Consistent Quality

Top Tool is committed to meeting its quality requirements and follows a strict Quality and Risk Policy:

Managing risk is essential to developing unique products for our ever-changing customer base. Top Tool encourages experimentation, use of new technologies, teamwork, creativity and invention to manage risk.

Through random review proceses, our quality objectives and risk appetite, we strive to improve in the following areas:

• Customer partnerships
• Employee opportunities
• Work environment
• Manage risk
• Quality systems
• Vendor relationships

The Quality Assurance department ensures that all facets of the production process, from incoming raw material to the shipment of the completed products, meets or exceeds the required specifications.

The department is an integrated part of every phase of the manufacturing process, from the initial review of customer requirements, through the Part Qualification Team review process, product approval, and production.

Quality Assurance Guarantee:

• Control plans
• M I P
• Process flow chart
• Incoming , First Piece, In-Process, visual, and Final Inspection
• Generation of PPAP's
• PFMEA's, Gage R&R Studies, Capability Studies

Cost Reduction

As competition in highly regulated industries continues, companies in the medical, defense, energy, electronics and other industries are under increased pressure to cut costs, improve quality and gets to market faster.

As your dedicated manufacturing partner, Top Tool is committed to investing in the best people, technology and processes including lean manufacturing programs, Six Sigma techniques and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) guidelines, to help minimize your costs while maximizing quality and expediency.

Full Lot Traceability

In the rare event of a part failure for whatever reason, it is critical to find the source of the damaged part and remove or examine other components that were made at the same time. To that end, Top Tool provides full lot traceability  to quickly and efficiently remedy any problems that have occurred and minimize the risk of incurring additional ones. Top Tool also provides lot batch controls for all orders requiring this level of control.

Lean (Continuous Process Improvement) CPI

In any business, if you sit still you fall behind. To help us achieve sustained quality and consistency, Top Tool employs Six Sigma and Lean Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) to improve the quality of output processes by identifying and removing the causes of defects (errors) and minimizing variability in manufacturing processes. Using Lean thinking, a dynamic, knowledge-driven, customer-focused process, everyone at Top Tool strives to continuously eliminate waste and expense, maximize resources and streamline operations to create a total enterprise transformation. This program clearly identifies when activities require customer involvement and approval prior to implementation.