This is a service designed to save suppliers placing a full-time engineer on to the customer’s launch team during the ramp up to the start of series production. The QLS engineer supports the timing and quality of pre- and approved-production parts at the customer manufacturing location and deals with any customer problems, acting as a member of the supplier’s team.
 

Once production has commenced, the QLS Launch Engineer becomes a Liaison Engineer and maintains the supplier’s corporate profile, liaising with all departments at the plant and dealing with any customer issues, feeding queries and solutions between supplier and customer.
 

The Liaison Engineer also organises Inspection of suspect material and can arrange any reworks, needed to minimise stock loss. Rework of faulty components can be performed to client instructions at the nearby QLS Quality or Activity Centre.
 

Major containment actions can be performed at upstream suppliers to provide you with controlled shipping of warranted material when you need it. Actions are taken in accordance with tight specifications, and are in place until your supplier conforms.
 

To meet the reducing customer inventory and increasing stock security and delivery demands of its clients and their customers, QLS offers manufacturers a bonded warehousing and pre-delivery inspection and JIT delivery service. In these days of global supply chains and distances, this is a particularly sought after support activity for users of high-tech products and their suppliers.
 

Strategically located to provide key suppliers with support where and when they need it, the QLS activities include Warehousing and Storage, JIT Logistics, Component Sub Assembly, Rework, Recycling and Salvage, Functional Testing and Obsolescence Control. With facilities to support in-depth product analysis either by our own or visiting engineers, the QLS Activity Centres can provide custom designed services to all manufacturers.