Material delivered to the receiving department will be inspected by material handling personnel for accurate count/weight and any obvious shipping damage. Material ready for Quality Control inspection will be able to be identified by the absence of a Quality Control tag. All material will be subject to lot inspection to the appropriate quality level as established by the purchasing department with approval of the Quality Control and Engineering Manager.
Approved material
will be tagged with a blue tag, and will be marked with the date, part
number, count, and routing (stock or production dept.) as required.
The Quality Control inspector will initial all tags. No stock will be
accepted in the warehouse without this tag. No stock may be used for
production without this tag. It will be the responsibility of the department
foreman to ensure that all material used for production in his/her department
has been approved with a blue tag.
Material that is questionable will be given a yellow tag with the reasons
or questions noted, and then removed to the quarantine area for deposition.
Material that is rejected outright will be given a red tag with all
pertinent information as described above, and will be removed to the
quarantine area for subsequent return to the supplier.
Process
Material Control
Prior to the start
of a production run of either component parts or finished assemblies,
a "first off" sample is inspected for all characteristics
listed on the inspection instruction sheet. The part is also visually
compared to the tagged "master sample" for all non-measurable
attributes. It is then tagged with the part number, data, and inspectors
initials for future reference
