I have a customer that's questioning the detection levels in our PFMEA. The PFMEA is written in German which makes it hard to decide what's reasonable. But just looking at the #'s for detection, it appears about 25% of the potential failures have a detection leve of '1'.
Our German mfg plant is TS16949 certified and has been audited quite a bit by 2nd & 3rd parties, no one has ever brought this up this problem. And the customer's engineer that's raising the issue is a PIA "nitpick things to death" type. (He's the type that should be fed chocolate before being spoken to...
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SO does it sound reasonable to have 25% of failures classified as Detection level of '1'?
(I should probably clarify we make a FLUID in bulk as opposed to making distinct widgets...)
Our German mfg plant is TS16949 certified and has been audited quite a bit by 2nd & 3rd parties, no one has ever brought this up this problem. And the customer's engineer that's raising the issue is a PIA "nitpick things to death" type. (He's the type that should be fed chocolate before being spoken to...
SO does it sound reasonable to have 25% of failures classified as Detection level of '1'?
(I should probably clarify we make a FLUID in bulk as opposed to making distinct widgets...)

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