One of the famous aircraft companies, Cessna has achieved the best plants winner based on the Industry Week. Their quality metrics was assessed as very very good. For them, “Quality Preparation Delivers Quality Excellence”… Thanks to Cessna’s Quality manager, Jesus Acosta, he revealed to us the secret behind their quality management. Let’s take a look! “Quality Preparation Delivers...
Dear readers, hello again! Super good to be back from a week long holiday in China… Today, we’re gonna discuss about the suppliers subcontract. Before we start, maybe some of you are wondering what suppliers’ subcontract is. Suppliers subcontract is an act done by suppliers, when they attain products that customers order from another suppliers. This usually happens because...
Hey quality control freaks, and girls especially! Today I will tell you about Supplier Capability Assessment, aka SCA. This is an audit that we recommend you to purchase at the least when assessing whether your potential supplier meets your requirements. Like talking about SOS (Supplier On-Site Survey) last month, this time I will open you up a...
Hey guys! Did you already hear that ISO 9001:2015 is now available for purchase? Or aren’t you yet so familiar with ISO certificates? I know, with thousands of ISO standards out there, it can be harsh to understand the difference between them all.. Well, here’s a glimpse of ISO 9000, ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 9001:2015. What...
Hello everyone, today we’re gonna discuss a topic about the “Carton Drop Test”. I would say that, this topic is quite important because as a customer, we want to receive our goods in a perfect condition, right? So, actually, what is the functionality of carton drop test? How do we do the test? Let’s check this out!...
Today I am going to tell you about my first eye-opening inspection in China. To tell you shortly about my background, I come from a business school in Finland and currently doing my internship in China. My previous job experience includes mainly positions in the retail and insurance sector. Now, I am responsible of marketing, and...
Hey guys! This week I went to a factory audit with two of our inspectors. It was the first factory audit to the other inspector as well, so we were both learning and seeing how things work inside a factory for the first time. Our lead inspector is already an old hand, and he was really...
Almost every day since the crazy and massive trend of Android phones started, SBE has been performing countless inspections at those manufacturers’ premises. Some of them amazingly established and some others impressively disastrous. The city of Shenzhen has always been world famous for being an electronic cluster, so an inspection related to electronics is very...
When you are doing business with Chinese people, it is highly recommended to learn about the cultural differences in order to be successful and prevent mistakes and problems with Chinese suppliers. Sometimes Chinese words and expressions are a good guide towards some of these cultural differences. In particular, when a word or phrase is complex to...
Size is important for obvious reasons when trying to fit your product in an export carton. Let’s take a quick look on how to properly read and write measurements according to the industry standard. There are three dimensions to the basic foldi ng carton; Length (L), width (W), and height (H). In written form the dimensions...