Inspection
Your benefits at a glance
- Ensure sustained product quality throughout the entire process
- Minimise business risks and costs through timely corrective actions and improvements
- Meet buyer specifications
- Deliver consistent quality in material safety and durability
- Ensure goods arrive as per ordered
End-to-end monitoring along the value chain
Corporate buyers and consumers need to be confident that the goods received are delivered to their quality and performance specifications. TÜV SÜD’s inspection solutions can go a long way towards minimising inadvertent risks.
Our qualified team of highly trained and specialised inspection professionals can monitor the entire supply chain, from raw materials to final production. We can also monitor the transportation of products from pre-shipment right up to the final retail point.
Our services at a glance
Besides ensuring the quality of raw materials and production processes, TÜV SÜD’s inspection team can also monitor the transit and transportation of product on shipment to the client. We inspect containers for cleanliness and suitability besides checking consignments to ensure that they conform to the client’s specifications.
We can also perform an additional inspection on shipments to verify that they correspond to the quantity, size and colour on the packing list. This additional checkpoint can help avoid costly shipping mistakes and misrouted consignments.
Source inspection
Assist in appraising suppliers' internal quality assurance and help to ensure that suppliers are able to meet customers' requirements and reduce the risk of delays or failures.
Product check programme
The product check service is a comprehensive quality assurance and inspection programme for customers' suppliers. We performs supplier product qualification, audits, due diligence and performance monitoring. This enables alignment between suppliers and customers' requirements. We will customise a programme to suit customers' needs, leading to improved supplier performance, cost-effective management and supplier compliance to national or international quality and safety standards.
Pre-shipment inspection
This involves the inspection of goods and commodities, for quality, quantity and condition at the suppliers' end, against the required standards. Our experts are highly skilled in risk mitigation, providing the balance between cost and protection.
Agency inspection scheme
Many overseas certification bodies or customers require factory inspections as an endorsement of the quality and safety of their manufacturing processes. We are able to perform factory inspections assigned by worldwide certification bodies. Inspections can be performed on factories in Singapore or in Asia Pacific.
Outturn/arrival inspection
The detailed examination of goods and products which are received in damaged or pilfered conditions can be used to support legal or insurance claims. Our laboratories offer a full investigation service for damaged or defective products, including expert witness support or research and recommendations for remedial actions.
On-site investigation and process/production research
We offer an integrated service to help local and regional manufacturers solve production problems, carry out failure analysis, support quality control or development testing, improving productivity and product quality and safety to provide a greater competitive advantage.
Industry application
Our testing; inspection and technical support services can be packaged for specific key industry sectors such as:
- ASEAN Seafood Quality Supervision
- Food industry services, including food monitoring for hotels, restaurants and food outlets
- Pharmaceutical supply chain and packaging / PS 9000
- Technical and analytical support for the refinery and petrochemical sectors
- Oilfield equipment services
- Marine fuel control
- Lube oil condition monitoring for vehicles, machinery, compressors and hydraulic systems
- Paint and coatings services
Outsourced/contracted quality control
Equipped with extensive capabilities and highly skilled experts, we have a recognisable reputation for valid test results and client confidentiality that ensures full confidence in the contracted testing services
The final quality check for any toy is at the retail point. Here, TÜV SÜD’s “Anonymous Mystery Shopper” inspectors take random or pre-designated samples of products on shelves to conduct various toxicity and mechanical tests on the product, thus ensuring that they meet the same requirements as they did in our laboratories.
Hygiene Inspection
We conduct food safety inspections with regard to personnel hygiene, building and equipment sanitation, as well as food handling as well as process audits with regard to all processes in the production areas like food production, equipment, bonded and non-bonded stores, dispatch and transport.
Quality inspections ensure that products meet the specific requirements of their designs. Our inspection services can verify the quality and quantity of the materials while ensuring that the packaging conforms to the buyers’ requirements.
TÜV SÜD can also monitor the production process itself. These onsite inspections are performed at production sites and suppliers’ premises according to the sampling procedures described in NSI / ASQ Z.1.4 – 2003, BS 6001 (AQL), NFX 06-022, ISO 2859- 1:1999 and DIN 40.080.
- Initial Production Checks (IPC):When 5-10% goods are produced (subject to minimum 50 pieces), inspectors conduct visual and functional checks to verify the quality of the product at the beginning of the production cycle as per client's specifications and reference sample.
