Quality Assurance Specification QSR-1

1 northrop GRUMMANM arine Systems401 E. Hendy BOX 3499 Sunnyvale, Ca. 94088-3499 Quality Assurance SpecificationQSR-1 Rev. AQuality System RequirementsRelease Date: March 1996 Approved:__Signature on File_____D. L. Airola, Manager DateProduct Quality EngineeringQSR-1 Rev. AMarch 1996 Page 1 of document establishes the minimum requirements for a supplier s Quality system. Itidentifies the elements of a system to be established and maintained by the supplier tosubstantiate product conformance to northrop grumman purchase order requirementsand applies to all materials and services when referenced in a purchase System Procedures: The supplier shall establish and maintain proceduresthat define how each of the following sections are to be controlled.

2 The formsused must be referenced in the procedures and a copy included where Suppliers Quality System shall be available for review by NorthropGrumman and the Review and Control: The supplier shall establish and maintain amethod for reviewing and controlling a northrop grumman purchase order( ). This system must receives How and who reviews the requirements and converts it to adocument that will be used by Production and and Inspection Documentation: The supplier shall use adocument (herein called a Traveler) that identifies and controls themanufacturing and inspection operations of northrop grumman traveler will be the primary document that provides objective evidenceand traceability that manufacturing and inspection operations have beencompleted per northrop grumman requirements.

3 This traveler mustinclude and/or make reference to the drawings and/or to the northrop grumman Purchase Order Number, PartNumber, and Revision Instruction. (Shall be left to the supplier to determinemanufacturing sequence and detail necessary to product to ) QSR-1 Rev. AMarch 1996 Page 2 of points: When northrop grumman hold points orGovernment hold points are specified by requirements, provisionson the traveler must reflect these requirements. Final inspection requirements is mandatory for all northrop grumman manufacturer must be able to provide objective evidence ofsatisfactory completion of each inspection/manufacturing stepperformed. Verification of inspection or manufacturing shall bedenoted by a signature or stamp and : The supplier shall maintain records of northrop grumman PurchaseOrder documentation, manufacturing and inspection travelers, certificationsand other records required to produce northrop grumman products for aminimum of seven (7) years or as specified by requirements.

4 Theserecords shall be made available to northrop grumman or to the Governmenton materials procured to produce northrop grumman products mustbe inspected to northrop grumman requirements. Verification ofinspection shall be denoted by a signature or stamp and or services performed outside ( , nondestructive testing,heat treating, chemical and physical testing, machining, fabrication,etc.) must be inspected and/or verified to northrop Grummanrequirements. There must be objective evidence documenting theacceptance of the product or service procured. The applicablecertification of conformance for test and/or special processes must alsoindicate acceptance Material: (Any item not meeting northrop grumman designrequirements).

5 All nonconforming material must be immediately identified andremoved from the manufacturing flow. Reference to the nonconformance shallbe documented on the traveler. The supplier has the following options with thenonconforming material: QSR-1 Rev. AMarch 1996 Page 3 of to Purchase Order specifications - reinspection of the reworkmust be documented with a signature or inspection stamp and rejects other than scrap or rework, record the nonconformance on a northrop grumman Supplier Nonconformance Report (SNR) andforward to the northrop grumman Purchasing Buyer form and Test Equipment: The supplier must have the capability andequipment available to inspect or test what he produces to northrop requirements.

6 If the supplier does not have the capability to test orinspect the product to northrop grumman Purchase Order requirements,outside sources may be utilized, provided that Para. and are adhered : The supplier shall establish and maintain a system insuring that allgages, measuring devices, and test equipment used for product acceptance arecalibrated at specified intervals against certified standards which have knownvalid relationships to those of the National Institute of Standards Technology(NIST). The calibration status of calibrated measuring tools and testequipment shall be indicated by labels or some other suitable means. Amethod shall be established for monitoring the equipment to assure adherenceto calibration schedules.

7 The calibration status shall indicate the date of lastcalibration, by whom calibrated and when the next calibration is grumman Furnished Material: The supplier shall identify andexamine all northrop grumman furnished material upon receipt. Any materialfound damaged, malfunctioning or otherwise unsuitable for use must bedocumented on the northrop grumman SNR and northrop grumman Inspection: All critical, major, and selected minor characteristicsmust be 100% inspected by the supplier. The remainder of minorcharacteristics may be sample inspected. Sampling inspection procedures usedby the supplier to accept minor characteristics shall be from MIL-STD-105D,General Inspection Level II, single normal plan, AQL.

8 Other samplingplans are permissible upon northrop grumman approval.