Quality inspection now has the burden of keeping pace with modern manufacturing. In addition to this challenge, ISO 9000 standards, shape complexity, dimensional tolerance and customers’ increasing quality demands can create delays in inspection, affecting the entire manufacturing process.
The challenge of quality assurance is to apply new technology and methods to ultimately create a new quality management system. Modern manufacturing demands fast and accurate inspection during production while simultaneously reducing cost through reduced scrap rates and improved process efficiency and profitability. In addition, new systems must provide inspection data that can be manipulated easily for multiple uses and stored away for future reference and process control. Here are five steps to begin to modernize the quality process and reduce inspection costs.