Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

Keeping shipments on schedule is one of the greatest challenges importers face, but delays can be hard to avoid when you’re dealing with serious quality issues. Check out these tips to meet your deadlines!

Topics: Product Inspection, Working with Factories, Quality Control Checklist

This week on Best in Manufacturing: Do you find yourself whacking one supply chain problem, only to find another pop up? Get some tips on how to optimize your supply chain here!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing

Does sourcing in Taiwan carry the same business risks and challenges as in mainland China? Learn more about key differences of manufacturing in Taiwan vs. mainland China in this article!

Topics: Sourcing, Working with Factories

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about Nokia's "Factory in a Box" concept that puts production INSIDE a shipping container, blockchain in supply chains and more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing

Are you prepared to take on the massive undertaking that is establishing a local office in China to hire full-time inspectors? Don't count out third-party inspection with InTouch as a viable option.

Topics: Product Inspection

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about the legal risks of using Hong Kong trading companies to manufacture in Mainland China, Chinese business culture myths and more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Working with Factories, Process Improvement

Destroying your own products to prevent damaging your brand may sound counterintuitive. But product destruction can actually save your import business from defective or harmful products that can hurt your brand reputation and harm customers.

Topics: Product Destruction

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn how industrial mobility technologies will change manufacturing as we know it, tips for manufacturing contracts & more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Working with Factories

How can you minimize the risk to your brand when you discover substandard products in your order? These 4 defect management strategies can help!

Topics: Working with Factories, Product Destruction

This week on Best in Manufacturing, learn about Amazon's new “Supply Chain Connect” program that aims to bring suppliers online, China's Polar Silk Road & more!

Topics: Best in Manufacturing, Process Improvement