Procedure No.

Quality System Procedure Rev. No.

Effective Date

Procedure: Initial Supply Control & Hand over to mass production

1.0 PURPOSE

To prepare a procedure for initial supply of production & Their Control.

2.0 SCOPE

This Procedure is Applicable for Initial Supply Control.

 A design or engineering change
 A new part development.
 Raw Material supplier change.
 Plan Location Change.

3.0 RESPONSIBILITIES

The overall responsibility of maintaining the effectiveness and implementation of this procedure
Lies with Inch – NPD with the support of prod & CFT.

4.0 PERIOD
a) Initial supply period will be after PPAP approval to before Mass production handover. Initial supply period is 3
month / 2 Lac Mtr. Whichever later, time will be calculated from SOP at customer end. Initial Supply part will be
identified with initial supply identification Tag (Sky Blue Color) for new part development.

b) 1 month / 1 Lac Mtr. whichever is later for ECN/PCN, New supplier and location change or as per customer
requirements.

5.0 ABBREVATIONS

PFMEA Process Failure Mode Effective Analysis

CFT Cross Functional Team
PPM Part Per Million
WI Work Instruction
NPD New Product Development
PFD Process Flow Diagram
PPAP Production Part Approval Process

6.0 Amendment Details:

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7.0 Records

S. No Record Doc. No.

1 Initial / Pilot Supply control Sheet

2 Initial supply termination sheet
3 Past trouble history sheet
4 Set-up Approval Inspection Report
5 In-Process Inspection Report
6 SPC
7 Initial Supply Tag

8.0 Criteria for Start of Initial supply:

Inch NPD shall announce the initial supply start & end period & follow the special activities.

9.0 Activities / Description:

Activities during initial supply control:

1. From start of the Production trial 3 months time or 2 Lac Mtr (whichever is later) period is considered as
an initial supply.
2. Inspection frequency/sample size will be double or as per prelaunch control plan for the dimensions
defined by customer i.e. safe launch activity.
3. 200% Visual inspection for finish product.
4. During initial supply period product parameters shall be inspected by the instrument as defined in the pre
launch control plan.
5. Process capability study once/month.
6. Senior or more experienced operators will be used for operation.
7. Daily rejection review and analysis daily by CFT & action fast removal.
8. Carry out process audit through control plan twice at start & last month.

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Quality System Procedure Rev. No.

Effective Date

Procedure: Initial Supply Control & Hand over to mass production

10.0 Criteria for termination of Initial supply:

Inch NPD is responsible for Termination of Initial supply period control. During initial supply, following
parameter should be monitor & Achieve at improving trend for 3 conjunctive months.

 Customer PPM - 00
 Customer Complaint Target 00.
 Rejection level should be less than In-House Rejection Level (PPM) level.
 Capability Study Result should be more then cpk.1.33.
 Delivery Performance target 100%.
 Close of all NCs/abnormalities reported during NPD/ISC & their effectiveness.

11.0 Extension of termination period:

Based on termination criteria and monitoring if results are not satisfactory, termination period may be
extended accordingly by NPD In-charge. If results are satisfactory termination will be announced by NPD
Inch and regular production documents are to be offered.

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