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Method and apparatus for a receiving, inspection, and supplier quality system

  • US 10,410,161 B2
  • Filed: 06/14/2007
  • Issued: 09/10/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/14/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • automated management of inspection of items using past supplier performance and product quality history to determine an inspection level and an inspection sample size by a computer system;

    receiving an identifier for an item in a shipment of items to form item received data;

    outputting inspection criteria for the item;

    retrieving a quality history for the item from an inventory management database, wherein the quality history is data regarding results of inspections of a similar item received;

    automatically adjusting inspection criteria for inspecting the shipment of items using the quality history to form adjusted inspection criteria, wherein the adjusted inspection criteria includes the inspection level and the inspection sample size, wherein the inspection level includes at least one of skip inspection, normal inspection, and tightened inspection;

    receiving an inspection result from inspection of the item, wherein the inspection of the item is performed with the adjusted inspection criteria;

    determining, based on the inspection result, whether the item is a conforming item or a non-conforming item;

    responsive to the item being a conforming item, ordering that the item be delivered; and

    responsive to the item being a non-conforming item, taking an action selected from the group consisting of;

    ordering that the item is to be delivered, ordering that the item is to be returned, ordering that the item is to be re-worked, and ordering that the item is to be scrapped.

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