What to Look For in Supplier Audits

Abstract

Tim and Fred discuss the importance of audits to assess the supplier capabilities and determine whether a supplier can consistently meet your quality and reliability requirements.

Key Points

Join Tim and Fred as they discuss best practices in supplier audits, including the questions that should be asked, how to interpret the answers, and how this helps reduce cost and improve reliability.

Topics include:

• Can you audit a supplier without a deep understanding of their manufacturing processes?
• Why process yields and inspection results are not sufficient evidence of a capable production process.
• The link between process parameters, process control, and production output capability.

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SOR 094 What to look for in Supplier AuditTim Rodgers

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For additional information on another potential cause of No Defect Found (NDF) warranty returns, see the Accendo Reliability Blog post “Why Parametric Variation Can Lead to Failures and HALT Can Help“