Provisions Governing Qua/ification SD-6
standards of individual companies. Non-government standards adopted by the DoD are listed in the
ASSIST database.
Preparing Activity. The DoD activity or the civilian agency responsible for the preparation, coordination, issuance, and maintenance of standardization documents.
Producer. The actual manufacturer of parts or materials that are not used as end items, but are processed or incorporated into designed equipment. This term distinguishes a producer from an equipment manufacturer who uses the parts and materials in his or her equipment.
Product. Includes materials, parts, components, subassemblies, assemblies, and equipment. The term "product" also encompasses a family of products. A family of products is defined as: all products of the same classification, design, construction, material, type, and other design characteristics;
produced with the same production facilities, processes, and quality of material, under the same management and quality controls; but having the acceptable variety of physical and functional characteristics that is defined and specified in the applicable specification.
Qualification. A process in advance of, and independent of, an acquisition by which a manufacturer's capabilities, or a manufacturer's or distributor's products, are examined, tested, and found to be in conformance with specification requirements, and subsequent approval for inclusion of products in an electronic QPL or manufacturers in an electronic QML, which are part of the QPD.
Qualified Manufacturers List (QML). An electronic listing in the QPD of manufacturers' qualified processes and materials at each facility that have been successfully subjected to a defined set of qualification and periodic tests using processes, worst case designs or materials, to verify the end product's design, performance, quality, and reliability meet all the applicable specification requirements.
Qualified Product. A product that has been examined, tested, and listed in, or approved for inclusion in the applicable electronic QPL in the QPD.
Qualified Products Database (QPD). This database consists of the officially approved electronic QPLs and QMLs, and may be accessed through the Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System (ASSIST) at https://assist.dla.mil. Only those electronic QPLs and QMLs in the QPD are the official source for qualified products and manufacturers.
Qualified Products List (QPL). An electronic listing in the QPD of products or families of products that have successfully completed the formal qualification process (including all specified periodic tests) that examines, tests, and verified that a specific product design meets all the applicable specification requirements.
Qualifying Activity. The activity that has been given responsibility to develop, implement, and maintain the qualification program as specified in the applicable specification, and authorized by its Departmental Standardization Office (DepSO) to input information into the QPD.
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