Before you embark on a partnership with a new supplier, or perhaps if you wish to improve the standards of an existing supplier, it is important to review the factory’s performance and organization to ensure the quality level meets your requirements.

A Technical Audit is a thorough verification of a supplier’s manufacturing processes and quality control systems to provide confidence that your standards will be met or that any shortfalls will be resolved.

Technical Audits With RK Associates

Our Technical Audit is an independent and robust assessment to verify your supplier’s (or potential supplier’s) capabilities. The checklist can be tailored to your particular industry or product, with our specialist auditors providing an overall score to represent the real level of risk in your supplier.

The scope of a RK Associates Technical Audit may cover but not confined to:

• Basic factory profile
• Quality management system – factory’s quality manual, planning and management review
• Resources management – human resources, purchasing and control of measurement devices
• Stock management – storage of incoming materials, in-process and finished products
• Incoming material inspection
• Production processes – workshop organization, quality control during products
• Packing and quality control processes before shipment – packing line organization, quality control before shipment
• Measurement, analysis and improvement – factory internal audits, data management
• Any other specific instructions from the client

Findings are collated in a comprehensive report and a correct action plan is provided to prioritize the most important follow-up actions for the factory’s improvement. 

Third Party Quality Auditing Services:

A third-party audit occurs when a company has decided that they want to create a quality management system (QMS) that conforms to a standard set of requirements, such as ISO 9001, and hire an independent company to perform an audit to verify that the company has succeeded in this endeavour.