Common use of Development Planning Clause in Contracts

Development Planning. cunova shall ensure that it provides the contractual partner with the specifications with all relevant documents such as drawings, parts lists and CAD data at an early stage and in full. The contracting party checks the specifications, including all technical documents, for completeness and consistency. cunova must be informed of any defects detected in the process. These are to be eliminated by mutual agreement. The Contractor undertakes to apply project management as early as the planning phase of products, processes and other cross-departmental tasks and to provide cunova with insight into the project schedule upon request. In the development phase, the parties must apply appropriate preventive methods of quality planning such as manufacturability analysis, fault tree analysis, reliability calculation, FMEA, etc. The experience (process flows, process data, capability studies, etc.) from similar projects must be taken into account. Characteristics with special requirements for documentation and archiving must be defined. For prototypes and pre-series parts, the manufacturing and testing conditions must be agreed and documented between cunova and the contractual partner. The aim is to manufacture the parts under near-series conditions. For the agreed product and process characteristics, the contractual partner must carry out and document analyses of the suitability of the production equipment used. If specified capability parameters are not achieved, the contractor must either optimize its equipment accordingly or carry out suitable tests of the manufactured products in order to rule out defective deliveries. Prior to the start of series production, the process and product release procedure must be carried out in accordance with cunova's process and procedure instructions. Design or development approvals by cunova must be given prior to the production process and product release procedure.