Interview question!
Wes Bucey said:
My memory is that this is a customer specific requirement, not TS16949 general requirement Typically, they make a distinction among critical characteristics, key characteristics, and significant characteristics as well as between "capability" shown by PPAP and actual during real production.
Interesting this! Just the other day I was at an interview being asked just this very same question!!
My answer was in line with the quotation above, unfortunately I am not as capable as y in quoting from the standard. Now I do know that in real life (eg business life) things are a tad more complicated. But the interview setting wasn’t the place to elaborate on such practical issues.
However the MD doing the interview insisted that it was not the customer but more the tools themselves, those that you use in production that decides issues of capability.
Why would he say this? Could it be something that is/was true in the world of the old QS 9000??
And please could someone help me with this? Another issue at the interview concerned the relation between the old QS and ISO TS. I was under the impression that QS is to be phased out and replaced by TS. The MD however was very adamant about the fact that TS standard is only there to enhance the QS and that they would continue to coexist. I really would appreciate if someone could tell what goes here.
Cheers!