Mid-Eastern Industries (TDI)
Nova Electric, Mid-Eastern Industries, Nova Battery Systems
100 School Street, Bergenfield, NJ 07621
www.theallpower.com / Phone 201-385-0500
Quality Management Procedures Doc No. QD40-110 Rev C
Title: Counterfeit Parts. Avoidance, Detection & Disposal
1.0 Purpose:
1.1 The objective of this procedure is to avoid counterfeit parts from entering the TDI supply line and products, using recommendations and guidelines of SAE Standard AS5553.
Counterfeit Parts are those Electrical, Electronic, and Electromechanical (EEE) parts that are copied, substituted, recycled, refurbished, or rejected but are represented as products from qualified sources or their authorized distributors.
2.0 Scope:
2.1 This procedure applies to TDI procured EEE parts.
3.0 Responsibility:
3.1 The purchasing Dept is responsible for implementing this procedure.
3.2 The QA Dept is responsible for creating & updating this procedure.
4.0 Procedure:
4.1 TDI is committed to designing and building products that are free of any counterfeit parts. This is achieved thru Purchasing from Correct Suppliers, Training Employees to Identify Counterfeit Parts, and Quarantining & Reporting counterfeit parts.
Purchasing:
4.2 TDI will buy parts from Original Component Manufacturers (OCM) or Their Authorized Suppliers. Such vendors are identified in the TDI vendor list as Preferred Vendors.
4.3 When parts are not available from a Preferred Vendor, only an Approved Vendor will be used to source the parts. The vendor will be asked to provide a Certificate of Conformance (CoC) that includes the Manufacturer’s name, address, part number, and vendor certification that the parts supplied are new.
Training:
4.4 TDI Employees associated with Incoming Quality Control (IQC) and Production will be trained to visually identify parts that might not be original / new parts and could be suspected of being counterfeit parts.
4.5 Production employees will visually check a sample of parts they use in production. Any suspect observations will be brought to the attention of the Production Manager.
Quarantining & Reporting:
4.7 If it is suspected that there is a possibility of any part being a Counterfeit, such parts will be removed from the Receiving Area, Stock Room, or Production Floor and will be segregated in a separate area. Such parts will be clearly labeled with Red Tag for review by the Material Review Board (MRB).
4.8 The Purchasing & QA Departments will be informed about the suspect parts. The QA Dept will further investigate the suspect parts and actions will be taken as warranted on a case-by-case basis.
4.9 In case suspect parts are either confirmed or have a high probability of being counterfeit then the part supplier, part manufacturer, and GIDEP will be notified.
4.10 In cases where customers received products containing counterfeit parts, the customers will be notified of such incidents and arrangements will be made to recall such products for corrective actions. Any products in stock with such counterfeit parts will be reworked as per corrective action to remove counterfeit parts from finished goods.
Procedure End
5.0 Forms:
No Forms are assigned for this procedure.
6.0 References:
1. AS5553 Fraudulent / Counterfeit Electronics Parts. SAE Standard.