Below, in general order of occurrence, the quality control activities are outlined showing the primary Trinity Operating Procedure (TOP) associated with each activity.

1. Quality control of raw materials.

• Inspection of incoming bar stock. See TOP-RECRM
• Inspection of other incoming materials. See TOP-RECOM

2. Quality control during production.

• Quality control steps prior to forging. See TOP-PREQC
• Quality control steps directly associated with forging. See TOP-PROQC
• Quality control steps after forging, including 100% visual inspection and final inspection AQL of entire lot. See TOP-POSQC
• Quality control steps associated with machining. See TOP-MOPQC
• Foreign object prevention and other flight and nuclear safety concerns. See TOP-FLFLG

3. Control of nonconformance.

• Raw material nonconformance. See TOP-RMNON
• Product nonconformance. See TOP-NOCON
• Customer returns. See TOP-RTRNS
• Recall of product. See TOP-RCALL

Our quality control activities depend heavily upon our measuring instrument management activities. See Section 6 of TOP-RMGMT

Please be aware that quality control is only one aspect of Trinity Forge’s quality system. For a look at the full system see Trinity Forge & Machine Quality Manual.