I (Quality Manager) and our Supply Chain Manager have a difference of opinion. We maintain a log with all of our systems/equipment that are on a preventive maintenance program. I recently discovered that a few external providers we use to conduct this maintenance are not on our ASL. My thought is that the quality and dependability of these providers should be monitored (and thus they should be subject to our supplier review and approval process) since they have an indirect impact on our ability to consistently meet customer requirements. He thinks this is overkill, and that they should be treated no differently than our janitorial service or the guy who delivers the water jugs.
Here are the types of items I'm talking about, I'm looking at 7.1.3 Infrastructure and 8.5.1p in the standard to support my position, maybe there are others?:
Air compressor (vital for day to day production activities)
Fire suppression system (vital for safety)
Forklift (no forklift, no moving heavy items from one end of the facility to the other, potential impact to production and on-time delivery)
Microscope (used in R&D activities to analyze part quality)
I feel like this is a no brainer, but I don't want to be completely unreasonable if he has a point, and now I'm really questioning my logic.
Thank you in advance!
Here are the types of items I'm talking about, I'm looking at 7.1.3 Infrastructure and 8.5.1p in the standard to support my position, maybe there are others?:
Air compressor (vital for day to day production activities)
Fire suppression system (vital for safety)
Forklift (no forklift, no moving heavy items from one end of the facility to the other, potential impact to production and on-time delivery)
Microscope (used in R&D activities to analyze part quality)
I feel like this is a no brainer, but I don't want to be completely unreasonable if he has a point, and now I'm really questioning my logic.
Thank you in advance!