I've been looking for some benchmarks for the number of QC employees per annual sales or annual production sales or annual contribution (sales minus cost material minus sublet cost) etc. Specifically for metal stamping. I searched the common quality magazines and numerous websites. Does anyone have any information? Should I create a poll? Thanks in advance, Totumfrog.

I've been looking for some benchmarks for the number of QC employees per annual sales or annual production sales or annual contribution (sales minus cost material minus sublet cost) etc. Specifically for metal stamping. I searched the common quality magazines and numerous websites. Does anyone have any information? Should I create a poll? Thanks in advance, Totumfrog.

Look at this thread: Number of Quality Personnel - How many quality personnel does your company employ? (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=14277).

Stijloor.

I worked in stamping, in a TS shop a tier 1 supplier. I think they had 15 operators, and 12 in the quality dept. They had thousands of part numbers and the PPAPs alone were the reason for such a large QC dept. The amount of sorting and inspection was amazing.

Base on my experience, we cannot set specific number of Quality personnel base on annual income. If your company produce 100 pcs of 1 part which is selling price is US1000 per part compare to produce 100 pcs of 100 parts which is the selling price is same, are you going to put the same number of Quality personnel?

You may take some consideration such as
1. Number of new part per year
2. Number of task
3. Qualification level of each staff
4. Who is your customer
5. Who is your supplier
6. Number of current part
7. Number of customer and supplier
8. Yearly company income


thanks, shafie

Generally in an organization the Quality staff is taken as 5 - 10 % of the Operations / Production staff.