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Description / Abstract:
This Laminator Qualification Profile (LQP) isn't intended to
satisfy all of the customer's requirements, however conscientious
maintenance of this document and/or registration to ISO 9000
requirements should satisfy the major concerns. Thus, audits should
be simpler, required less frequently, and facilitate less
paperwork, as vendors and suppliers work together to meeting each
other's needs.
CONTENTS This document divides the LQP into six
sections. The laminator completing the LQP should ensure each
section is dated and maintained as a separate entity.
These sections cover:
Site, facility, and distributor descriptions (see Section
3).
Description of products manufactured at the site (see Section
4).
Approvals and certifications from third party organizations (see
Section 5).
of total quality management (TQM) in place or being implemented
at the facility (see Section 6).
How to Use this LQP The LQP can be used for
single or multiple sites or locations. Information about the
overall company is helpful in establishing the relationship of the
existing site(s) to the total company. The first page of Section 3
is intended to convey this information. The remainder of the LQP is
devoted to information about existing site(s).
The laminate manufacturer should keep all sections current. In
the initial contact between the manufacturer and a new customer, an
abbreviated LQP may suffice (site description from Section 3 and
Section 4). The remaining sections of the LQP provide details of
the site manufacturing capability and the quality principles that
have been incorporated into the systems used to manufacture
products. This information is useful for assessing where the
organization stands on implementing quality and technology. The
same data also help the customer in determining how well the
manufacturer's capability matches the their needs.
LQP Electronic Editing This MS Word template
comes with editable fields. IPC has made this electronic document
available for ease of completing, updating, and filing the LQP, as
well as to give the laminate manufacturer and customer a common
interface. Using the template enables laminate manufacturers to
maintain several customer specific files without the endless stream
of paperwork.
Editable fields are highlighted in gray. To complete the fields
in the template, use the TAB key to toggle from field to field,
entering the information as instructed in the introductory text for
each section.
The developers of this LQP strongly suggest the person at the
laminate manufacturing facility responsible for creating and
maintaining the LQP write protect the file to be sent.