Section 39 of 104
37. Initial Manufacturing Baseline
Stable section ID: S05-CON-016-SECTION-39 · 17 content blocks
The Initial Manufacturing Baseline shall establish controlled and traceable production of the first Node, Cartridge, Interface, and Smart Module Components.
Initial production may use conventional machining, fabrication, casting, forming, additive manufacturing, composite processing, or hybrid methods appropriate to prototype and low-volume production.
Each Product shall be manufactured from an approved configuration containing:
drawings and digital models;
material Specifications;
tolerances and datum definitions;
process requirements;
tooling and fixture requirements;
inspection characteristics;
marking and identity requirements;
acceptance criteria;
revision status.
Manufacturing records shall identify facility, equipment, operator or automated process, material lot, process Version, inspection results, Nonconformities, rework, and release authority.
Prototype manufacturing shall remain distinguishable from production-qualified manufacturing.
Special processes whose results cannot be fully verified through final inspection shall require additional process control and qualification.
Distributed manufacturing shall not begin at unrestricted scale until the reference process, measurement methods, Conformance artifacts, and facility-participation requirements have been demonstrated.
The initial baseline should prioritize manufacturability, repeatability, inspection, and learning rather than premature production volume.