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lrowe
I am in the middle of helping my company compile their first Design and Development process (We are ISO 9001:2000 but were exempt from D&D until now) and an interesting scenario has come up. We probably send out 20 samples of our product a month and of those maybe 2 will lead to a production level order. The samples that are I feel should invoke the D & D process are ones that are some variation of existing product that the customer wants to "Try Out" to see if it is a good fit for their product. How do I avoid having to do a design review, verification, and validation for every sample sent out since we won't know ahead of time if it will truly lead to a new product? If we had to do the full D & D every time we sent a sample we would be bogged down big time in meetings and paperwork.
Thanks
Larry
Thanks
Larry