Checking a production part approval package before submitting
Approval packages come back for mismatch rather than for bad parts. The revision on the control plan does not agree with the revision on the process flow. A gauge named in the control plan has no measurement study behind it. A dimension on the results sheet has no balloon on the print. The warrant declares a weight nobody measured. Each of those is checkable before the file is sent, and the ones that matter most are the cross document links, since the reviewer works down a checklist looking for exactly those.
The quote was built against one revision and the drawing in the operator hand is another, which is the defect this sector is built around.
A request to quote arrives as an archive of geometry files and drawings, or as a line in a customer portal, or as a scan. An estimator opens each one, decomposes the part into operations mentally, estimates setup and run times, and emails suppliers for material pricing before typing a number into a spreadsheet.
- Excel
- Epicor Kinetic
- JobBOSS2
When this is the wrong thing to build
Pick something else if none of your customers run an automotive approval process and none of them ask for a warrant. Prechecking a package assumes a fixed rule set to check against. If your customer sends its own spreadsheet with its own tab order every time, the rules move faster than the checks do.
The constraint that shapes it
Quality certification is the constraint that shapes everything here. More on how this sector works.
Run the rules of the other side first, so the submission does not come back. Read what this shape is, or start from one of these.
- Counting the clock that public marketing starts on a listing
- Checking for a signed buyer agreement before a tour is confirmed
- Catching a filing rejection before the clerk does
- Catching the invoice lines an e-billing gate will reject
- Checking that a technician may legally take the call
- Filing a backflow test report the purveyor will accept
- What gets a PPAP submission rejected by a customer quality engineer?
- Does the control plan revision have to match the process flow?
- Which PPAP elements have to be submitted rather than retained?
- What is a part submission warrant and who signs it?
- How do I check dimensional results against the ballooned print before submitting?
Back to manufacturing, or see how this is priced and scoped.