Section 8.3 relevant for design organisations

[DuncanGibbons]

Hi all,

I have a query about SAE AS9100D section 8.3, design and development of products and services.

Is this section relevant for design organisations mainly. Or is it applicable to both design and productions organisations?

Would the requirements not be addressed by the design organisation and flown down as part of their internal specifications to lower-tiered production organisations and manufacturers.

 

[Randall Beck]

Hi all,

I have a query about SAE AS9100D section 8.3, design and development of products and services.

Is this section relevant for design organisations mainly. Or is it applicable to both design and productions organisations?

Would the requirements not be addressed by the design organisation and flown down as part of their internal specifications to lower-tiered production organisations and manufacturers.

Design and development is for organizations that are responsible for defining the product function, life cycle, key characteristics and other requirements for manufacturing or servicing the product. They will usually flow all requirements down to the production organizations in order for them to manufacture the items to those requirements. These requirements will be the verification activities required to be performed in order verify compliance to the intended design.

A airline seat manufacturer may design a passenger seat with all the features necessary to ensure compliance with FAA flight safety laws and regulations and fit, form and function requirements for a particular airplane configuration but then will flow down all the manufacturing and testing requirements to a manufacturing facility to manufacture it. It is very common for manufacturing facilities like us to be design exempt. We can't change anything - we only have to show compliance to what they designed in our final product.

 

[Big Jim]

Could be both. If you both design and manufacture something you certainly are design responsible. If you design something that is manufactured by others you are design responsible. If you manufacture to someone else's specifications then you are not design responsible.