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Do you need to distinguish them as a proto type supplier? Could you classify them as a small run job shop instead?
As for approveing them, I would use same requirements you use for other vendors. Size of the production run really has no bearing on the approval process, especially if it is a critical component of the final product.
You could approve a vendor to a product run, or you could approve them to a production process. After all ISO is really only a systematic approach to your processes. Just because a company is ISO Certified doesn't mean they make the best product. It simply means they have processes in place to improve the products they do make. Even if the vendor is approved, you still need to provide them with the specs of the job and your quality requirements/tolerances. Same holds true if the vendor is not ISO Certified, you still need to provide them with the job specs, including your quality requirements/tolerances.
No doubt you have crossed this bridge already. How did it turn out? What did you do?
As for approveing them, I would use same requirements you use for other vendors. Size of the production run really has no bearing on the approval process, especially if it is a critical component of the final product.
You could approve a vendor to a product run, or you could approve them to a production process. After all ISO is really only a systematic approach to your processes. Just because a company is ISO Certified doesn't mean they make the best product. It simply means they have processes in place to improve the products they do make. Even if the vendor is approved, you still need to provide them with the specs of the job and your quality requirements/tolerances. Same holds true if the vendor is not ISO Certified, you still need to provide them with the job specs, including your quality requirements/tolerances.
No doubt you have crossed this bridge already. How did it turn out? What did you do?
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