The key to Kerox’ outstanding reputation is its multi-stage quality control system that tracks each product through the entire production process. This includes in-house produced ceramic disks, injection molded plastics and outsourced metal components.
These demanding stages include:
- Thorough inspection and press trials of mold tooling before production approval.
- Tooling maintenance – on-going monitoring of the condition of tooling to guard against possible degradation of quality. Tooling is kept in first-rate condition at all times.
- Measurement of outsourced cartridge components (primarily metal).
- 100% ceramic disk analysis using an Automatic Optical Inspection (AOI) system, providing exacting analysis of all surfaces, edges and main dimensions.
- Process Control techniques are used throughout the manufacturing processes to carefully monitor and keep under control such ceramic disk characteristics as surface roughness, flatness and contact surface area ratio.
- Testing of individual components prior to assembly.
- Testing at sub-assembly stages.
- Final testing of fully-assembled cartridges (100% using highly sensitive pneumatic procedure).
- Laboratory water test sampling.