Industries · Manufacturing
Tribble answers your customer’s spec line by line. Engineering signs off.
RFQs, quality questionnaires, substance surveys, plant changes and TISAX and CMMC requests, answered from what your engineering, quality and compliance owners already approved.
Quality questionnaires · IATF 16949, AS9100 and customer-specific requirements
Tribble answers for each plant from that plant’s own certificates.
A customer’s supplier self-assessment goes site by site: which standards each plant is certified to, the scope and dates on each certificate, and how you meet the customer’s own requirements on top of IATF 16949. Tribble answers every site from the certificates, quality manual and control plans your quality director keeps. When a question reaches past what a certificate on file covers, it goes to quality.
- Certificates, scope and dates for every site, from the certificates on file
- Customer-specific requirements answered from your quality manual and control plans
Every answer names its site, its source and who approved it
Materials and substances · PFAS, REACH, RoHS and conflict minerals
Tribble answers substance surveys one part family at a time.
Every customer sends its own survey: PFAS, REACH candidate list substances, RoHS, and the CMRT and EMRT for minerals. Tribble answers each part family from the declaration your product compliance manager approved for it, including the answers that say yes. A connector with a fluoroelastomer seal is declared as one, with the alternative engineering approved.
- PFAS, REACH and RoHS answers from approved declarations, by part family
- Your current CMRT and EMRT, attached where the survey asks for them
- Each declaration shows who approved it and when
Plant moves and customer notification
When a line moves plants, Tribble shows which customers were told the old one.
Moving production from one plant to another means telling each customer before you ship, and often a new PPAP. Tribble keeps each version of an answer like “where is this part made”, who approved it and every RFQ, questionnaire and survey it went into. Your quality team gets the customers who were given the old site, and sends the notification.
- Each version of an answer, with its approver and date
- Every RFQ, questionnaire and survey each version went into
- Export the record for your change notification. Your team sends it
Supplier reviews · Tribble Engage
Tribble has the follow-up drafted before the supplier review ends.
In the quarterly review, the buyer brings the scorecard and supplier quality brings the open questions: the PPAP level for the new part, a test that is still running, the seal material. Tribble Engage suggests the approved answer as each one comes up, and drafts the follow-up with every answer and its source, saved to Outlook drafts for your account manager to send.
- Approved answers suggested live on recorded calls, with consent
- Follow-ups drafted to Outlook, each answer with its source
- Ask in Teams or Slack between reviews
Cybersecurity · TISAX and CMMC
Tribble keeps the TISAX answer and the CMMC answer apart.
Car makers and their Tier 1s ask for the TISAX label of the site that will hold their prototype data. Defense primes flow down CMMC for the systems that hold controlled unclassified information. Tribble answers each from the summary your security manager approved for that site or enclave, so neither customer gets the other’s answer.
What a supplier gets asked, from the RFQ to the annual survey.
Grouped by who owns the answer. Every one draws on the same approved datasheets, test reports, certificates and declarations.
| Document | What it asks for | Answer it with |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering and RFQs | ||
| RFQs and quote packages | Your answer to every line of the customer’s drawing and spec, and every deviation, stated before the quote goes in | RFP automation → |
| Technical questionnaires | Ratings, materials, test results and compatibility, from approved datasheets and test reports | Proposal automation → |
| Feasibility reviews | Whether the part can be made to the drawing and spec as written, and what would need to change | Proposal automation → |
| Quality | ||
| Supplier quality questionnaires and self-assessments | Certificates by site, your quality system, and the customer’s own requirements on top of IATF 16949 or AS9100 | Proposal automation → |
| PPAP and first article questions | Which elements you submit at which level, and how you run first article inspection to AS9102 | Proposal automation → |
| Change notifications | Which customers to tell when a site, material or process changes, and what each was told before | Proposal automation → |
| Materials, trade and sustainability | ||
| Substance surveys | PFAS, REACH candidate list substances and RoHS, by part or part family | Proposal automation → |
| Conflict and extended minerals | The CMRT for tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold, and the EMRT for cobalt, mica and battery minerals | Proposal automation → |
| Sustainability and carbon requests | Emissions by site, product carbon footprint and the customer’s sustainability questionnaire | Proposal automation → |
| Country of origin | Origin and tariff classification by component | Proposal automation → |
| Cybersecurity | ||
| TISAX | The label and assessment level for each site that handles a car maker’s data or prototypes | Security questionnaires → |
| CMMC and DFARS flow-downs | Your CMMC level and assessment for the systems that hold controlled unclassified information | Security questionnaires → |
| Supplier security questionnaires | Information security, access and incident response for every other customer | Security questionnaires → |
Tribble reads your datasheets, certificates and test reports where they already live.
Datasheets and certificates in SharePoint, past RFQs in Google Drive, engineering notes in Confluence and Jira, account history in Salesforce. Tribble connects to them and keeps each one’s permissions.
Tribble answers from your test reports. A general AI tool answers from the internet.
| Compare | Generic AI | Tribble |
|---|---|---|
| Answers from | Public training data | Your datasheets, test reports, certificates and declarations |
| A requirement you don’t meet | Can write “Comply” anyway | Routed to engineering, who states the deviation |
| Certificates | Doesn’t know which plant holds which | Each plant’s own certificates, with their dates |
| Substance surveys | Generic statements | The declaration product compliance approved for that part family |
| When a line moves plants | Nothing updates | Every customer who was told the old site |
| When a customer asks who approved it | No record | Who approved each answer, and when |
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FAQ
Common questions.
Does Tribble decide whether a part meets our customer’s spec?
No. Tribble drafts each answer from the datasheets and test reports your engineers approved, with the source on each. A requirement your approved data doesn’t cover goes to engineering, and a person approves every answer before it goes back.
Can Tribble state a deviation in an RFQ?
Yes. When the spec asks for more than your approved data covers, Tribble routes that line to the engineer who owns it and names the gap. Their wording becomes the deviation in the customer’s file, and the answer for the next RFQ on that spec.
Does Tribble approve PPAP or certify our quality system?
No. Your customer approves PPAP and first articles, and your certification body certifies your quality system. Tribble answers questions about them from the certificates, procedures and records your quality director approved. Tribble itself is SOC 2 Type II compliant.
We run several plants with different certificates. How does Tribble keep them straight?
Tribble ties each answer to the site it was approved for, so a question about one plant never gets another plant’s certificate.
Can Tribble answer PFAS, REACH and conflict minerals surveys?
Yes. Tribble answers from the declarations your product compliance team approved for each part family, and attaches your current CMRT or EMRT where the survey asks for it.
We sell several product lines. Will answers get mixed up?
No. Tribble ties each answer to the product line it was approved for, and each source keeps its permissions.
What happens when a spec, material or plant changes?
Tribble shows every RFQ, questionnaire and survey that used the old answer, and who approved it. The new answer goes back to its owner before it’s reused, and your team decides which customers to notify.
Can account managers use Tribble in supplier reviews?
Yes. Tribble Engage suggests approved answers live on recorded calls, answers in Teams or Slack between reviews, and drafts the follow-up to Outlook.
Bring an RFQ that’s waiting on engineering.
Send a redacted RFQ, spec or supplier questionnaire. We’ll answer it from your own datasheets and certificates on the call, and show you which lines Tribble would route to engineering, quality and product compliance. If you don’t have one handy, we’ll use ours.
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