When you are importing goods from Indonesia, conducting quality inspections is necessary to ensure that you are receiving good quality products and they are meet all of your specifications. One of the inspection services that you can conduct is called Production Monitoring. This inspection service is an efficient way to keep your production schedule on track, avoid delayed shipment, and reduce product defects before it is shipped to your warehouse.
Production monitoring assists importers or buyers who manufacture their products in Indonesia in ensuring that their production line runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible during the whole process. Production monitoring is important because it can reduce defects early in the production line and maintain product quality standards. It is also playing an important role to maintain the production costs reasonable and on time while adhering to the correct specs. Investing in production monitoring, a service that significantly improves your control over what’s going on at the factory is one way to avoid any unexpected defect.
What is production monitoring?
Production Monitoring is a quality inspection conducted during the production before the products are packed. The quality inspector performs daily inspection on-site, usually between 10% and 80% of the production process to ensure the raw materials, product quality and production progress meet all the standards agreed between the buyer and the manufacturer. Production monitoring gives you a complete report on your manufacturing process, that will allow you to spot the defect and fix it earlier that will avoid delayed shipment.
Production monitoring is a solution that allows you to control your manufacturing process. It gives you as an importer more control and visibility into the entire manufacturing process, ensuring that there are no “surprises” when the products arrive at your warehouse.
The goal of this service is to reduce quality issues at all stages of production and to have a quick and correct action for detecting and resolving quality issues during the manufacturing process.
The advantages of production monitoring
- Production monitoring gives a clear overview of all production processes in the factory.
- Production monitoring assists importers in anticipating and preventing delays that could result in consumer satisfaction.
- Production monitoring enables inspectors to identify defects before the goods are shipped to customers, saving time and potentially losing future business.
What do we check during the production monitoring?
Excellencial have conducted hundreds of production monitoring inspections in Indonesia, and here’s what we checked during the inspection:
- Production lines
- Manufacturing processes
- Status and quantity (ready, unpacked, still in production)
- Finished product comparison with the master sample
- Product appearance and specifications (workmanship, color, dimensions, accessories, marking, weight, logo, etc.)
- Packaging appearance and specifications (printing, marking labels, dimensions, weight, thickness, etc.)
- On-site test (functional test, abuse test, carton drop test, internal test, assembly check, etc.)
- Any other special requirements you may have
- Root causes of issues
- Corrective action plan implementation
Contact us for more information about Production Monitoring in Indonesia.