GP12 Early Production Containment

The GP12 Early Production Containment service is a quality action focused on the containment of nonconforming products, functioning as the last filter on the production lines, guaranteeing 100% detection of defective.

GP-12 services also known as Early Production Containment are part of the production approval process.

How does a GP12 Early Production Containment help my business?

This type of early containment is applicable to all preproduction and production components, it applies to all new and modified parts for projects startup. Once a GP12 service is established, there should be a containment plan, so that any quality problems are quickly identified at the supplier’s facilities and not all the costumer’s facilities.

What is the purpose of GP12 Early Containment?

GP12 Early Production Containment allows you:

Validate the supplier’s production control plan.
Protect manufacturing and assembly centers and service parts warehouses from quality nonconformities.
Document the supplier’s efforts to verify control of its processes during startup, between and after manufacturing process review, or when manufacturing runs are separated by 3 months or more.
Make sure any quality issues that may arise are quickly identified, contained and corrected at the supplier location.
Increase the participation and visibility of the supplier’s senior management.

What should be considered to quote the a GP12 Early Production Containment service?

The cost of the GP12 containment service varies significantly according to the requirements of each company: to quote this service you must provide the following information:

Duration of the project: Tell us if your project is temporary or permanent specify the number of hours, days or moths.
Number of Inspectors: how many inspectors (specify how many inspectors per shift).
Work hours: tell us the hours, shifts and days of work.
Mention the quality of parts to be certificated or inspected
What PPE does personnel require to enter to your facilities?
Tools: if the inspection requires tools, specify which ones and if they will be provided by you as a client or required by your sorting supplier.
Consumables: List the consumables that the equipment will need for inspection, for example, water markers, oil markers, labels or other consumables.

Increase your customer’s confidence level by ensuring that all products shipped will meet their expectations.

GP12 Early Production Containment