Super Systems SSI User Manual

1.0.0 Purpose:

This document serves as a “Terms of Purchase” that suppliers agree to abide
by when accepting an order from SSi. It communicates SSi’s general quality
requirements for suppliers. It is not intended to replace the normal supplier certification
process. It can also serve as a guide by which potential suppliers can gauge their quality
system to facilitate compliance to SSi’s quality requirements during the certification
process.

2.0.0 Application:
suppliers of direct materials, parts, and services to SSi.

3.0.0 Procedures:

3.1.0 Certification: SSi desires that suppliers have ISO9000, AS9100, QS9000,
NADCAP, ISO/IEC 17025 or other such standard certification but this is not required.

3.2.0 Inspection System The supplier will maintain an inspection system, which will
assure that all material and services submitted to the purchaser for acceptance, meet
the requirements of the purchase order (P.O.). This requirement applies to material and
services manufactured or purchased by the supplier. Inspection and testing will be
prescribed by clear, complete, and current instructions. The instructions will assure
inspection and test of material, work in process, and completed articles as required by
specification and the P.O. Criteria for acceptance and rejection will be included. Special
Process Controls will be an integral part of the inspection system when such processes
are part of the purchase order. As such, special process procedures will not be modified
without prior approval of the purchaser.

3.2.1 Inspection System Documentation: The supplier's inspection system will
be documented, and available for review by the purchaser, prior to the initiation
of production and during the life of the P.O. The supplier will notify the purchaser,
in writing, of any change to the supplier's inspection system. The inspection
system will be subject to disapproval if changes thereto could result in
nonconforming product.

3.3.0 Drawings and Changes: The supplier's systems will provide controls, which will
assure that the latest applicable drawings, specifications, and instructions required by
the P.O.; as well as, authorized changes thereto, are used for manufacture, inspection,
and testing.

3.4.0 Measuring and Test Equipment: The supplier will provide and maintain gages
and other measuring and test devices necessary to assure all delivered product is
conforming. In order to assure continued accuracy all inspection, measurement, and test
devices will be calibrated at established intervals against certified masters, which are
traceable to national standards.

3.4.1 Sampling Inspection: Dimensional or visual sampling may be used where
the process capability is acceptable and stable with prior purchaser approval.

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SSi Supplier Quality Manual

The requirements of this procedure (where applicable) apply to all

PRS-M-001 Supplier Quality Manual(Rev B).doc (11/24/08)
This is a controlled document but it is not guaranteed to be the current version. It is the user’s responsibility to
verify that the revision level of this document matches the revision level stored electronically in the Quality
System. This document may contain propriety information, intellectual property, names and logos which may be
confidential. Reproducing or transmitting this document in any format, in part or whole is prohibited without the
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3.5.0 Purchaser Furnished Material: When the purchaser furnishes material, the
supplier's procedures will include, as a minimum, the following:

a) Examination upon receipt to detect damage in transit.
b) Inspection for completeness and proper type.
c) Periodic inspection and precautions to assure adequate storage conditions

and to guard against damage from handling and/or deterioration during

storage.
d) Identification and protection from improper use and disposition.
e) Verification of quantity.

The supplier will report to the purchaser any purchaser furnished material found
damaged or otherwise unsuitable for use. In the event of damage or malfunctioning
during or after receipt, the supplier will determine and record probable cause and
necessity for withholding the material from use.

3.6.0 Nonconforming Material: The supplier will maintain an effective and positive
system for controlling nonconforming material. Nonconforming material identified by the
supplier will not be shipped to the purchaser without written authority. Unless other wise
instructed by the purchaser, the supplier will hold such material until the purchaser
reviews and dispositions the request. Nonconformances, which can be reworked by
repeating part or all of the initial process (other than special processes), will be
considered as rework and can be accomplished without purchaser approval.

3.6.1 Shipment of Nonconforming Material: If during gage calibration, rejection
analysis, etc., it is determined that nonconforming material may have
inadvertently been shipped, the purchaser will be notified immediately.

3.7.0 Records: The supplier will maintain adequate records of all inspections and tests.
The records will indicate the nature and number of observations made, the number and
type of defects found, the quantities accepted and/or rejected, and the nature of
corrective action taken as appropriate.

3.8.0 Personnel Qualifications: Qualifications of supplier employees are only critical for
calibration services of SSI equipment. Employees of calibration suppliers shall be
ISO/IEC 17025 trained.

Modifications:
11-24-08: Rev B: added 3.1.0 and 3.8.0

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PRS-M-001 Supplier Quality Manual(Rev B).doc (11/24/08)
This is a controlled document but it is not guaranteed to be the current version. It is the user’s responsibility to
verify that the revision level of this document matches the revision level stored electronically in the Quality
System. This document may contain propriety information, intellectual property, names and logos which may be
confidential. Reproducing or transmitting this document in any format, in part or whole is prohibited without the
permission of Super Systems, Inc. Page 2 of 2

B printed on: 12/8/2008