Register to join us for our July Community Call on building a Distributed Contracting System. @max_w , Technical Coordinator at the Internet of Production (IOP), will present an overview of his research for the development of a digital contracting prototype for distributed production.
This work is supported and funded by mAkE, European Horizon 2020 project, and Research and Innovation Systems in Africa (RISA Fund).
I wasn’t available for the call, but @ericnitschke shared the pad with me and I’ve had a bit of a read through.
Looking through the attached links I have a few thoughts/questions about Quality Inspection. At the moment we are saying this is performed by the buyer/an independent inspector. I think it is important that quality is inspected by the manufacturer so they can get their processes correct to meet a specification. There is then a question to the buyer on how they check that quality control is good enough
US manufacturers with specific certifications from external bodies
Ask the manufacturer to provide testing reports
Batch test incoming products
Test all incoming products
Either way. I think the hardest bit about quality control isn’t the who, but the what and the how. Some of this is dimensional tolerances etc on designs, but there may also need to be functional checks. The hardest part of doing quality control well is designing the quality checks, not performing the checks.
Coming back to contracting, I suppose my questions would be:
Who is designing the checks? (I ask this skill may not be one the designer has, it is more of a manufacturer’s skill.)
As we write template contracts to help people through, how do we help them through this key element? - My only thought here is perhaps a worked example thinking through and designing checks. Not something complete enough to teach the skill, but enough to demonstrate the type of thought process and the sort of checks that may be asked for.
Hi @Jessicang, I am not sure what these scenarios are. I don’t see them mentioned in the medium post:
Also… the URL for the medium post in the survey is not a hyperlink, and the URL is truncated so people may not be able to access it if they don’t already have it in their browser history.
2024-07-09T12:00:00Z
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