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Chapter 190 QPA and QSA
Xin Tong originally thought that after passing the MPC5200 chip reliability test and verification, he could meet the requirements of changing production. Sales could normally receive orders at home, the factory started the packaging and testing machine, and the boss could count money while lying down. In fact, he was wrong.

In his previous life, he was a motor manufacturer, and the company had its own brand. After passing the reliability test, he could go, so there was no problem with the operation.

However, the business model of Mingyueguang IC factory is different. It is an OSAT factory, can it go?Clients need to nod in agreement.

OSAT stands for Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Testing, which literally means semiconductor packaging and testing outsourcing.

Unlike other industries, there is an obvious division of labor in the semiconductor industry chain. The reason is that IC design is highly technical, and professionals need to have rich experience. At the same time, companies must be able to accept the risk of continuous trial and error. On the other hand, IC Manufacturing is automated fine processing, the investment in equipment is huge, the construction cycle of the production line is long, and the operation and management must be very experienced. Therefore, the entire industrial chain is gradually divided into foundries with production lines and IC design houses without production lines. Clear industrial division of labor.

IC design house refers to the chip design company also called Fabless. Yuan Chengxu works in Fabless company. This kind of company usually rents a few offices in the office building, recruits a few experienced DEs, buys some EDA software, and can start designing a simple integrated circuit.

The chips designed by the chip design company will be produced by the foundry. The chip manufacturing is divided into wafer foundry and packaging and testing foundry.

The wafer foundry is also called the Foundry factory. After Foundry completes the manufacturing of the wafer, the finished product is sent to the OSAT packaging and testing foundry for packaging and testing, and qualified chips can be used in the terminal.

If a company can do both chip design and chip manufacturing, such a company is called IDM. A mode to play.

Strictly speaking, Motorola Semiconductor is an IDM company with its own packaging and testing factory, but this industry giant, when its own production capacity is not enough, also finds a foundry to produce.

According to Motorola Semiconductor's requirements for foundries, if the chip sample has been packaged and tested, an audit team will be organized to conduct a Qualification Audit. This audit is a 360-degree audit without blind spots. If both are passed, the SCM can apply to create a supply in the SAP system. Vendor Code is included in the company's qualified supplier list.

Without a Vendor Code, purchases cannot operate in the SAP system even if they want to place an order.

After the ITization of management, no process can be surpassed. Dealing with such a world-class customer is really an eye-opener!Xin Tong suddenly felt that he had changed from an omnipotent hero to an ignorant elementary school student.

He clumsily clicked on the Audit Schedule attached to Allan's email.In this audit plan, the composition of the audit team is mentioned. There are two members, namely SQE Roger from the global supply chain SCM and PE David from the process technology department.

SCM is the abbreviation of Supplier Chain Management, SQE is the abbreviation of Supplier Quality Engineer, PE needless to say, is the abbreviation of Process Engineer.

Obviously this review is mainly for quality and workmanship.

The review date is December [-]th.

Xin Tong saw it, good things come in pairs, this double twelve is a good day!Xin Tong pinched his fingers and calculated, there are still ten days.

Then, he lightly clicked on QSA. Sheet1 was the cover, which said Quality System Audit. It listed thirteen audit projects, such as contract review, document control, instrument calibration, etc., covering the main processes of each functional department. , and there is a visual radar chart next to it.

Each audit project of the system has a sheet with more than ten questions on it, which requires self-assessment and evidence of self-assessment.

oh!It turned out that this was about the audit of the system, Xin Tong suddenly realized.

No wonder Motorola arranged for SQE Roger to review it, he must be in charge of this aspect.Xin Tong speculated in his mind.

He finally clicked on QPA, and Sheet1 is the cover, which says Quality Process Audit, which lists the main processes of the packaging and testing factory as audit items, such as incoming material inspection, wafer thinning, wafer cutting, bonding, etc., next to it There is also a radar chart.

There is a sheet for the audit project of each process, and there are more than ten questions on it, which need to be self-assessed and provide scoring evidence.

oh!It turned out that this was an audit about the process, and Xin Tong suddenly realized.

Motorola arranged for PE David to review, and he must be responsible for this aspect.Xin Tong speculated in his mind.

He took a quick look and found that there are more than 100 questions in QSA and more than 100 questions in QPA.

According to the requirements on the email, the questions and evidence on the QPA and QSA need to be provided within one week, otherwise the on-site audit time will be delayed.

Snooze?

Xin Tong's gaze stayed on the word "delayed" for a full minute. If the review is not scheduled, according to common sense, the auditor's plan will be disrupted, and it is hard to say when it will be re-arranged.

He pondered in his heart that this audit must be carried out as scheduled and cannot be postponed.

However, Xin Tong had to complete 60 QPA and QSA questions in one week. He had to work five days a week. On average, he had to answer more than 60 questions and provide more than 24 pieces of evidence a day. For him, this meant not sleeping [-] hours a day. It can't be done.

But soon he figured it out. Motorola came to audit the factory, so Mingyueguang Factory should be responsible for the audit. Since the members who came to audit included the customer's quality and engineering personnel, the QSA should be the quality department. Responsible for filling out, the QPA should be filled out by the engineering department.

Thinking about it this way, within seven days, five working days can be completed.

He got up and went to the engineering department office.

"Manager Xin, are you looking for me?" Logitech sat on the desk and raised his head and asked.

"Yes, I want to discuss something with you!"

"Go to the small meeting!"

After the two people sat down in the small conference room, Xin Tong got straight to the point: "Senior Engineer Luo, Allan has received an email. The MPC5200 verification has passed in their Tianjin factory!"

"Good news! Good news!" Luo Gaogong looked happy.

"Motorola's current process is Qualification Audit! Only after passing their strict audit will we have an order." Xin Tong looked embarrassed.

"Manager Xin, Qualification Audit? You have to go to the Quality Department for this, and Mrs. She is in charge of customer audit! I can't get involved in this, and I can't help you!" Luo Gaogong patted Xin Tong on the shoulder.

"Luo Gaogong, there is a QPA in the content of the review. I checked and it's all about manufacturing engineering!"

"Manager Xin, for QPA, please also contact Mrs. She. Our production process has long been standardized, and you can find it in the OA system."

"So both QSA and QPA are looking for She Hua?"

"Yes, you are definitely not wrong to find her!"

After sorting out his thoughts, Xin Tong took a deep breath after coming out of the office of the engineering department, and walked towards the quality department. He told himself that QSA and QPA must not be delayed for a second!
(End of this chapter)