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Fatigue Freddie has reason to be scared, is he going to be the scapegoat is this new load of incoming material if off-spec again. Production wants to start using it tomorrow. He knows this stuff has not been consistent, and customers have been unhappy. But he's afraid to change recipes that employ this, mainly because he has no data. He doesn't know where to start. Management is telling him there is no way to test all the runs they make so he knows this is the place to do it, when materials come in. But he's alone, there is no cooperation between production, sales, QC in feeding info into any kind of record-keeping system. His company doesn't take responsibility for product quality variations resulting from material variations.
Minimal testing: Give the shipment a new code in the recipe area of Insight-live. Enter what is known. Upload a picture of any certificates provided with it. Are all the pallets lot numbered? Record that in the notes. Are they all the same lot? Record that.
Are the pallets sequentially numbered? Test one from each lot for oversize particulate. Make a test bar also, get it/them dry (in the dehydrator) and into the kiln overnight.
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