What it is
AQL (acceptable quality limit) is a statistical sampling standard for inspecting production batches: how many units to inspect and how many defects of each severity are tolerable before rejecting the batch.
Using it
Rather than "check everything", agree an AQL level and defect classification (critical/major/minor) in advance. It makes inspection results objective instead of a negotiation after the fact.
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