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Ex. SEC-10-GM-032 Organizer notice Primary source read

PMMI Conducting Virtual FATs Best Practices

Factory acceptance tests (FATs), commissioning, installation and service travel to customer sites (class)

n/a (equipment manufacturers and their CPG/OEM customers) · Manufacturers' plants and customers' plants nationwide, ALL (Organizer)

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The record

Jurisdiction
Manufacturers' plants and customers' plants nationwide, ALL
Level
Organizer
Issued
2020-06-30 June 30, 2020
In force
June 30, 2020 (the notice's date)
Quarters
2020 Q2
Functions reached
  • EV
  • TR
  • DS
  • SC
  • EN
  • CB
Collection
Manufacturing SEC-10

Operative words

PMMI: 'The pandemic has required new methods be established for executing FATs, which are likely to become standard procedures in the post-pandemic ways of working' (June 30, 2020)

The organizer's notice

PMMI Conducting Virtual FATs Best Practices

Notes

2020: In-person FATs and commissioning travel replaced by virtual FATs and deferred installations under stay-at-home, visitor-ban and travel-quarantine orders (New York EO 205 and the tri-State list; Chicago's Emergency Travel Order; Connecticut, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Alaska, New Mexico and other State quarantines; the presidential entry proclamations and DHS land-border notices to Nov. 8, 2021). 2021: Travel quarantines in force into 2021 (New York to Apr. 1/June 25, 2021; Chicago's order converted to an advisory June 29, 2021; Hawaii Safe Travels through Q3 2021); federal entry proclamations and land-border notices to Nov. 8, 2021; the CDC conveyance mask order on every business flight through Q3 2021. Usual dates: Continuous. Scale: PMMI's OpX Leadership Network published virtual-FAT best practices June 30, 2020 because 'The pandemic has required new methods be established for executing FATs'. Venue orders 2020: ECO-C-001, ECO-C-031, ECO-C-005, ECO-C-006, ECO-C-011, MI-027, SEC-10-020, FED-202, FED-203. Venue orders 2021: ECO-C-002, ECO-C-007, HI-023, HI-024, FED-207, FED-208, FED-020, FED-021.