Engineering Material Specification: Controlled Document at Page 1 of 3
Engineering Material Specification: Controlled Document at Page 1 of 3
Engineering Material Specification: Controlled Document at Page 1 of 3
1. SCOPE
2. APPLICATION
2.1 Definitions
3. REQUIREMENTS
Substance restrictions imposed by regulations or Company direction applies to the materials addressed by
this document. The restrictions are identified in the Restricted Substance Management Standard WSS-
M99P9999-A1.
Material suppliers and part producers must conform to the Company's Quality System
Requirements.
Suppliers desiring approval of their materials shall first obtain an expression of interest from
Purchasing, Design or Product Development, and Materials Engineering. The supplier shall submit
a completed copy of their laboratory test reports, signed by a qualified and authorized representative
of the test facility, demonstrating full compliance with all the requirements of the Material
Specification. Tested material samples must be available for review upon request and kept for a
minimum of one year. Upon request, the supplier will review the associated quality control
documents (Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Control Plans, Certification testing) with
Ford.
Approved Materials are those that appear on the ASL and must meet the specification for which they
are listed.
When a Ford Engineering Material Specification is used, only the materials on the ASL shall be
selected and those materials must come from the listed suppliers.
WSS-M99P1111-A
Ford Motor Company, at its discretion, may establish and maintain IR spectra and thermograms for
initial approval of materials such as, but not limited to, plastics and elastomers.
When established, these IR spectra and thermograms shall constitute the reference standard and
shall be kept on file at the designated material laboratory. The material supplier shall ensure that all
future material supplied to the specification shall produce IR spectra and thermograms that
correspond to the reference standard when tested under the same conditions.
All test values are based on material conditioned in a controlled atmosphere of 23 +/- 2 °C and 50
+/- 5% relative humidity for not less than 24 h prior to testing and tested under the same conditions
unless otherwise specified.
Requirements beyond those explicitly stated in this document and the material specification may be
specified on the Engineering drawing, Engineering specification (ES), performance specification,
System Design Specification (SDS) and/or Attribute Requirement List (ARL).
All materials must be equivalent in all characteristics to the material upon which approval was
originally granted.
Prior to making any changes to the material originally approved, whether or not such changes
affect the material's ability to meet the specification requirements, the supplier shall notify the
affected Supplier Technical Assistance (STA), Purchasing, and Materials Engineering activities
of the proposed changes (with reasons) by submission of a completed Suppliers Request for
Engineering Approval, SREA.
For parts and components using Ford Material Specifications all samples tested to the Ford
Performance specifications for Design Verification (DV), Production Verification (PV) and
Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) sign off must be kept until Job 1.
Follow CAD and Drafting Standard E-4 for requirements and identification of regrind content.
4. GENERAL INFORMATION
This information given below is provided for clarification and assistance in meeting the requirements of
this specification. Contact gmfs@ford.com for questions concerning Engineering Material Specifications.
WSS-M99P1111-A
5. SUMMARY OR REVISIONS
2012 04 04
- Revised regrind requirement from WSS-M99P42-A3 (cancelled) to CAD and Drafting Std. E-4.
2012 01 31
- Removed annual revision from section 2.
- Added references to WSS-M99P9999-A1 and FAP 03-032.
- Removed references to WHT-X and WSS-M99A3-A
- Moved Approval of Materials section into requirements, clarified and added test sample retention
period.
- Section 3.5 defined acronyms
- Removed note section, duplicate to Approval of Material Section and added tested part retention date.
- Moved regrind section 3.7 to WSS-M99P42-A3
- Removed definitions section
-Added General Information section