Skip-Lot and Reduced Sampling Programmes
topic
Skip-lot sampling programmes inspect only a fraction of submitted lots from suppliers with sustained acceptable quality history, reducing inspection frequency by half or more while maintaining statistical protection through automatic reversion to normal inspection upon quality deterioration; reduced inspection applies smaller sample sizes after demonstrated process consistency under normal inspection.
Role
Reduces total inspection resource requirements for consistently performing textile suppliers while maintaining statistical protection, enabling quality management resources to be concentrated on new suppliers, new products, and suppliers with recent quality problems rather than applying uniform inspection intensity regardless of demonstrated performance.