40 Quality Assurance
The cross-functional team’s third visit is called On-Site Evaluation #3, which
is a Verication of Supplier Capability. This visit will always occur prior to
the supplier’s shipment of parts for production tool tryout (TT) builds. This
visit is important because the goal is to achieve a completed PSW for the
builds. Again, the customer team has to be condent in the design level and
quality level of the parts.
To be sure, not all parts will achieve PSW by TT, so the team must also
ensure that the containment plans for the builds are clearly communicated
to the supplier so that all the goals of the TT vehicles can be met. It is also
important to point out that some customer teams will go to the supplier site
more than fo ...