Hello all.
I'm the QM for a plastic injection moulder. We've had our certification for 14 years now. For all of these 14 years, we've had an exemption from the design clause. We manufacture tooling for some customers that then produces parts to a drawing the customer has designed. Hence being exempt.
Recently, we had an audit where a fresh faced youngster, with all of 3 AS9100 audits under his belt, got into a heated discussion with my MD as in his eyes, we should have the design clause within our scope. the thinking behind this was due to the fact we design / manufacture the tooling to make the customers parts, we are technically designing a product. The product being the tool.
My question is. Is he right? 14 years of multiple audits from the same company and customer audits, nobody has suggested we should have design as part of our scope. The MD does not want design as part of our scope. Do we have to have design as part of our scope?
Thank you for your help
I'm the QM for a plastic injection moulder. We've had our certification for 14 years now. For all of these 14 years, we've had an exemption from the design clause. We manufacture tooling for some customers that then produces parts to a drawing the customer has designed. Hence being exempt.
Recently, we had an audit where a fresh faced youngster, with all of 3 AS9100 audits under his belt, got into a heated discussion with my MD as in his eyes, we should have the design clause within our scope. the thinking behind this was due to the fact we design / manufacture the tooling to make the customers parts, we are technically designing a product. The product being the tool.
My question is. Is he right? 14 years of multiple audits from the same company and customer audits, nobody has suggested we should have design as part of our scope. The MD does not want design as part of our scope. Do we have to have design as part of our scope?
Thank you for your help