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.
QUALITY POLICY
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.