HARDLINES

Leading Quality Consultancy’s global team includes quality professionals specializing in the hardlines (hard goods) industry. With local knowledge, industry-specific training and hands-on experience, we provide solutions that help reduce cost and ensure the quality and timely delivery of your purchase orders.

With over two decades of experience, we offer expertise in a wide range of hardlines categories. Examples include:

• Hardware

• Furniture

• Gifts & Premiums

• Home & Garden

• Sporting Equipment & Fitness

Manufacturers, distributors and retailers of hardgoods face increasingly demanding requirements from both customers and regulators.

We offer a full range of inspection, testing and training services that can be shaped to meet your specific needs.

Our aim is always to get your products to market as quickly as possible while ensuring that they meet the safety, quality and performance requirements of applicable legislation or required by your own quality assurance plan.

Safety requirements for hardgoods have been strengthened worldwide. Leading Quality Consultancy offers a full range of quality assurance services to ensure that your products are of the highest standard and comply with regulations wherever in the world you wish to bring them to market.

Give your organization a competitive edge by making sure it is one of the many businesses benefiting from the decades of experience and expertise that we have acquired in the fields of hardlines.

We provide the following quality solutions: 

Factory (Supplier) Audits

Whether you’re evaluating new partners, or focused on continuous improvement with existing suppliers, Leading Quality Consultancy’s auditors provide timely, detailed feedback regarding process and capability. Our audit reports provide critical insight useful for decision-making.

• Initial Supplier Evaluations
• Modify Quality Management System Audits
• C-TPAT – Security Audits
• Manufacturing Process Audits

Product Inspections

Leading Quality Consultancy’s quality engineers leverage their experience and use client-specific product specifications to evaluate orders on-site. Depending on our clients’ needs, we use ANSI Z1.4 sampling to perform pre-production, in-process and pre-shipment quality inspections. 

A QC inspection of hardlines products typically includes:

• Quantity Verification
• Visual / Workmanship Evaluation
• Functional & Safety Evaluation (Hardware function, Measurement and Assembly, Etc.)
• Packaging Integrity Evaluation (ISTA Drop-Test)
• Labeling Verification