The quality department supporting plastic production plays a very important role in the company. The highly skilled employees in this department are responsible for preparing all quality and packing instructions, production release sheets and quality control sheets. They perform the start up control (production release) when production begins and then at least every morning after the A-service of the tool. 

As production lots come from the machines, they control the running of production (Quality Control) usually based on the AQL level agreed with the customer. They conduct visual inspections and measurements specified in the Quality Instructions, as agreed with our customers. Where necessary, they also perform more specialised tests, e.g. on equipment provided by the customer. The department also supports validations with controls and documentation.

The quality department is equipped with several microscopes and a fully automatic optical and tactical measuring machine, which works especially well for repeated measurements during quality controls of start-up and running production. In addition, the department uses hand measuring equipment, a light table, several weights, etc.

Our focus is to reduce the amount of scrap during production and to ensure the correct quality level of products delivered to our customers. We work with three main tracks: first, monitoring the production as it happened by checking samples from startup and running production. Second, preventive maintenance actions, where every production has its own plan for maintenance and service. Third, separation of cavities during robot takeout, and never mixing parts from different cavities or production periods, so that defective parts can easily be contained and the amount of scrap is minimised if a problem occurs.