Supplemental Terms and Conditions

Updated December 4, 2018

As a supplier to Tech Tube, Inc., it is understood that your organization agrees to meet the following stipulations / AS9100 requirements with a Tech Tube Purchase Order.

  1. Tech Tube, Inc. requires that our supplier maintain the proper identification and revision status specifications, drawings, process requirements, inspection/verification instructions and other relevant technical data.
  2. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right of final approval of product and services, methods processes and equipment, and the final release of products and services.
  3. Tech Tube, Inc. requires that all special processes required by the purchase order must be performed by competent qualified personnel.
  4. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to identify the requirements for interaction with our suppliers including.  1. The use of interactive documentation. 2. The use of email/Fax 3. Documented confirmation methods of all verbal interactions.
  5. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to monitor our supplier’s performance including. 1. Supplier Risk 2. Quality of product or service delivered. 3. On time delivery of product or service.
  6. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to designate requirements for verification or validation activities that we or our customer, intend to perform at the supplier’s premises.
  7. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to approve or specify any special requirements, critical items, or key characteristics;
  8. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to approve or specify any test, inspection, and verification (including production process verification);
  9. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to approve or specify the use of statistical techniques for product acceptance and related instructions for acceptance by our organization.
  10. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to require the need from suppliers to:
    1. Implement a Quality Management System and we reserve the right to review and approve the suppliers Quality Management System.
    2. Require that the supplier uses customer-designated or approved external suppliers including process sources (e.g., special processes).
    3. Require the supplier to notify our organization of nonconforming product or services immediately upon discovery and obtain our organizational approval for nonconforming product disposition.  
    4. Wherever applicable we reserve the right to require suppliers to show evidence of processes to prevent the use of counterfeit parts. 
    5. Suppliers are required to: Notify our organization of changes in product and/or process, changes of suppliers, and changes of manufacturing facility locations, our organization reserves the right to approve such changes. 
    6. Suppliers are required to: Flow down to the supply chain the applicable requirements including customer requirements.
    7. Tech Tube, Inc. requires that all suppliers are to retain all records associated with the purchase orders for a minimum of 10 years.  Our organization requires the disposition of such documents to be controlled in accordance with the requirements of applicable QMS’s.
  11. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right of access by our representatives, our customers, and any 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.
  12. Tech Tube, Inc. reserves the right to require and request evidence of suppliers  ensuring that their personal are aware of: − their contribution to product or service conformity; − their contribution to product safety; − the importance of ethical behavior.