- During Production Checks (DUPRO): Inspectors conduct checks to verify the quality of components, materials and finished products when the production cycle is about 30 to 40% complete (subject to a minimum of 50 pieces) and product packing has started.
- Final Random Inspections (FRI):Inspectors perform a comprehensive inspection of the quality, quantity and packaging conformity as per internationally accepted random sampling practices of a completely packed shipment.
Besides ensuring the quality of raw materials and production processes, TÜV SÜD’s inspection team can also monitor the transit and transportation of product on shipment to the client. We inspect containers for cleanliness and suitability besides checking consignments to ensure that they conform to the client’s specifications.
We can also perform an additional inspection on shipments to verify that they correspond to the quantity, size and colour on the packing list. This additional checkpoint can help avoid costly shipping mistakes and misrouted consignments.
Source inspection
Assist in appraising suppliers' internal quality assurance and help to ensure that suppliers are able to meet customers' requirements and reduce the risk of delays or failures.
Product check programme
The product check service is a comprehensive quality assurance and inspection programme for customers' suppliers. We performs supplier product qualification, audits, due diligence and performance monitoring. This enables alignment between suppliers and customers' requirements. We will customise a programme to suit customers' needs, leading to improved supplier performance, cost-effective management and supplier compliance to national or international quality and safety standards.
Pre-shipment inspection
This involves the inspection of goods and commodities, for quality, quantity and condition at the suppliers' end, against the required standards. Our experts are highly skilled in risk mitigation, providing the balance between cost and protection.
Agency inspection scheme
Many overseas certification bodies or customers require factory inspections as an endorsement of the quality and safety of their manufacturing processes. We are able to perform factory inspections assigned by worldwide certification bodies. Inspections can be performed on factories in Singapore or in Asia Pacific.
Outturn/arrival inspection
The detailed examination of goods and products which are received in damaged or pilfered conditions can be used to support legal or insurance claims. Our laboratories offer a full investigation service for damaged or defective products, including expert witness support or research and recommendations for remedial actions.
On-site investigation and process/production research
We offer an integrated service to help local and regional manufacturers solve production problems, carry out failure analysis, support quality control or development testing, improving productivity and product quality and safety to provide a greater competitive advantage.
Industry application
Our testing; inspection and technical support services can be packaged for specific key industry sectors such as:
- ASEAN Seafood Quality Supervision
- Food industry services, including food monitoring for hotels, restaurants and food outlets
- Pharmaceutical supply chain and packaging / PS 9000
- Technical and analytical support for the refinery and petrochemical sectors
- Oilfield equipment services
- Marine fuel control
- Lube oil condition monitoring for vehicles, machinery, compressors and hydraulic systems
- Paint and coatings services
Outsourced/contracted quality control
Equipped with extensive capabilities and highly skilled experts, we have a recognisable reputation for valid test results and client confidentiality that ensures full confidence in the contracted testing services
The final quality check for any toy is at the retail point. Here, TÜV SÜD’s “Anonymous Mystery Shopper” inspectors take random or pre-designated samples of products on shelves to conduct various toxicity and mechanical tests on the product, thus ensuring that they meet the same requirements as they did in our laboratories.
Hygiene Inspection
We conduct food safety inspections with regard to personnel hygiene, building and equipment sanitation, as well as food handling as well as process audits with regard to all processes in the production areas like food production, equipment, bonded and non-bonded stores, dispatch and transport.
Quality inspections ensure that products meet the specific requirements of their designs. Our inspection services can verify the quality and quantity of the materials while ensuring that the packaging conforms to the buyers’ requirements.
TÜV SÜD can also monitor the production process itself. These onsite inspections are performed at production sites and suppliers’ premises according to the sampling procedures described in NSI / ASQ Z.1.4 – 2003, BS 6001 (AQL), NFX 06-022, ISO 2859- 1:1999 and DIN 40.080.
- Initial Production Checks (IPC):When 5-10% goods are produced (subject to minimum 50 pieces), inspectors conduct visual and functional checks to verify the quality of the product at the beginning of the production cycle as per client's specifications and reference sample.
- During Production Checks (DUPRO): Inspectors conduct checks to verify the quality of components, materials and finished products when the production cycle is about 30 to 40% complete (subject to a minimum of 50 pieces) and product packing has started.
- Final Random Inspections (FRI):Inspectors perform a comprehensive inspection of the quality, quantity and packaging conformity as per internationally accepted random sampling practices of a completely packed shipment.