You’ll Receive Only The Highest Quality Castings
We’ve developed a thorough quality assurance process to ensure the castings you receive will be strong and high quality. We adhere to Lean Manufacturing Principles, and constantly improve our processes as an ongoing effort to reduce waste, increase quality, and deliver castings in the most economical way. As a result, our quality program begins with the end in mind.
Quality Management System
Lodi Iron Works is constantly working to provide you with a product that meets your requirements fully, and also lives up to the strict guidelines of our quality management system which is based on the requirements of ISO 9001. No job is too small for us when it comes to quality control and assurance.
The Lodi Quality Control Department conducts a broad spectrum of laboratory tests to ensure the quality of our sand system. This includes methylene blue, green compression strength, moisture, compactability, loss on ignition, hardness, etc. Dimensional inspection of first article castings is performed to validate the pattern. Brinell Hardness Testing is a regular feature of our Quality Inspection. Quality assurance also checks the chemical composition of each heat of metal using our in-house spectrometer.
To learn more about this process, view our supplier purchase order quality clauses.