Mr.1Putt said:
We have a supplier who simply refuses to submit a PPAP (they are TS registered).
The reason for no submission is proprietary (patented product). Claiming any DFMEA, Control Plan, PFMEA, raw material validation is proprietary and would violate their patent protection.
Has anyone encountered a similiar situation and what did you do? A better question is what would an auditor say, will they accept this? We are trying to get a customer waiver but I have a feeling we won't win that battle. OEM is BMW.
Help needed!
Thanks
The reason for no submission is proprietary (patented product). Claiming any DFMEA, Control Plan, PFMEA, raw material validation is proprietary and would violate their patent protection.
Has anyone encountered a similiar situation and what did you do? A better question is what would an auditor say, will they accept this? We are trying to get a customer waiver but I have a feeling we won't win that battle. OEM is BMW.
Help needed!
Thanks
One might suspect that a level 4 (Part Submission Warrant only) would be acceptable. Since you can not have all the other documents you may have to either 1) document an audit of their documents (PFD, FMEAA, CP, etc) 2) have a letteer of compliance or 3) a level 2 with statistical data of the process / controls / relevant info.