ISO/DIS 9001 Is Out: What’s Really Changing—and What You Should Do Now
On 27 August 2025 the Draft International Standard (DIS) for ISO 9001 (ISO/DIS 9001)was published, opening a formal 12-week ballot and comment period…
Cost of Poor Quality – How to Reduce it?
In a competitive manufacturing environment, understanding the true cost of poor quality (COPQ) is important for any organization striving for long-term success. The…
Training Within Industry
How do you effectively get a person to understand and execute a task? In Automotive Manufacturing, many OEM’s use a method called Training…
Warranty management – Legal Requirements
Warranty management – its essence, process in the organization and requirements of a quality management system certified for compliance with IATF 16949 were…
Warranty management – the idea, process and QMS requirements
Warranty… how many of us have needed to return an item which didn’t work the way we expected or was defective after a…
Problem Solving Methods – Review of 8D, QRQC and A3
In 2024, the automotive industry’s #1 nonconformity (due to its frequency) in third-party IATF 16949 audits was problem solving. It can therefore be…
Implementing Change Management
There’s one thing that’s always certain to happen and that’s… change! You expect a “normal” day, and something happens which makes you change…
Management review – Effective and without mistakes
Management review is – we dare to call it – the most important activity in quality management system (QMS). It is essential because…
Setting SMART Quality Objectives
“Let’s be SMART this year!” … Always when beginning new year, some of us are asked to consider and refocus our attention on…
Supplier management – How to work with suppliers in the automotive industry
An organization certified for compliance with ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949: 2016 is obligated to make a certain solutions for supplier management. These…
MSA – a comprehensive overview based on AIAG and VDA 5 standards
How does the automotive industry know that the measurement results obtained are reliable? Simply put, through “MSA.” Measurement Systems Analysis plays a key…
Layered Process Audit in the Automotive Industry
Layered Process Audit (LPA) is one of the methods used in the automotive manufacturing world to maintain high quality standards. This article delves…