Hi
Why not consider adopting the Military QPL's.  Presumably your work 
would be largely done.
Monitoring would be your continued responsibility.
Bernie Kessler





At 10:33 AM 10/19/2007, Genny Gibbard wrote:
>Has anyone defined any internal standards for how to approve second
>sources for "generic" components by datasheet review alone, without
>running exhaustive tests on every source?
>I just don't see the point in running 3 weeks of environmental and
>stress tests in order to qualify a $0.002 10Kohm chip resistor second
>source.  I should be able to look at a datasheet and say "yes this is
>OK".  But when you make OEM products you need to justify why you are
>approving it with this method, and I would like to write up some sort of
>standard to cover off the bases.
>
>I'm looking for places to start.  Thoughts?
>
>Thanks as always, and regards,
>Genny.
>
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