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IATF 16949
What has changed? 2021 July Update on IATF Sanctioned Interpretations
On 21July 2021, IATF has revised and reissued a number of Sanctioned Interpretations (SIs) related to the IATF 16949 scheme. Two revised SIs on SI 3 and SI 10 Two new SIs numbered SI 21 and SI 22 The revised SI 3 is related to 6.1.2.3 (Contingency Plans) and is effective November 2021 SI 3 …
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Industry Update Seminar on AIAG VDA FMEA- Feb 2021
February started with our team kept busy for our Industry Update Seminar series. On 4 February 2021, Our Industry Update Seminar series ran the AIAG VDA FMEA update. This seminar was held due to popular demand as many of our clients feedback that they could not make it to the last one we had in early December 2020. …
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3 Perspectives: Why is it important to maintain auditor competency?
For many organizations implementing the IATF 16949 system, qualifying and maintaining auditor is always a process requiring more resources and time consuming. Compared to the typical ISO9001, IATF specifically require a longer and more in-depth list of competencies as stated in the requirements under 7.3.2 Internal auditor competency, as follows: Quality management system auditors shall …
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Virtual Seminar for AIAG VDA FMEA – 3 Dec 2020
On 3 Dec 2020, Our Industry Update Seminar series ran the AIAG VDA FMEA update. The seminar was held in virtual mode online, with participation of of close to 100 delegates from more than 50 organizations within the automotive supply chain. It was great to see such enthusiasm despite the country-wide lockdown movement control restriction …
Remote Audit is Now Allowed by IATF
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 …
Who is the Ultimate Process Owner for FMEA?
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, …
IATF 16949 Sanctioned Interpretations is Updated – August 2020!
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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AIAG VDA FMEA: Why is the three-tier structure built into the new FMEA?
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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Covid-19 Guidance for Certification Added IATF Monitoring Process
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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