{"id":22,"date":"2026-09-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/what-aql-2-5-means\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T01:00:00","slug":"what-aql-2-5-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/2026\/09\/30\/what-aql-2-5-means\/","title":{"rendered":"What AQL 2.5 actually means on your production line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-lead\">Buyers sometimes read AQL 2.5 as &quot;2.5% of my order may be defective&quot;. It is not. AQL is the acceptance limit of a statistical sampling plan defined by ISO 2859-1, and the sample size depends on your lot size and inspection level.<\/p>\n<h2>Three things to confirm<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspection level &#8211; we use General Inspection Level II unless a buyer requests another.<\/li>\n<li>The defect classification agreed before production: critical, major, minor.<\/li>\n<li>Whether the report is inline, final random, or both, and who performed it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critical defects are normally set at zero tolerance: a broken needle fragment, a missing safety component, or an incorrect care label that could cause a recall. Major defects &#8211; a broken seam, shading between panels, a measurement outside tolerance &#8211; are what the 2.5 limit governs. Minor defects get a looser limit but still have to be documented.<\/p>\n<h2>Inline versus final<\/h2>\n<p>A final random inspection tells you whether to ship. It does not prevent the problem. Our inline checks happen at 15% and 60% of the sewing run, so a measurement drift on one line is caught while there is still time to re-cut. On a 5,000-piece order that is the difference between a rework and a rejected container.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ask for the measurement sheet, not just the pass stamp. A pass without numbers is an opinion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We issue the full inspection pack per order: size-set measurements, defect photos, the AQL sampling table used, and the name of the inspector. Third-party SGS or ITS inspection is welcome and can be booked against the same sealed sample.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AQL is a sampling plan, not a defect allowance. We explain the inspection levels, the difference between critical and minor defects, and what to ask your supplier for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[21,23,22],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quality-compliance","tag-aql","tag-compliance","tag-inspection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zen.loku.cn\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}