June 2010

• Introductions

1. Review inspection requirements of AS9100 Rev C
2. Review AS9100 Rev C risk management requirements
3. Now that it is no longer a specific requirement of the standard to validate test reports, should the company discontinue or reduce this practice? Are there other more efficient and effective means of achieving the same result?
4. What about Certificate of Conformance requirements? Should a company use these for any other purpose than as a record that someone certified that everything was fine?
5. Should the RI process focus on reducing the wasted cost of labor and material when the wrong material is accepted at receiving or is it more important to focus on preventing defects from reaching the customer?
6. Is it practical to develop an RI system for a machine shop supplier whose QMS is undefined and unrecognizable or should you only purchase machine shop services from an AS9100 certified supplier?
7. Is it really necessary to verify at RI that the part or material was purchased from a qualified supplier? Isn’t the audit process intended to verify that the purchasing process is working as designed?
8. Can the requirement to “establish and implement the inspection or other activities necessary for ensuring that purchased product meets specified purchase requirements” be satisfied by simply visually checking to see that the part is the same as described on the PO?
9. Is it practical to develop an RI process that is aligned with the supplier’s known capabilities and substantially reduce the inspection conducted at receiving?
10. If purchasing controls, supplier controls, receiving inspection, in process inspection, and final inspection are all integrated into one risk management program, would that satisfy paragraph 7.1.2 of the standard?

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