To me, the design authority is the company or person who owns the original design and licenses its use, or the designated design group(s) they have authorized to create, control, and maintain design configuration for the product. Quite often these can be the customer, or the customer's customer, AND possibly an independent design contractor, but there is always (or should be) a single entity whose responsibility is to be the overall coordinator/controller and configuration manager of the documentation package (Bill of Materials, board fabrication drawing, the electrical schematic , assembly and subassembly drawings including chassis or final product and its packaging.

Odin

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Good afternoon all,



A question for you.  The term "design authority" is used in some IPC

specifications, such as J-STD-001.  Oddly enough, the term does not appear

in IPC-T-50.  So, I ask the group - if saw the term "design authority" in a

specification, what entity would that be to you?



Secondly, the merger of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins was

completed and yesterday was Day 1 for Collins Aerospace.  If any of you are

trying to contact a former Rockwell Collins employee, our domain change.

My new email is [log in to unmask]  Dave Hillman would be

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If this question has shown up before, my apologies.  Been working on

getting the domain changed on Technet and don't know if the previous

attempts went through.



Doug Pauls

Principal Materials and Process Engineer

Collins Aerospace