TABLE OF CONTENTS The documented processes shall assure the quality and performance, per the equipment requirements, of components before equipment delivery.
One or more of the following methods shall be used to assure component manufacturer quality:
Components shall be purchased from sources that have been successfully assessed by an accredited component assessment system, which includes a means to assess continuous quality assurance. Such assessment systems include applicable international and industry consensus standards, or the Plan owner's approved process for evaluation of the component manufacturer's internal quality assurance processes.
| Note | Examples of government or industry standards are the DOD qualified manufacturers lists, AEC, BSI, DSCC(JAN), EIA or JEDEC standards; examples of international standards are CECC, IECQ, and STACK International. |
Where the requirement of 5.4.2.1 is not met, the Plan owner shall have a process to assure that compliance to the component specification is maintained, either by component manufacturer test or Plan owner test.
A component manufacturer assessment shall include component test processes, ongoing component qualification test plans and acceptance criteria. The method by which this information is obtained shall be documented.
| Note | Typical quality assurance processes include statistical process control, periodic qualification testing, component testing and screening, etc. |
Plan owner performs process control tests and has documented quality acceptance criteria.
| Note | The following recommendations apply if component level screening is done: The components are subjected to screening conditions of... |
