A Full Service Rotational Molding Facility

The Quality function at AKRO/NBP Plastics is to assure that business operations and manufactured products best serve the customer-supplier relationship. The Quality Director therefore reports directly to the business owner, so that Quality issues may interface upon an equal standing with all other departments in the company.

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QUALITY in PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Quality plays an active role in the development of new products by associating design intentions with historically qualified manufacturing process capabilities.

QUALITY in PURCHASING
Incoming materials, for example, are purchased from approved suppliers capable of providing AKRO with sufficient quality documentation to verify conformance with requirements of the purchase contract.

QUALITY in the CONTROL OF CUSTOMER SUPPLIED PRODUCT
Quality products and manufacturing efficiencies are directly related to the condition of tooling. Documented procedures are therefore in place to control the verification, storage, maintenance and modification of customer owned molds that are in the care of AKRO/NBP Plastics.

QUALITY in PRODUCTION
Manufacturing procedures are created by the Quality department and distributed to the shop floor electronically—we’re paperless. Procedures are therefore designed as living documents, which are quickly updated with corrective actions and preventive measures in an environment of continuous improvement—by design.

QUALITY in EDUCATION / PERSONNEL
New employees are to receive introductions to rotational molding with quality and safety as the focus. The development of the knowledge base then becomes continuous, enhanced with use of several modern information transfer systems.

QUALITY in QUALITY
The Cost of Quality is measured and published in house daily. This index identifies how well we are meeting our objective to assure that business operations and products best serve the customer-supplier relationship.

All products run at Akro Plastics and New Berlin have finishing criteria, assembly criteria, and dimensional criteria documents. These documents all come from the quality assurance department.

At left are three samples of these documents. Samples 1 and 2 are dimensional criteria documents. These allow for any employee to check for quality as the parts are being made. Every phase of a product has quality checks, so any problems can be caught at their source, eliminating multiple scrap parts.

At left is a sample of a quality alert document. Any time an issue may arise as to the quality of a part, a quality alert document is posted at the machines, and in the finishing areas involved. This makes each employee aware of what to be looking for, as well as their usual quality checks.

Our quality department continually runs lab tests for flow, impact tests, and tests to check for wall thickness. When neccessary, pressure tests with either air or water can be done also to check for leaking.

Akro-Plastics and New Berlin Plastics are committed to giving the best quality possible in every product we produce.