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Visual Inspections Have Positive Impact
At our plant we deal with many different part numbers each day and have about ten changeovers per day in each assembly cell. In order to reduce **pass-through supplier defects** in this complicated environment, the line operator does a visual inspection of end housings before the start of production. During these inspections, the operator looks for burrs, knocks and malformed threads – in particular, they look for the thread form, depth and drilling breakthrough that may leave burrs in the volute on turbine housings. While the visual inspection does not catch 100% of the defects, it does identify a number of **supplier pass-through defects** and has had a positive impact on our customer PPM numbers.