We just went through our Stage 2 IATF 16949 certification audit and were sited with a nonconformance stating: "The scope of the quality management system, including details of and justification for any exclusions per Quality Policy Manual (QM-101) Rev. 3 states exclusion of 8.3 in its entirety which does not meet IATF Requirements for permissible exclusions (clauses related to product design)."
Our scope is written as "Eagle Wings Industries excludes Product design (Section 8.3) since we are not responsible for the design of the products we provide to our customers. We manufacture to our customers’ designs and cannot change the form, fit or function without customer approval so therefore this section is not within the scope of Eagle Wings Inc. ISO 9001/IATF 16949 registered activities."
The auditor is stating the we can not exclude product design input and outputs, and I can not find any where this is noted. I'm not sure if this is a valid finding, if anyone can point me in the right directions, I would greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Our scope is written as "Eagle Wings Industries excludes Product design (Section 8.3) since we are not responsible for the design of the products we provide to our customers. We manufacture to our customers’ designs and cannot change the form, fit or function without customer approval so therefore this section is not within the scope of Eagle Wings Inc. ISO 9001/IATF 16949 registered activities."
The auditor is stating the we can not exclude product design input and outputs, and I can not find any where this is noted. I'm not sure if this is a valid finding, if anyone can point me in the right directions, I would greatly appreciated.
Thanks,