Archimedes Products Purchase Order Flowdown Requirements

Please be aware that the following clauses apply to all purchase orders issued to you by Archimedes Products:

• Notify Archimedes Products of any non-conforming process, product, or services and obtain approval for their disposition.
• Obtain Archimedes Products’ approval for any non-conforming product prior to shipment to Archimedes Products.
• All suppliers must maintain a Quality System that is compliant to the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 or AS9100:2016.
• Notify Archimedes Products of any changes in product and/or processes, change of suppliers, changes of manufacturing facility location and, where required, obtain Archimedes Products approval.
• Flow down to the supply chain the applicable requirements including customer requirements.
• All records must be retained for a minimum of 7 years. Supplier will notify Archimedes Products Inc. for disposition requirements of records after retention period.
• Where appropriate, all personnel shall be qualified to perform their job function.
• Right of access by Archimedes Products, our customer and regulatory authorities to the applicable areas of all facilities, at any level of the supply chain, involved in the order and to all applicable records.
• All packing slips/C of C's must include the revision status as per the Archimedes purchase order, if applicable.
• Where appropriate, test specimens must be submitted to Archimedes for inspection/approval.
• Where appropriate, the supplier shall identify the requirements for design, test, inspection, verification, use of statistical techniques for product acceptance.
• Calibration houses only: A calibration system in conformance with ANSI/NCSL Z540-1 must be maintained that is traceable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology and provides positive identification of calibration status. Adequate process controls, records, and certifications shall also be sufficiently maintained to satisfy purchase order requirements. Data is required with any out of tolerance condition(s) found.
• Use current revision of all referenced documents unless otherwise instructed.
• Archimedes Products Inc. tracks supplier performance through measurement of suppliers’ on time delivery and quality of product delivered. Suppliers who fail to meet performance objectives may be notified of low performance rating and corrective action may be required.
• Ensuring that persons are aware of:
  • their contribution to product or service conformity;
  • their contribution to product safety;
  • the importance of ethical behavior.
• Supplier will maintain a counterfeit prevention program. The program shall include, as applicable, processes for the avoidance, detection, mitigation, disposition, and reporting of counterfeit product and services. The following industry specs, or equivalent, can be used as guidance for a prevention program: AS5553, AS6081, or AS6496
• Orders may involve hardware or technical data subject to U.S. export control laws, including ITAR. Compliance with these laws is the supplier’s own legal obligation to the United States Government. It is not transferred to, satisfied by, or dependent on Archimedes Products or this purchase order. The supplier is solely responsible for any registration, licensing, and control of such items and data required by those laws.

This page is governed by the current revision of Archimedes Products internal document FR-PU-003-02: Purchase Order Flowdown Requirements Rev 02.