DEMO — fictional range. Local brief only, NOT SENT. No personal data is collected or transmitted.
INSPECTION
Board varies with the weather, so dimensions have to be checked.
Corrugated board takes up and gives off water, and a case that measures correctly on Monday can be tight on Friday. Inspection for packaging is mostly about conditions rather than about the object.
Illustrative inspection checklist
- Internal dimensions
- Measured inside, not outside, and after conditioning
- Board grade
- Confirmed against the specification, with the liner named
- Score lines
- Present, straight and in the declared position
- Manufacturer joint
- Glued square and to the declared width
- Print registration
- Within the declared tolerance, on the actual board
- Colour
- Against the approved standard, not the previous delivery
- Stacking test
- On a conditioned sample, under the declared load
- Marking
- Batch identifier legible on the case or its bundle
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 internal dimensions are the ones that matter.
Because the contents go inside. A case specified by outside dimensions has an internal size that depends on the board thickness, which varies by grade and by moisture.