The semi conductor supplement to the ISO/TS 16949 states in 7.3.3.2S
"PFMEAs shall consider processes from incoming material receipt to shipping and warehousing. Mistake proofing tools shall be used to prevent mixed material, wrong labeling and other common shipping,
logistics and storage errors."

Does this mean we need to ahve a PFMEA for shipping, material receipt and warehousing or can we just lump it all into one PFMEA called incoming material or material control process? What do you think?

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qualityboi - I moved your thread to this forum so our FMEA gurus might better "find" it and help out.

I don't have a copy of the semi conductor supplement but the verbage sounds awfully close to what needs to/should be followed with any other PFMEA. In my view, it is up to you whether you have a separate PFMEA for each processing step that can produce a Failure Mode, or you can have a "flowing" PFMEA which covers each step from receipt of raw materials to shipping. If you were to go with the "individual" PFMEA scenario, you might have 10 (whatever the end number is) separate PFMEAs for any given product line. That call is entirely up to your organization.

qualityboi - I moved your thread to this forum so our FMEA gurus might better "find" it and help out.

I don't have a copy of the semi conductor supplement but the verbage sounds awfully close to what needs to/should be followed with any other PFMEA. In my view, it is up to you whether you have a separate PFMEA for each processing step that can produce a Failure Mode, or you can have a "flowing" PFMEA which covers each step from receipt of raw materials to shipping. If you were to go with the "individual" PFMEA scenario, you might have 10 (whatever the end number is) separate PFMEAs for any given product line. That call is entirely up to your organization.

Hi Bill,

I've attached the supplement for your review and advice since you're the FMEA guru of this part of the world.....:biglaugh:

The supplement can be downloaded from the AEC website as well. Since the content does not mentioned any copyright, so I would presume it's safe to post it here....

I agree I think a flowing would be more achievable.

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