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The article highlights the evolution of various processes and requirements within the automotive industry.

Publish Date:August 01, 2023

In December 2021, the IATF released Communique 2021-012 concerning new auditor training. It requires all new auditor candidates to demonstrate Successful Completion of mandatory pre-study modules before being accepted into a New Auditor Training Event. These modules include Failure Mode and Effects

Publish Date:January 25, 2022

IATF 16949:2016 was revised from ISO/TS 16949:2002 and released in October 2016. IATF 16949:2016 includes ISO 9001:2015 in its entirety within the standard. The structure and content of ISO 9001:2015 changed dramatically and brought in many new concepts into a QMS including risk based thinking, proc

Publish Date:December 14, 2021

There is a proliferation of management system standards and requirements globally. These management system standards are either customer or industry mandated. Many standards are becoming a requirement for doing business (for example, ISO 9001, a Quality Management System standard with industryspeci

Publish Date:September 06, 2021

ISO 9001:2015 and ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2015 have clear expectations for top management. Not only is top management accountable for the "effectiveness"

Publish Date:July 14, 2020

The author of this article, Nikhil Unnikrishnan, is a Certified Green Belt in Lean Six Sigma Methodologies (CLSSGB) and also Certified Quality Process Analyst (CQPA). He is an Exemplar Global certified Lead Auditor for IATF 16949:2016. Mr. Unnikrishnan has extensive experience working on engineering

Publish Date:April 22, 2020

Risk management plays a prominent role in the development of medical devices. The long-awaited Risk Management standard (ISO 14971, 3rd Ed.) was released for publication in late 2019. In addition, there is a new companion guidance document released, known as ISO/TR 24971:2019. Download this article

Publish Date:November 21, 2019

The objective of IATF 16949:2016 Training, is to develop a program for the entire organization whose objective is to increase their preparation so that they can effectively perform their tasks, protect their internal and external customers and their ability for continuous improvement. IATF 16949:

Publish Date:August 27, 2019

In 2014 based on a statement made by the IATF, there was a general feeling that the Automotive Industry would not upgrade the ISO TS 16949 standard to the new ISO 9001. Hearing this news caused some general dismay in the Automotive Industry. In a survey conducted that year, the Tier One suppliers to

Publish Date:July 03, 2019