3 Critical Quality Assurance Procedures To Demand
From All Of Your Manufacturers…
Do Yours Do These?

• Life-Cycle Testing Performed On One Unit In Each 500-Unit Lot
• All Vendors Have Dock-To-Stock Status
• Each Flood Control Unit Is 100% Tested At Factory

Life Cycle Testing:

Life cycle (on/off) testing is performed on 1 FloodMaster unit in each 500-unit lot during manufacturing. 1000 units have already been cycled on/off over 40,000 times, without failures. The sensor is predicted by its manufacturer to achieve 500,000 cycles without failures. The valve has an estimated life cycle between 100,000 and 150,000 cycles.

In addition to the continuous life-cycle testing of one unit per each 500-unit lot, the FloodMaster valve has been designed so that end-users' may test the valve in-service, as often as desired and at any time.

This is important to you because some competing products are not capable of being tested because they were designed for a single use. If they can be used only once, they cannot be tested – ever. Since they cannot be tested, the end-user must rely on the design, not subsequent testing to ensure that the device performs its stated function when its installed.

Dock-to-Stock Status & 0% Critical Deviation Certification:

Floodmaster uses only vendors who have earned dock to stock status. These vendors have delivered products that have produced less than 0.5% (one-half percent) specification deviations deemed to be non-critical . These same vendors delivered products that had 0% (zero percent) deviation from the specifications for critical specifications. One failure of a critical specification knocks them out of dock to stock status and they no longer remain vendors of Floodmaster.

This is important to you because the industry standard is 1-2% failures allowed at vendor level. FloodMaster's allowable failures are much lower (0% and 0.5%).

100% Testing At Factory:

100% functional testing of all FloodMaster units is performed during manufacturing, prior to shipping – including a water no-leak test on 100% of the units. The water no-leak test is a test of the ability of the unit to hold back water in the valve when the system has detected a leak and standard water pressure is applied to the incoming (cold) water pipe.

This is important for you to understand because the industry standard for functional testing at the factory is “some random testing”. Additionally, some products cannot be tested at all because they were designed to be used only once and cannot be used again – hence, they cannot be tested. Every Floodmaster unit is tested at the factory prior to shipping.