-quality products to market. Any unfavorable safety incidence is detected before it occurs when areas of risk are investigated. Customer satisfaction with the end product will undoubtedly improve if strict compliance and quality standards are in place.

    The quality of a company’s suppliers can have a significant impact on its reputation. A supplier audit is a simple approach to add accountability to the supply chain while also accurately measuring performance.

    in reply to: Avantages of Third Party Quality Inspection #1635
    cnctime
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    What are the advantages of having a third party inspect your work?

    The following are some of the advantages of third-party inspection:
    1) Product quality has improved
    The improvement in product quality is one of the most notable benefits of Third Party Inspection. The inspector makes sure that only high-quality, safe equipment and materials are used in the manufacturing process. This ensures that the products offered are always of the highest quality.
    Inspection also aids in the detection of flaws. Whether the defect is slight or major, knowing about it aids the provider in addressing and correcting the problem.

    2) Better customer service
    The relationship between suppliers and importers is quite complicated. The importers put their faith in the suppliers to deliver high-quality items, but the suppliers do not receive feedback until the buyer sees it. As a result, the interval between these events might lead to misunderstandings and a loss of credibility. As a result, the third-party serves as a go-between, providing unbiased feedback that helps to improve the relationship between suppliers and importers.

    3) Avoiding unrealistic expectations
    There is a lack of transparency between a supplier and an importer. As a result, third-party inspection aids in setting your expectations before the production process begins. This helps to keep a supplier’s and importer’s relationship from deteriorating.

    4) Communication is simple
    The use of a Third Party Inspection allows suppliers and importers to communicate easily and comfortably. It is simpler to present quality criteria and request that vendors achieve the desired results.

    cnctime
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    Importers can use social accountability audits to check on the working conditions of their suppliers.
    Many importers are worried about social accountability in their supply chains these days.
    When working with manufacturers in underdeveloped nations, social audits can be useful in ensuring that the working conditions at supplier facilities are acceptable.
    The ISO standard, which includes nine core areas of social accountability, is used in the majority of social audits.
    Hiring a third party to conduct an audit is a smart method to satisfy your company’s and consumers’ social accountability goals.

    in reply to: Main use of 3D laser scanning in manufacturing #1594
    cnctime
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    In a range of fields including academic study, 3D laser scanning is applied. Clothing and product design, the motor industry, and medical science have all profited from it. Laser scanning can also be used to document structures, particularly in areas where people are unable to enter owing to safety concerns. Industrial, architectural, civil surveying, urban topography, mining, reverse engineering, quality, archaeology, dentistry, and mechanical dimensional inspection are just a few of the many applications for 3D Laser Scanning. In comparison to other traditional metrology technologies and methodologies, 3D laser scanning technology enables for high resolution and significantly faster 3D digitization. Animation and virtual reality applications are two really fascinating applications.

    in reply to: What are the Disadvantages of Dnc Machine? #1385
    cnctime
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    The DNC system has the following drawbacks:

      DNC employs centralized control, and in the event of a computer breakdown, the machine shop’s entire operation would grind to a halt.
      DNC is costly, yet it is useful in situations when great automation is necessary.
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    in reply to: Why use third-party quality inspection? #845
    cnctime
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    One of the most important benefits of third-party inspection for suppliers is the quality improvement that often results. Sometimes inspection reveals a product defect that’sbenefits of third-party inspection for suppliers easily preventable.

    in reply to: Indexable drill hole bottom question #840
    cnctime
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    You don’t say much about you operation as in the size you are trying to achieve
    Iscar and other manufacturers do have a flat bottom drill head that does what you describe. Iscars go up to about 1-1/4 dia.
    iscars designation for this is FCP 1260. this could also be made for you in a specific size under 1.280 dia. if the size you want is no there

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