I have not been as fortunate to have a "trusting soul" conduct my factory
audits. I was asked by a safety agency located in the U.S. to provide proof
of plastics through a C oC so here is what we settlted on.
(See attached file: C of C 1.xls)
C of C 1.xls
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Sent: Thursday, November 19, 1998 5:09 AM
To: 'Darrell Locke (MSMail)'; 'emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org'
Subject: RE: Plastics Cert Documentation
We just had a meeting here yesterday on this same issue. The shear
number
of p
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Subject: Re: Plastics Cert Documentation
Hi Richard:
> The manufacturer must keep
these
> available for the inspectors that appear each quarter.
To my knowledge, no third-party certifier has
Hi Kendall:
> I would take a step back and ask "how does my company
> confirm that the plastic part we ordered meets our specs ?"
> Does incoming inspection check the cert attached with the
> shipment and keep a record that they cross-checked it with
> a component specification
Hi Richard:
> The manufacturer must keep these
> available for the inspectors that appear each quarter.
To my knowledge, no third-party certifier has required
such records.
Most would like you to do so, and if you volunteered,
they would be very happ
Greetings,
At a former company, we were able to have the plastic vendor mold the
information right into the part or put in on the outside of the shipping
carton. All of the agencies that we delt with accepted this. The molded in
information also helped in some of the recycling requirements for Ger
I have had sucess in the past with follow-up inspectors by having the
plastic material identification molded into the plastic part by the supplier
and keeping one cert of flammability on file. I don't know if this is
still acceptable to follow-up inspectors. You could check with your
inspectors
Cc: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org
Subject: Re: Plastics Cert Documentation
Hi Darrell:
> We must
keep
> certs of flammability on file for each shipment of every plastic
part to
> s
We just had a meeting here yesterday on this same issue. The shear number
of plastic subassemblies that we have makes it very difficult to keep C of
C's for every piece. We are trying to decide what other alternatives there
are. I would appreciate being copied on any answers that anyone may have
All we do is to specify the required plastic material by Manufacturer,
generic name,
and specific grade on our drawings.
>From time to time, the FUS inspector will pick a part from our assembly
line, and check the
drawing in our print file to ensure that it calls up a material that meets
the UL re
Darrell,
I would take a step back and ask "how does my company confirm that the plastic
part we ordered meets our specs ?" Does
incoming inspection check the cert attached with the shipment and keep a record
that they cross-checked it with a
component specification or purchase order ? Did the
Hi Darrell:
> We must keep
> certs of flammability on file for each shipment of every plastic part to
> satisfy UL, CSA, and TUV factory inspectors.
I don't know where you got this notion. None of these
organizations have this re
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