Many production issues can occur during the manufacturing process, such as poor product quality, long lead times, high on-hand inventory, supply chain interruptions, and so on. All of these issues will be impacting the products you are selling, which in the worst cases has an impact on the customers’ and potential customers’ perception of your brand.
The most common problems during production can be classified into four categories:
- Quality problems: High defect rate, high return rate, and poor quality.
- Output problem: Long lead time, unreasonable production schedule, high inventory rate, supply chain interruption.
- Cost problem: Low efficiency, idle people or machines.
- Management problem: Potential safety hazard, bad working conditions.
How to Handle the Production Issues
Quality control simply means maintaining control over the quality of the products you’re producing. There are several things you can do to handle the issues found during production, as follows:
Identify the main problems
This is the first step you should do when you find an issue during production. For example, the furniture you ordered from Indonesia gets moldy after a week you store them in your warehouse. There is clearly an issue during the production. The first thing you need to do is identify the main problems; what caused them? Whether the moisture content in their raw material or the communication issue where your supplier did not fully understand your wants and standards.
Thus, you must be extremely specific with your supplier, clearly stating the moisture content of the wood. When they send you a sample, you should have it tested. Ensure that the factory understands what you want and your standards including the specification of the products.
Dig into the details
After knowing the cause of the problem, it is necessary to dig into the details to give you deeper information about your product’s quality issue. Let’s talk more about the moldy furniture above. If you found out that the main cause of the issue is the moisture content, the other details that need to be considered now are the type of wood, how it was cured, and how it is stored at the factory because these factors are related to one another.
Packaging is also playing an important role, how the furniture packed may affect the product inside. Considering desiccant packets (such as silica) inside the packaging to keep moisture levels low even when your products are sitting in a warehouse waiting to be shipped can be one of your solutions to minimize this kind of issue.
Work smarter, not harder
Dealing with low-quality products is time and energy consuming. It needs a lot of extra work. Thus, by investing in production monitoring, controlling the production processes, actually can save more of your time and money so you can focus on developing your business. Why? Because this quality control service will allow you to spot the issue right during the production so that the supplier can do a service or re-work the product.
Excellencial independent third-party inspection services in Indonesia will provide you with confidence that your products are having fewer quality issues with the Production Monitoring service. We will ensure that your supplier has qualified guidance to produce your product and achieve your quality standards and that you get professional feedback on a daily basis.
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