Epidemiologic Studies

Rocky Flats Plant Site

Vendor Purchase Orders (POs), 1961-1988

Location:

Active:
Inactive: RF-881 Archives, Room 214

Arrangement: Numerical by purchase order number

Originating Office: Final Quality Assurance and Certification Organization and Quality Certification Organization of Dow Chemical Company and Rockwell International

Finding Aids: Records Storage Receipt

Disposition Authority: 1) Records schedule under revision; 2) DOE (1988) 3.4

Series Description: Purchase Orders document the purchase, shipment, and quality of weapon components made by vendors. The orders include purchase document numbers; supplier addresses; "F.U. Codes"; seller and code numbers; delivery dates; requisition, job, item, and building numbers; Dow Chemical Company or Rockwell International code numbers; material and specifications descriptions; quantities; disposition data; authorizing signatures; and unit and total prices. Related documents which may accompany the purchase orders include:

Certificate of Inspection forms contain QA [Quality Assurance] Lot, item identification, and part numbers; part uses; submission status (whether original or resubmission); inspection instructions; lot sizes; material and process certification numbers; dates; remarks; and authorizing signatures.

Field Trip and Inspection Reports were used to record the results of visits made by Rocky Flats personnel to vendor companies to discuss and review vendors' manufacturing processes and to insure that the components met Rocky Flats specifications. These reports include vendor names, addresses, and contact persons; drawing numbers and revision codes; release engineering order numbers; part names and descriptions; supplier evaluation data; remarks; and dates.

High Alloys Analysis Sheets are test results which include customer order numbers, alloy/powder types, meshes, lot numbers, quantities shipped, screen analyses, physical properties, chemical analyses of elements, "green properties," sintering conditions, and sintered properties.

Inspection Data Sheets were used to record the results of component inspections and disposition. The forms contain part type identifiers; casting batch, War Reserve lot, materials specification certification drawing, material type and "po," job and part serial, "I&A" drawing and revision, and Atomic Energy Commission part numbers; overall dispositions; acceptance or rejection dates; and manufacturing disposition codes.

Production Orders (POs) list the proper sequence of operations and inspections for component and assembly manufacturing. They provide serial or lot, part, drawing, Department of Energy, control, deviation, heat/lot, operation, and account numbers; work centers; part descriptions; procedure numbers; employee numbers and names; start and completion dates; quantities; and "data or pendant" numbers.

Quality Control Disposition Cards describe defects and deviations in components found during manufacture and inspection. The cards consist of dates; part names and numbers; shop order numbers; originating departments; operation numbers; machine groups; production operator clock numbers and shifts; inspection stations; quantities received, inspected, and accepted; descriptions and assigned causes of defects; and corrective and deviation actions.
For related records, see Volume IV. Production Orders (POs), 1966, 1970-1973, 1977-1979, ca. 1981-1985; Stockpile Approved Product Records (SAPRs), 1955-1993; and Vendor Inspection and Certification Records, 1963-1980, 1983-1992.

Data Elements: 89, 120