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Hi Guys and Dolls,
I have just more or less stumbled across CQI-9 HTSA from Ford. Initially I assumed it wouldnt apply to us, as we do not run any of the processes listed in the document, but in the Ford roll-out letter it adds "brazing, annealing, sintering, and normalizing".
Its the definition of this last one that causes me to think. We have heat treatment processes for the stress-relief of bent wire parts. The process does not change the structure or composition of the material in any other way. All the other CQI-9 processes have fairly radical material changing objectives.
According to http://www.engineershandbook.com/MfgMethods/stressrelieving.htm:
"stress relieving does not change the material properties as does annealing and normalizing" which would seem to support my initial assumption but I would like to be sure.
Does CQI-9 apply?
TIA
Andrew
I have just more or less stumbled across CQI-9 HTSA from Ford. Initially I assumed it wouldnt apply to us, as we do not run any of the processes listed in the document, but in the Ford roll-out letter it adds "brazing, annealing, sintering, and normalizing".
Its the definition of this last one that causes me to think. We have heat treatment processes for the stress-relief of bent wire parts. The process does not change the structure or composition of the material in any other way. All the other CQI-9 processes have fairly radical material changing objectives.
According to http://www.engineershandbook.com/MfgMethods/stressrelieving.htm:
"stress relieving does not change the material properties as does annealing and normalizing" which would seem to support my initial assumption but I would like to be sure.
Does CQI-9 apply?
TIA
Andrew
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