Originally developed for J-STD-001B, it is also applicable to current assembly standards. Electronics manufacturers are faced with the difficult task of proving that a candidate manufacturing process can produce acceptable hardware, either to the customer of the product, or for internal quality control. Users have to determine many of the process qualification steps on their own. This document leads you through the task of qualifying a candidate process to J-STD-001. 13 pages. Released January 1998.