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Hi All,
I have a question of interpertation,
Recently we had a piece of tooling break, this was for a small dedicated stamping machine that cuts a z shaped notch in the end of our part. Of course it will take 2 weeks to repair and we have customer demand for the products coming off that line next week. So the decision by our QM is that we will use an outside source to laser cut the notches in the part. So as the QE for this product I said that we would need to contact the customer about this change from an internal stamping process to an external laser process. She said not to inform them. She said she read the PPAP manual
and here is her interpertation.
"Based upon my review and interpretation of the AIAG requirements. We are not making a permanent process change, and we are still following the original PPAP process flow that was submitted for customer approval. The process flow indicates cut notches, not the method that must be used."
I have had the customer on site to review the process first hand so they are well aware of what we are doing , and in my opinion this is a process change in construction and location which certainly warrants notification.
Any Insight would help. Am I missing something?, or How can I explain to my boss that her interpertation is wrong without arguing it with my interpertation.
Thanks for any help ,
Regards
JimO
I have a question of interpertation,
Recently we had a piece of tooling break, this was for a small dedicated stamping machine that cuts a z shaped notch in the end of our part. Of course it will take 2 weeks to repair and we have customer demand for the products coming off that line next week. So the decision by our QM is that we will use an outside source to laser cut the notches in the part. So as the QE for this product I said that we would need to contact the customer about this change from an internal stamping process to an external laser process. She said not to inform them. She said she read the PPAP manual
and here is her interpertation."Based upon my review and interpretation of the AIAG requirements. We are not making a permanent process change, and we are still following the original PPAP process flow that was submitted for customer approval. The process flow indicates cut notches, not the method that must be used."
I have had the customer on site to review the process first hand so they are well aware of what we are doing , and in my opinion this is a process change in construction and location which certainly warrants notification.
Any Insight would help. Am I missing something?, or How can I explain to my boss that her interpertation is wrong without arguing it with my interpertation.
Thanks for any help ,
Regards
JimO

