How to Improve Visual Product Inspection
Summary
While your factory likely has plenty of verification testing and automated inspections in place, it’s not uncommon for problems to continue slipping through the cracks. In fact, one study showed that operators only identified defects between 55% and 72% of the time, leading to unnecessary extra work or unacceptable customer deliveries. From the game-changing Pareto principle to establishing a set baseline, and even what training you should have in place, this blog has all the insight you need to do better human inspection of products. Focusing on the key things will make the biggest difference, and the job of manpowered inspection much more effective. Based on the results of the spot checks, if you’re finding that there are some false rejects or some things are slipping through the cracks, then you need to redesign that process to improve it.