Manufacturing Quality Solutions
Harford Quality Solutions help manufacturers to reduce operational risks, improve product quality and minimise batch rejections and product recalls. Our integrated manufacturing quality control solutions encompass production quality, materials and process quality.
Production & Manufacturing Quality Solutions
Harford Quality Solutions provide end-to-end solutions for manufacturing quality control. We understand the paramount importance of production quality and materials/process quality in satisfying retailers’ requirements and meeting industry standards.
Harford Quality Solutions address the challenges faced by businesses across various industries, including reducing operational risks, ensuring quality compliance, reducing batch rejections and product recalls, as well as improving effectiveness.
Who We Have Helped
Decades of Manufacturing Quality Expertise
The development of our quality module started more than 60 years ago, following in the footsteps of Edwards Deming, Walter Shewart and Kaoru Ishikawa, who started the shift away from heavily manual quality inspection towards Right First Time Quality Assurance and developed tools such as Shewart Charts and Statistical Process Control, together with Fishbone Diagrams.
Today, the Harford Quality Solution is unquestionably the most comprehensive manufacturing quality system available to manufacturers. Our paperless factory solution combines decades of experience with continuous improvement, heavily influenced by user input from FMCG, food and beverage, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and chemical manufacturers.
Improved Quality Control for Manufacturing Teams
Harford Quality Solutions help manufacturers to ensure product safety and quality compliance with real-time visibility on the shop floor. Our Quality Management System combines quality control software and solutions, quality assurance and error-proofing to improve manufacturing quality consistency.
Our aim is to help you get it Right First Time, Every Time! We aim to empower your operators with scheduled quality checks in manufacturing, together with instant verification and corrective action advice. Leaders are provided with exception notifications, a fully traceable audit trail, and real-time reports.
Improve Production Quality and Operational Consistency
Harford’s manufacturing quality solutions help manufacturers:
- Reduce production defects
- Improve production consistency
- Strengthen manufacturing quality management processes
- Increase operational visibility across production environments
- Reduce manual quality management procedures
- Improve traceability across manufacturing operations
- Support audit readiness and operational quality standards
- Improve process control across manufacturing environments
Production Quality
Real-time production quality solutions designed to reduce defects, improve consistency and strengthen operational quality control.
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Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
Integrated laboratory quality management solutions for improved traceability, compliance and operational visibility.
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Paperless Quality Management
Digital quality workflows designed to reduce paperwork, improve compliance and strengthen audit readiness.
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Production Traceability
End-to-end manufacturing traceability solutions designed to improve visibility, compliance and product tracking.
Materials & Process Quality
Integrated materials and process quality solutions designed to improve production consistency and operational quality management.
Improve Manufacturing Quality Across Your Production Processes
Discover how Harford’s manufacturing quality solutions help reduce defects, improve production consistency, strengthen quality management, and increase operational visibility across your manufacturing operations.
FAQs
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What is quality control in manufacturing?
Quality control in manufacturing refers to the processes and activities implemented to ensure that products meet the desired quality standards. It involves monitoring and inspecting raw materials, components, and finished goods, as well as implementing quality assurance measures throughout the production process. In short, the purpose of quality is to ensure that goods go out and stay out and the only returns are satisfied customers asking for more.
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Why is quality control important in manufacturing?
Quality control is important in manufacturing to ensure that products are safe, reliable, and meet customer expectations. It helps prevent defects, reduces rework and waste, improves customer satisfaction, protects brand reputation, and ensures compliance with industry regulations and standards, whilst reducing manufacturing costs.
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What are the main components of a quality control system in manufacturing?
A quality control system in manufacturing typically includes quality planning, quality inspections and testing, process control, corrective and preventive actions, documentation and record-keeping, supplier quality management, and continuous improvement initiatives.
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How does quality control help in identifying and addressing defects?
Quality control uses various inspection techniques, such as visual inspections, measurements, and testing, statistical process control, to identify defects or deviations from quality standards. By detecting and addressing these issues early, quality control minimises the production of defective products, reduces waste, and improves overall product quality. It may also be desirable to use vision inspection for quality control purposes.
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35 Harford Street
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BA14 7HL
Harford Control Ltd is a company registered in England with Company Number 1207483. VAT No. GB 140 2121 39.