ML20141P180
| ML20141P180 | |
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| Issue date: | 02/06/1986 |
| From: | Merschoff E, Naidu K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| ML20141P173 | List: |
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| REF-QA-99901028 99901028-85-01, 99901028-85-1, NUDOCS 8603190118 | |
| Download: ML20141P180 (4) | |
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k ORGANIZATION: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC.
! JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE REPORT INSPECTION INSPECTION i NO.: 99901028/85-01 CATE(S): 8/28, 29/1985 CH-SITE HOUPS: 12 !
! CORPESPONDENCE ADDRESS: Texas Instruments ATTN: Mr. M. McDonnell Vice President, Industrial
,, Systems Division Erwin Highway l Johnson City, Tennessee 37605-1255 l ORGANIZATIONAL CONTACT: R. Carper TELEPHONE NUMBER: 615-461-2056 PRINCIPAL PRODUCT: Recorders and Process Instruments.
NUCLEAR INDUSTRY ACTIVITY: Less than IP. of the orders are nuclear related.
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/1 AS$!GNED INSPECTOR: ebLv 2/t /d K. R. Naidu, Reactive Inspection Secion (RIS) Date OTHER INSPECTOR (S):
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INSPECTION BASES AND SCOPE:
l A. BASES: 10 CFR Part 21 and 10 CFR 50 Appendh B. ,
B. SCOPE: Review the implementation of Texas Instruments' quality assurance program and 10 CFR Part 21 reporting program.
PLANT SITE APPLICABILITY: Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (50-344).
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JOHNSON CITY, TENFESSEE REPORT INSPECTION NO.- 99001029/85-01 AFSULTS: PAGE 2 of 4 A. Inspection Issues Portland General Electric Company issued Purchase Order (PO) Nos.
N-29235, 29244 and 29235 for the supply of ten TIGRAPH 200 type recorders. The PO required that the recorders meet the requirements of IEEE-323 and IEEE-344 but did not invoke compliance to 10 CFR Part 21 l or 10 CFR 50 Appendix B. Texas Instruments (TI) supplied ten TIGPAPH 200 type recorders to Portland General Electric Company (PGE), Portland,
! Oregon for installation at the Trojan Nuclear Power Plant (Trojan). TI i issued Certificates of Conformance (CoC) stating that the recorders were l qualified to IEEE-323 and IEEE-344 standards. The objective of the inspection was to determine the validity of the CoC.
l B. Background information
! TI manufactures programable controllers and recorders at this manufacturing facility for use at chemical processing plants. TI recently introduced the TIGRAPH 200 process recorder. This equipment l can record analog signals from one to six input channels on heat sensitive paper. Printing is accomplished with a fixed solid state thermal print head having a horizontal print resolution of 100 dots per inch. All moving parts are confined to the chart drive system. TI l stated that they received several inouiries from owners of nuclear power plants concerning these recorders. Florida Power & Light Company and l Tennessee Valley Authority performed pre-award surveys but did not l qualify TI as an approved vendor due to inadequacies of TI's quality l assurance program.
! C. Inspection Results l
l 1. The TI OA manual does not comply with criteria 1. !!, X, and XVI!! of 10 CFR 50 Appendix B. Therefore, the validity of the CoC is questionable to the extent that there is no assurance that recorders manufactured will meet the quality of the recorders which l successfully withstood environmental and seismic tests.
l l 2. T! had not developed and implemented a procedure to evaluate l deviations or inform the licensee or purchaser of the deviations in order that they may evaluate the deviations. However, the l requirements of 10 CFR 21 were not imposed on TI by PGE.
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- ORGANI7.AT!0N: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC.
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REPORT INSPECTION No.- 99001029/85-01 PESULTS: PAGE 3 of 4
- 0. Inspection Findings and Other Comments
- 1. Plant Tour The TI Product Manager accompanied the NRC inspector on a plant tour of the areas associated with receipt inspection, storage of components, assembly of components on printed circuit boards, wave soldering machines, inprocess inspections, assembly of recorders and test of the recorders. Detailed procedures to test the recorders were available at the work station.
- 2. Review of the TI Quality Assurance (0A) Manual Review of the TI QA manual indicated that it does not meet the i requirements of 10 CFR 50 Appendix B in the following areas:
- a. Criterion 1. Section 2 of the QA manual describes the organization of the Industrial Systems Division of the TI facility located in Johnson City. The organization do.es not depict the role of quality control activities in the implementation of this QA program. Job descriptions of the QC/QA personnel are not specified.
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- b. Criterion II - QA Program. Section 3 briefly discusses the TI program which is supplemented by information provided in
, sections 4, 5, 6, and 9. The role of Quality Control is l not adequately described in this section. Furthermore, TI Management's periodic review on the adequacy of the QA program is not specified.
- c. Criterion X - Inspections. Sections 5.5, 5.7, 6.2, 6.3, 1 l 6.9, and 6.13, address the inspections per#ormed during i in-process, final and testino. However, the role of quality control is not mentioned.
l d. Criterion XVIII - Audits. Section 13 describes a system of I
audits to verify compliance to requirements. However, the l frequency of the audits and the qualification of the i auditors are not mentioned. Furthermore, management audits
! or independent audits to determine the adequacy of the QA program are not addressed.
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- l ORGANIZATION: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS, INC.
. JOHNSON CITY, TENNESSEE REPORT INSPECTION NO . 00001n?A/85-01 DESULTS: PAGE 4 of 4
- 3. Peview of Quality Assurance Records
- a. The TI TIGRAPH department maintains a log in which test data on TIGRAPH recorders are documented by the serial numbers. The CoC furnished to PGE listed the serial numbers of the recorders; the inspector reviewed the test data on these serial numbers and determined them acceptable,
- b. Wyle Laboratories, Huntsville, Alabama performed a mild environment aging analysis on the TIGRAPH recorder. The report dated July 1985 summarizes that the process recorder will withstand radiation effects of 5.071 E3 rads gamma (10-year total integrated dose at 33'C (91.4'F)) without deleterious effects.
- c. Wyle Laboratories, Huntsville, Alabama, subjected the recorder to a seismic simulation on May 3 and May 8, 1985 and determined that the specimen possessed sufficient integrity to withstand, without compromise of structure or electrical functions, the prescribed random multi-frequency tests.
1 The CoC is based on the tests perforn.ed on a specimen recorder. TI does not have an acceptable QA program which meets 10 CFR 50 Appendix B. The validity l of the CoC is questionable to the extent that recorders manufactured l
subsequent to the testing may not have the same quality if it is not manufactured under an acceptable QA program.
l D. Persons Contacted l *R. Carper, Product Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments M. Ferguson, Legal Advisor, Texas Instruments D. Schewk, Manager, Quality & Reliability, Texas Instruments l R. Wetherall, Manager, Product Assurance, Texas Instruments D. Fricky, Quality & Reliability Engineer, Texas Instruments G. Bawgus, Product Assurance Inspector, Texas Instruments
- C. Presnell, Marketing Manager, Texas Instruments l
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l E. Exit Interview The inspector met with individuals identified in Section D and l discussed the scope and findings of the inspection, l I
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