Inspectors in a furniture manufacturer - How many quality assurance auditors

gpainter

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How many quality assurance auditors - Inspectors in a furniture manufacturer

Looking for some advice on the number of QA auditors for inspectors in a furniture manufacturing environment. At what points have you seen them or would you reccomend. I want to keep the operators in charge of quality and use the auditors for dimensional checks, trouble shooting,etc.
 
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Without knowing your production processes from, incoming raw materials to layout, machining, sub assembly and finishing, it's hard to say. :rolleyes:
Wallace.
 

Randy

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As many as you think necessary and as many as it takes to get the job done?

I'm in SIC 2541 (probably similar to you) and you know how many we have? Nada, Zero, Zilch, None....
 
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gpainter said:
Looking for some advice on the number of QA auditors for inspectors in a furniture manufacturing environment. At what points have you seen them or would you reccomend. I want to keep the operators in charge of quality and use the auditors for dimensional checks, trouble shooting,etc.
In an electronics shop with 45 different manufacturing steps, I had two auditors per shift. They do unannounced product and process audits each day and provide reports to me and the operations manager.
 

gpainter

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That is great Randy (I hope). We want to also keep the operators in charge of quality so my plan is to have limited number of QAs and not make it a situation where "quality department is responsible for quality, we just produce".
 
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