184 Quality Assurance
• Companies and organizations need to inspect a nished product
immediately before shipment.
• Companies and organizations need to examine and ensure that the
conformance of subassemblies, which may be obscured and impos-
sible to inspect, subsequently are thoroughly examined.
• Organizations need to inspect a rst production piece to check for
compliance with engineering drawings.
• Organizations intend to inspect castings, forgings, and machined
parts in order to prove tooling before embarking on production runs.
Some of the benets of source inspection audit are
• Enables the reviewing of the supplier’s processing records to estab-
lish all plant manufacturing, inspection, and test operations have
been carried out and ...