A desk-audit and on-site checklist adapted to jewelry manufacturing: the questions that separate real factories from traders with a showroom, and the bench-level checks that reveal quality culture before you place a trial order.
Coverage: business licence verification, plating house identity, equipment walk-through by process (casting, setting, plating, polishing, QC), in-process controls, metal weight reconciliation, test report culture, and the social-compliance basics EU and US retailers increasingly request.
Score each item pass, partial or fail; the checklist flags the five items where a partial score should stop the programme.
