Quality Control
All principals of CSI have managed manufacturing businesses and have Asian sourcing expertise. Our outstanding results come from many years of practical experience in manufacturing and outsourcing.
CSI engages ISO 9000 and QS 9000 certified vendors and insists upon vendors committing in-house engineering resources to CSI. All vendors are visited periodically to insure our stringent quality standards are met and our customers’ specific quality expectations are satisfied.
Lean Manufacturing and Strategic Sourcing™
Lean Manufacturing is an overall methodology that seeks to minimize the resources required for production by eliminating waste (non-value added activities) that inflate costs, lead times and inventory requirements, and emphasizing the use of preventive maintenance, quality improvement programs, pull systems and flexible work forces and production facilities. The principals of CSI have hands-on experience in implementing Lean manufacturing improvements and we work with our customers to insure that we manufacture, ship and deliver goods in the manner which best satisfies customer's individual plant flow. In our experience, Supply chain management, logistics infrastructure, material flow strategy are all industry jargon describing the same process, the movement of commodities from the point of manufacture to the next point of use in the most efficient manner possible while satisfying the customer's requirements. We have adopted a Total Systems Cost approach to assist customers in selecting the most appropriate method of sourcing components.
Within this model we take into account the location of the supplier, the supplier's expertise and technical capabilities, transportation costs, containerization requirements and point of use delivery requirements. The purpose of this exercise is to ensure the supply chain is cost effective and fits into our customer's objectives for Lean. Once this road map, or part plan, has been determined it is dissected and the various areas of responsibility and CSI's team executes their particular piece of the chain. This enables us to successfully marry outsourced component manufacturing with true Lean Manufacturing concepts. This is a key component of CSI's Strategic Sourcing™ process.
Our warehousing facilities allow JIT delivery to customers, and we remain flexible in establishing new warehouse facilities to suit special customer requirements.
Corporate Responsibility
A variety of terms are used, sometimes interchangeably, to talk about corporate social responsibility (CSR): business ethics, corporate citizenship, corporate accountability, sustainability. CSI believes it is our responsibility to conduct business in a manner which honors our values, our customers’ values, and the world. We have adapted Business for Social Responsibilities’ (BSR) definition of corporate responsibility:
CSI strives to achieve commercial success in ways that honor ethical values and respect people, communities, and the natural environment.
Please click here to view our Code of Conduct which we require our vendors to adhere to. We also support the principles of the Global Compact http://www.unglobalcompact.org, as well as www.netimpact.org, and www.svn.org.
Vendor Certification Commitment
CSI engages ISO 9000 and QS 9000 certified vendors and insists upon vendors committing in-house engineering resources to CSI. All vendors are visited periodically to insure our stringent quality standards are met and our customers' specific quality expectations are satisfied.
CSI qualifies vendors after a lengthy review process which consists of the following:
- Customer references
- Equipment list and review
- Capacity analysis
- Quality systems analysis
- Financial health
- On-site inspection - product quality
- On-site inspection - working conditions, environmental responsibility.