| 07/08/2024 |
PCN-24-212252 - Location Change. Due to Force Majeur declaration of one of our major plating suppliers, we must release multiple alternative plating locations and suppliers to avoid potential delivery disruptions. In the attachment you will find further information. We hereby inform you about alternative suppliers and insourcing into our internal plating facility. We will move forward with fast track production release for the metal contacts being used as components in our connectors. Supplier and in-house plating have already confirmed the technical feasibility via sample trials or via previous series production releases. The new plating supplier (internal/external) will perform the standard control and quality measures which are performed on individual production batches, which are obligatory to comply with our internal series production and our product specification. - Thickness measurements - optical, dimensional and adhesion tests Minor optical difference may be possible due to different tooling All other process steps during the manufacturing of our products will remain according to our existing releases. The alternative plating supply chain does not change fit, form or function of the product but implies a manufacturing location change. VDA would demand the inspections to be done on the finished goods for a manufacturing location change, due to critical timing we must deviate from this and perform inspections before final assembly of connectors. If you as a customer cannot accept this internal approval process, please raise your concerns immediately. In case we do not receive any information from you till July 5th 2024 we understand this as an approval and can continue to ship products independently of the plating location. TE will proactively contact its main first tier customers who own the product design and integration for deviation approvals prior to shipment.
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