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SteelWoman
If I purchase material from say Supplier X and I require him to supply me with the mechanical/chemical specs (ie, chemistry report and tensile results) with the delivered material, it is my understanding that I have to have some kind of "verification" process set up to verify that the material I receive truly IS what my supplier says it is. I've always thought that meant that we have to have a way to verify the mechanical/chem results, right?
WHAT IF you have no in-house lab? Does that only leave you with having to do occasional "verifications" through an outside lab, or maybe an "inside" lab at another division? Can I "certify" the material that I supply to my customer using the results supplied to me from my supplier ONLY, without me having to re-test it to verify their results? I can't "inspect" the material to verify it meets chem/mechanical specs, obviously, so it seems to me that I can ONLY verify using another lab somewhere, right? I do see the "out" in the standard about using a lab that is "acceptable to the customer." My question is speculative - we actually have an inhouse lab, but I'm having a philisophical discussion with someone about this point who has been around steel since it's inception (!) and he says it is "common practice" to "certify" material to a customer based solely on the results supplied to you by your supplier. I'm thinking the standard doesn't allow that without some kind of verification process?
WHAT IF you have no in-house lab? Does that only leave you with having to do occasional "verifications" through an outside lab, or maybe an "inside" lab at another division? Can I "certify" the material that I supply to my customer using the results supplied to me from my supplier ONLY, without me having to re-test it to verify their results? I can't "inspect" the material to verify it meets chem/mechanical specs, obviously, so it seems to me that I can ONLY verify using another lab somewhere, right? I do see the "out" in the standard about using a lab that is "acceptable to the customer." My question is speculative - we actually have an inhouse lab, but I'm having a philisophical discussion with someone about this point who has been around steel since it's inception (!) and he says it is "common practice" to "certify" material to a customer based solely on the results supplied to you by your supplier. I'm thinking the standard doesn't allow that without some kind of verification process?