AAM Cleanliness Procedure .docVIP

PURPOSE: To create a procedure to determine the amount of sediment contained within components that make up final assemblies produced by AAM. This procedure will be used as an audit to drive continuous improvement for components supplied by AAM as well as components purchased from outside suppliers. All AAM facilities as well as outside suppliers will follow this procedure to qualify component cleanliness to the requirements on the engineering drawing. SCOPE: This procedure is applicable to Material Specification and Process Standard documents of AAM. This procedure applies to all AAM manufacturing facilities finished parts prior to assembly. This procedure applies to all finished parts supplied to AAM by outside suppliers prior to shipment. REFERENCE: AAM Corporate Quality Policy Manual. AAM-9-112 - Control of Quality Records. ISO/TS16949:2009, ISO 9001:2008, Section 4.2.4 – Control of Records. ISO/TS16949:2009, ISO 9001:2008, Section 7.5.1 – Control of production and service provisions. RESPONSIBILITIES: Functional head of Corporate Materials Engineering and/or designee. The Chemical Commodity Management team or designated plant support personnel at AAM facilities will check individual part sediment and statistically chart the results once a month for each part just prior to assembly External suppliers must check individual parts for sediment and statistically chart the results once a month just prior to shipping parts to AAM. Quarterly, AAM SQA and/or designated personnel may check sediment levels on a randomly chosen part from an external supplier. GENERAL: Revisions to this procedure require written approval of the manager(s) or designee(s) of the responsible Product Engineering department(s). To verify latest document revision level, contact the facility/department quality system coordinator. All Corporate quality system procedures and job instructions will be controlled electronically.? Any hard copies designated as