DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.
INSPECTION
The bond line and the pairing are the two checks.
A footwear component is inspected at the bench, because the two things that fail are the two that look fine.
Illustrative inspection checklist
- Bond line
- Continuous, with no lift at the heel or the flex point
- Pairing
- Left against right, measured rather than assumed
- Eyelet position
- Relative to the panel edge, because closing moves the reference
- Seam
- Stitch count per inch and the seam allowance, where the pattern says
- Edge finish
- The fold is even and does not open under flex
- Material
- Certificate against the grade and the thickness specified
- Weight
- Per pair, because a stack that gains weight is a different shoe
- Marking
- Batch and last revision legible on the component or its packaging
An illustrative checklist for a fictional range. A real programme defines the tolerance, the sampling method, the inspection window and the remedy if a batch fails.
The four things a programme needs in writing.
The tolerance, the sampling method, the window in which inspection happens, and what happens if the batch fails. Without all four, a failed delivery becomes an argument rather than a process.
Why weight is on the list.
Because a sole stack that gains weight has gained material somewhere, and the somewhere is usually the bond resin. It is checked because it is the cheapest signal that a process has drifted.