ABSTRACT
Product identification is much like your birth certificate. It tells you something but not everything about yourself. Product-related documents do the same thing. This is the way we identify some very basic earmarks about the product we are putting through the various processes. The part, the serial, the lot or batch numbers, all serve to identify the product. Sometime, we don’t mark the product, so we identify it on the document accompanying it. Then, we attach tags or labels to the product. We also identify the product on the Job Traveler and on the Operation Sheet. The customer does it on the Purchase Order and on the product specification. Now, we can not only match the product to its documents, but we can also trace it on the production floor, in the stockroom or even in the field. This is what product identification is all about. QOP 005 tells you how to control the process of product identification and traceability.
