VITART is IATF 16949: 2016 certified, the specific standard for the Quality Management System for the Automotive field.

The purpose of the Automotive QMS standard is the development of a quality management system that feeds continuous improvement, emphasizes the prevention of defects and the reduction of variability and losses in the supply chain.

The ISO 9001: 2015 standard for the management of the Quality System is the referring standard of IATF 16949: 2016.

FUNDAMENTALS OF THE IATF NORM 16949: 2016:

• Orientation to customer satisfaction
• Leadership and staff involvement
• Process approach
• Continuous improvement
• Approach by risk analysis
• Multidisciplinary approach

ITS ADVANTAGES:

• Being able to prove to be a mature organization and with a QMS that meets the most recent requirements of manufacturing industry;
• Acquire the ability to manage change, with particular attention to risk management;
• Improve in flexibility and adaptability, necessary requirements for the manufacturing industry;
• Develop a process approach and better cost management;
• Adopt a clear focus on continuous improvement (defect prevention, reduction of variations, waste).

What's more compared to ISO 9001: 2015?  IATF 16949: 2016 emphasizes requirements such as:

• The issuance of a business plan with attention to efficiency performance as well as effectiveness. In particular, an assessment of the costs of non-quality, customer delivery performance and production system efficiency is required;
• Organization chart of quality on all shifts;
• Production blocking authority in the case of non-compliant production;
• Identification in the context of the documentation of the technical specifications and the drawings of any molds and equipment;
• Identification of all the mandatory points on the product;
• Risk Based Thinking approach for the product and process based on the FMEA technique;
• Identification and management of critical features;
• APQP  Advanced Product Quality Planning;
• PPAP  Process to approve the Start Of Production (SOP) of new products;
• Issuance of specific control plans for the prototype, pre-series and series with highlighting of critical characteristics;
•  Awareness of the operators  to the critical characteristics;
• Development of the supplier quality system basing at least on the ISO 9001 standard;
• SPC  Statistical Process Control;
• MSA  Analysis of measurement systems;
• Reduction of machine set-up times;
• Preventive and predictive maintenance;
• Plant planning and layout;
• Segregation of non-compliant products and management of non-compliant suspects;
• Process and product Audits;
• Data analysis and problem solving methods;
•  Check of the impact of corrective actions  ;
• Fail-safe systems (poka yoke);
• Emergency plans.