ISO 9000 factory audits for your China suppliers
Category: Blog; Updated on: 2019-04-18 15:31:10; Views: 1724
1. Understanding the buyer's requirements
Why is this important? Because it directly impacts the factory's reliability (how likely are they to have quality problems and to miss deadlines?)
Performing such an audit on a small workshop is over-kill. They probably have no system at all, and the auditor's job is over in 20 minutes.
We have worked on a new template for our company's Capacity & Reliability Audit service, and here are the checkpoints related to the quality system:
1. Understanding the buyer's requirements
2. Suppliers of materials / components
3. Incoming quality control (IQC)
4. Organization of in-house production
5. In-Process quality control (IPQC)
6. Subcontracted production
7. Final quality control (FQC)
8. Instruments & machines
9. Prevention of problems
1. Understanding the buyer's requirements
2. Suppliers of materials / components
3. Incoming quality control (IQC)
4. Organization of in-house production
5. In-Process quality control (IPQC)
6. Subcontracted production
7. Final quality control (FQC)
8. Instruments & machines
9. Prevention of problems
Important note: This is not the checklist followed when a manufacturer wants to be "ISO 9001-certified" (which does not mean much in countries like China). This is the checklist our auditors follow when they help an importer evaluate the reliability of a potential supplier.