The fifth Revision of the IATF Measures Against Covid-19 document dated 30 October 2020 introduces the option of remote auditing. Remote audit can be applied for Initial, surveillance and re-certification audits. The primary key points are summarized below. IATF requires that audits due from 1 January 2021 onwards be conducted onsite or remotely. This would
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After having delivered close to 20 years of FMEA workshops, one question we have always asked the workshop participants is ” Who is the rightful process owner of FMEA?”. Most of the time the answer we hear from the participants is either Cross functional team or multidisciplinary team. However, when probed for the actual practice,
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Last week, IATF published additional updates on the Sanctioned Interpretations document. An additional SI #19 on section 8.4.2.4 for Supplier Monitoring is put up. This updates solves a decade-old of an issues related to premium freight for suppliers. For years, many organizations implementing the IATF 16949 scheme has always raise this question: ‘why do i
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In the past, when team convene to perform FMEA, there is a generic intuition that team members would draw on their experience when identifying failure modes. While past experience is a good source of reference, sole dependence on this as a source for identifying failure modes often leads to poor coverage for FMEA scope. This
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IATF has just updated the Covid-19 measures guidance for certification audit. It’s now at revision 2 dated 27 April 2020 with a new section for IATF16949 monitoring. IATF has clarified that the IATF16949 monitoring is NOT a remote audit like what other ISO-related schemes are performing. Instead, it is a temporary measure for ‘surveillance’ purpose
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With the Covid-19 lock-down period extended for most countries around the world, some impending questions begin to rise as we work from home. Below we have compiled some of the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for reference. If you have other situation not addressed here, contact us at contact@leoardent.com. Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Q1: With
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As everyone stays at home for respective countries’ lockdown, be it Movement Control Order in Malaysia or Circuit Breaker in Singapore, some of us may find ourselves working from home. The longer the lock down period stretches, the more worries we have over impending deadlines. One of them is next certification audit dates for our
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Customer Specific Requirement or more commonly known by their acronym, CSR, is often a confusing terminology for many. The term CSR is often incorrectly used interchangeably with the term customer requirements (CR). What is the difference between CSR and CR? In the context of IATF 16949 for automotive industry, the definitions are clearly stated as
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Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) is structured approach to introduce a new product from conceptual stage to eventual mass production. The term APQP was first used in the automotive industry and later adopted in aerospace supply chain. APQP is not necessarily alien to other industries as the process of introducing a new product or service
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The AS9100 family of standards is an ISO 9001 based standard with additions and interpretations specific to the aerospace industry with emphasis placed on areas having the greatest impact on safety, reliability and regulatory compliance for aerospace products. The latest revision to AS9100 is published as AS9100D in the US and coded as EN9100:2016 in
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