A preliminary analysis shall be performed on the manufacturing activities, focused to the identification and prevention of defects.
There shall be a Productive Process Flow Chart: analysis activity cannot leave out of consideration the whole Productive Flow, starting from the material arrival and ending with the shipment and delivery of finished Product to the Customer.
When the technical documentation provided by the Customer does not indicate the existence of significant characteristics, the Organization’s personnel shall be trained and able to identify those characteristics important to the Customer or Product by means of techniques such as Process FMEA, assembling FMEA c/o Customer’s plant, DOE, knowledge of their processes, and/or knowledge of how the product is used.
At least the Organization should analyze characteristics that affect close tolerances, fit, function, finish, reliability, durability and/or that affect both internal Process parameters and following / final Process (see point 1.3).
Organization shall be able to describe how the design significant characteristics that affect Product function have been took in account during the development of Process FMEA.
Process FMEA shall analyze the whole Productive Flow starting from the material arrival and ending with the shipment and delivery of finished Product to the Customer.
Non-conformities arisen on Product / Process shall be used to update continuously the preventive analyses such as FMEA.
NB: auditor shall have the Process FMEA during the audit, even if it has been shared in a previous phase.