I agree that component selection is a multi-department function. Normally, only the design engineers and purchasing team evaluates the components and the production team does not get a say into whether the component is fit to be used in production. I think the input from production and other teams is equally important.
I think for such Component qualification , only design engineer will not be able to complete the whole process. For such a complete qualification, the design has to circulated to various departments such as purchase, production, testing and quality control and finally service.
The 15 points qualification process can thus be divided as below
points 1 to 7 -- purchase
ponits 8 -- production
points 9,10 -- Quality control
point 11 - purchase
point 12 - design engineer
point 13 - purchase.
point 14,15 - testing
Thus once the design engineer has finalised the component selection based upon his requirements and the available alternatives , if the design along with BOM is circulated as per the above route then all the questions related to the suitability of the selected comonent will be answered jointly and a single person doews not have to take the burden .
The departments other than the design department should not take a view that "let the design work first and then we will see the testability, manufacturability and availability"
Douglas, I agree that all the questions are very much valid. But from a developer point of view, how many are following the same? And what’s the reason for others for not following is also relevant. In most of the cases, delay in finding a distributor or component by scrutinizing all the 15 questions is the major factor. The second is we can found out that a very minimal can pass such scrutiny and finally then the selection may be very minimal. In such an environment, we may compromise with some of the factors from the list.
"Has the part been reviewed for environmental compliance?"
That is very important nowadays when emphasis is being put on environmental awareness. I wish this legislation could be applied in every countries-not only EU or USA.
It is good list to follow. But I have not seen so good component engineer so far. For this he has to have 10 to 15 years of design experience. In practice, most work come back to design engineer. He has to reply to all questions.
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