I work for a large Bio-tech company. We are currently in the process of designing a pilot run to test having our Incoming Inspection process done in real time on the Warehouse floor (goal is to have the product received and inspected within 2 hours of arrival). Currently it's done as an additional process involving numerous material moves and several days in between receipt of product and it's initial inspection.
Does anyone have experience with this and can you tell me what some of your lessons learned were?
In our case the medical device cable is the most critical part and has many quality and reliability requirements. The shift has been from incoming quality inspection to supplier process control and part of it shifted to internal assembly process.
The pull test / bend test at connector end and the material certification along with sample resistor check (the connectors have built in resistors to specific value and tolerances) are from the supplier.
Our incoming quality inspection limits to random sample check on length and surface finish.
The assembly process checks 100% all cable in the continuity tester for the color configuration, shorts, opens and resistor value. This authenticates both the cable as well as some of our soldering processes.