How We Define a Quality Inspection: Our Negative Review Criteria
What makes an inspection 'good'? We wrote it down. Our negative review criteria score five dimensions of every inspection, so quality is measured — not just cla

Quality must be measurable

Every inspection company says its inspectors are quality-conscious. QCANT goes further: we wrote down what 'good' means, dimension by dimension, so performance can be measured and improved — and so clients can see exactly what standard we hold ourselves to.

The five dimensions

Every inspection is evaluated on five dimensions:

  • Service attitude — responsiveness, communication and professionalism with the factory and the client;
  • Service professionalism — following check points, verifying documents, judging defects correctly, keeping samples under control;
  • Photo quality — original photos, correct insertion, naming, orientation and clarity;
  • Report quality — accurate AQL, correct templates, consistent conclusions, complete data;
  • Check-in compliance — photos taken at the real scene, with the right person and the right products.

Three severity levels

Each dimension is scored at three levels:

  • Critical — integrity issues, wrong conclusions, fabricated photos, unsubmitted reports;
  • Major — late reports, unclear photos, missing tests, misapplied standards;
  • Minor — naming or layout issues that do not change the conclusion.

Critical findings in particular carry serious consequences under our Reward & Penalty Policy — up to account freezing for integrity-related failures.

Why we publish this

Transparency is a quality control tool. When clients can see the standard, when inspectors know they are measured against it, and when management acts on the scores — quality stops being a slogan and becomes a system.

Our complete criteria are published in our quality policy library in preview mode.

Preview our quality policies (EN / 中文) →

QCANT — Independent quality inspection & auditing in China. Contact us: cs@QCANT.com.

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