TPT March 2015

Inspection, testing and quality control

Only the forming process itself comes in for more attention from the tubemaker than inspection, testing and quality control. These procedures that guarantee the integrity of the product make up a tight-knit peer group. A workpiece that does not meet the objective determinants of any one of them fails them all.

The three specialities were put in place early. Possibly consideration should be given to updating the term quality control to quality enhancement. Control has been baked into the science of tubemaking for a long time.

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