Common use of Failure/Defect Reporting and Corrective Action System (FACAR Clause in Contracts

Failure/Defect Reporting and Corrective Action System (FACAR. The Contractor shall have a FACAR system established and maintained for both manufacturing and test processes. Level of assembly for failure reporting shall be consistent with the requirement for recording defect history. FACAR system information required to be recorded or reported by this SOW paragraph shall be submitted in accordance with CDRL A005. The Contractor shall implement an effective system for evaluation and disposition of supplies and services that exhibit nonconformance, including those furnished by suppliers (Subcontractors and vendors). The Contractor shall ensure that the personnel staffing the FACAR system have the authority to coordinate and implement the necessary failure and problem reporting, analysis, and related corrective action. The Contractor shall ensure that nonconformance data is adequately analyzed, distributed to appropriate organizations and personnel, and that appropriate management decisions are based on this data. Analysis must target root cause corrective action. The Contractor shall take appropriate actions to improve or change processes that do not meet requirements. All use-as- is and repair dispositions shall include a determination of whether or not a change is required to the product database (drawing, specifications, work instructions, tooling, etc.). Determination that such a change is not required shall be recorded and shall be available to the Government for review. Acceptance of the nonconformance corrective action and disposition is the prerogative of the Government and can be revoked whenever the Contractor’s system fails to demonstrate effective root cause corrective action or when repeated nonconformance indicate an overall quality system degradation.

Failure/Defect Reporting and Corrective Action System (FACAR. The Contractor contractor shall have a FACAR system established and maintained for both manufacturing and test processes. Level of assembly for failure reporting shall be consistent with the requirement for recording defect history. FACAR system information required to be recorded or reported by this SOW paragraph shall be submitted in accordance with CDRL A005A006. The Contractor contractor shall implement an effective system for evaluation and disposition of supplies and services that exhibit nonconformance, including those furnished by suppliers (Subcontractors subcontractors and vendors). The Contractor contractor shall ensure that the personnel staffing the FACAR system have the authority to coordinate and implement the necessary failure and problem reporting, analysis, and related corrective action. The Contractor contractor shall ensure that nonconformance data is adequately analyzed, distributed to appropriate organizations and personnel, and that appropriate management decisions are based on this data. Analysis must target root cause corrective action. The Contractor contractor shall take appropriate actions to improve or change processes that do not meet requirements. All use-as- is and repair dispositions shall include a determination of whether or not a change is required to the product database (drawing, specifications, work instructions, tooling, etc.). Determination that such a change is not required shall be recorded and shall be available to the Government for review. Acceptance of the nonconformance corrective action and disposition is the prerogative of the Government and can be revoked whenever the Contractorcontractor’s system fails to demonstrate effective root cause corrective action or when repeated nonconformance indicate an overall quality system degradation.

Failure/Defect Reporting and Corrective Action System (FACAR. The Contractor shall have a FACAR system established systemestablished and maintained for both manufacturing and test processes. Level of assembly for failure reporting shall be consistent with the requirement for recording defect history. FACAR system information systeminformation required to be recorded or reported by this SOW paragraph shall be submitted in accordance with CDRL A005. The Contractor shall implement an effective system for evaluation and disposition of supplies and services that exhibit nonconformance, including those furnished by suppliers (Subcontractors and vendors). The Contractor shall ensure that the personnel staffing the FACAR system have systemhave the authority to coordinate and implement the necessary failure and problem reporting, analysis, and related corrective action. The Contractor shall ensure that nonconformance data is adequately analyzed, distributed to appropriate organizations and personnel, and that appropriate management decisions are based on this data. Analysis must target root cause corrective action. The Contractor shall take appropriate actions to improve or change processes that do not meet requirements. All use-as- is and repair dispositions shall include a determination of whether or not a change is required to the product database (drawing, specifications, work instructions, tooling, etc.). Determination that such a change is not required shall be recorded and shall be available to the Government for review. Acceptance of the nonconformance corrective action and disposition is the prerogative of the Government and can be revoked whenever the Contractor’s system fails systemfails to demonstrate effective root cause corrective action or when repeated nonconformance indicate an overall quality system degradationsystemdegradation.

Failure/Defect Reporting and Corrective Action System (FACAR. The Contractor shall have a FACAR system established and maintained for both manufacturing and test processes. Level of assembly for failure reporting shall be consistent with the requirement for recording defect history. FACAR system information required to be recorded or reported by this SOW paragraph shall be submitted in accordance with CDRL A005. The Contractor shall implement an effective system for evaluation and disposition of supplies and services that exhibit nonconformance, including those furnished by suppliers (Subcontractors and vendors). The Contractor shall ensure that the personnel staffing the FACAR system have the authority to coordinate and implement the necessary failure and problem reporting, analysis, and related corrective action. The Contractor shall ensure that nonconformance data is adequately analyzed, distributed to appropriate organizations and personnel, and that appropriate management decisions are based on this data. Analysis must target root cause corrective action. The Contractor shall take appropriate actions to improve or change processes that do not meet requirements. All use-as- as-is and repair dispositions shall include a determination of whether or not a change is required to the product database (drawing, specifications, work instructions, tooling, etc.). Determination that such a change is not required shall be recorded and shall be available to the Government for review. Acceptance of the nonconformance corrective action and disposition is the prerogative of the Government and can be revoked whenever the Contractor’s system fails to demonstrate effective root cause corrective action or when repeated nonconformance indicate an overall quality system degradation.