In the last month or so at my Internship at Paramount Metal Finishings I have learned some about Quality Control. The company I intern for is not a medical device company however applications can be applied. The company takes military equipment and coats them with various solvents to make them rust resistant. So let say we do get rust on the parts what do we do? Well we have Quality Control come to us and tell us that such an such parts have rust. We ask questions like did they get dried off completely in the oven? Were they exposed to humidity or water before being coated? These are questions which can be answered by the platers that work on the line. Now another issues can be on the chemistry side. Is the concentration of the various tanks within “spec range” ? Did some add something to lower the concentration in the tank or opposite? In general, quality control comes to the chemical lab to ask us questions since we typical have the answer. In order to validate these questions we will take a small load of parts to run an analysis on them while other parts are being done.