Picture this; you want to realise why you are receiving customer complaints about defects in your product, but are still unable to capture the faulty items before they reach the selling stage. If that sounds familiar it may be because you aren’t implementing digital quality control; the leading method by most companies in identifying defects in products or loopholes in methods.
Quality control is not just simply writing your observations on a tablet instead of a paper checklist; today’s organisations are integrating the method into a wider paperless inspection approach. From businesses producing bottle drinks to those making tyres, from chipset manufacturers to farmers – anyone who produces a product can utilise digital quality control.
Whilst it may sound like just taking quality control and making it digital, digital quality control represents much more than that. Besides moving all paper-based checklists onto a smartphone or tablet, users can benefit from many different features that are made possible thanks to mobile devices and smart applications. Many products today are manufactured on intricate assembly lines with repetitive processes to enhance the speed and output of the operation. The issue is that i.e., when your robot or assembly line is out of line, all those bottle caps wont screw on properly. Before you realise the mistake, hundreds or even thousands of bottles can be packaged and ready to go with bottlecaps that are incorrectly fitted. This is where quality control processes come in. Having an inspector observing the line and making a note on a paper checklist is all well and good until issues arise or you want to keep that line running during an inspection. This is where digital quality control is unmatched in its potential. By different recording methods and using new features, certain issues and oversights can be removed or heavily reduced so that the SLA is comfortably met.
