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Hello All,
Hopefully you can help me give a definitive statement on this to a client of ours. Part of what we are helping them with at the moment is guiding them through AS9100B, and forward to NADCAP.
Our client is a job shop for conventional and non-conventional machining processes. Part of what they do would include modifying machines to carry out bespoke machining operations, and they would design and produce a large percentage of the tooling and fixturing associated with these operations. Because they have a CAD station they seem to think the standard applies directly to this inhouse function........whereas I would opinion that the "design" mentioned in section 7.3 of the standard relates to design input on the customer product, and that the validation of the fixture design is part and parcel of the FAIR at the process development stage.
What do you guys think? ( Did I miss something in the Standard on this?)
Hopefully you can help me give a definitive statement on this to a client of ours. Part of what we are helping them with at the moment is guiding them through AS9100B, and forward to NADCAP.
Our client is a job shop for conventional and non-conventional machining processes. Part of what they do would include modifying machines to carry out bespoke machining operations, and they would design and produce a large percentage of the tooling and fixturing associated with these operations. Because they have a CAD station they seem to think the standard applies directly to this inhouse function........whereas I would opinion that the "design" mentioned in section 7.3 of the standard relates to design input on the customer product, and that the validation of the fixture design is part and parcel of the FAIR at the process development stage.
What do you guys think? ( Did I miss something in the Standard on this?)
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