MIL-STD-1916 DOD Preferred Methods for Acceptance of ProductThe purpose of this standard is to encourage defense contractors and other commercial organizations supplying goods and services to the U.S. Government to submit efficient and effective process control prevention procedures in place of prescribed sampling requirements.

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MIL-STD-1916

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1.	SCOPE .................................................................................................................	1
1.1	Scope..................................................................................................................	1
1.2	Applicability.......................................................................................................	1
1.3	Applications........................................................................................................	1
1.4	Product requirements..........................................................................................	1
1.5	Limitations..........................................................................................................	2
2.	APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS..............................................................................	3
2.1	General...............................................................................................................	3
2.2	Non-Government publication.s............................................................................	3
2.3	Order of precedence............................................................................................	4
3.	DEFINITIONS......................................................................................................	5
3.1	Acronyms used in this standard...........................................................................	5
3.2	Acceptance.........................................................................................................	5
3.3	Contract quality requirement.s.............................................................................	5
3.4	Critical characteristic...........................................................................................	5
3.5	Criticalnonconforming uni.t................................................................................	5
3.6	Government contract quality assuranc.e...............................................................	6
3.7	Inspection...........................................................................................................	6
3.8	Major characteristic.............................................................................................	6
3.9	Major nonconforming uni.t..................................................................................	6
3.10	Minor characteristic............................................................................................	6
3.11	Minor nonconforming uni.t..................................................................................	6
3.12	Nonconformance.................................................................................................	6
3.13	Nonconforming unit............................................................................................	6
3.14	Production interval..............................................................................................	6
3.15	Quality................................................................................................................	6
3.16	Quality assurance................................................................................................	6
3.17	Quality audit.......................................................................................................	6
3.18	Quality program..................................................................................................	6
3.19	Screening inspection............................................................................................	7
3.20	Traceability.........................................................................................................	7
3.21	Verification level (VL)........................................................................................	7
4.	GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.............................................................................	8
4.1	Acceptance by contractor-proposed provision.s...................................................	8
4.1.1	General...............................................................................................................	8
4.1.2	Requirements and procedure.s.............................................................................	8

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