This book presents practical guidelines in quality control for the plastics industry. It details proven industry-wide practices and strategies, including process optimization plans, supplier through customer quality planning, SPC and continuous improvement, and more.

How to Assure Quality in Plastics provides the reader with a basic understanding of the technologies and systems utilized to ensure a structured approach to product/process quality. It defines and details many procedures that are commonly used in quality departments, offering a basic knowledge of quality systems from advanced quality planning on through to final product inspection and the importance of relationships cultivated through customer satisfaction and supplier development.

From the Preface: “...Case studies and examples will be included that highlight typical roadblocks and the methods followed to overcome them. Throughout the book the ”team“ concept will be defined in detail along with the pragmatic steps involved in team building. It will take you beyond the orthodox boundaries of ”quality“ and address relationships, roles, and the art of follow-up which truly are essentials in the quest for quality...”

Target Audience: All quality, engineering, manufacturing, process control, and management personnel, as well as students, who are concerned with the quality function in plastics manufacturing.

Table of Contents:

The Beginning

Advanced Quality Planning

Sampling and Submissions

Supplier Development and Control

Inspection

Gage Control

Statistical Process Control

Process Control and Optimization

Problem Solving

Nonconforming Material Control

Lot Control and Traceability

Document Control

Internal Systems Control

ISO-9000

Systems Implementation and Maintenance

Continuous Improvement

Relationships

Index