Automotive Exports – November 2017

Monthly automotive aftermarket magazine
“We Reduce Risks And Manage
Opportunities With IATF 16949”
“Having accomplished transition process from ISO/TS 16494 to IATF 16949
through an surveillance in June, the IAFT 16949 Certification has been acquired
to our Quality System,” Sami Arican, Quality Manager of Kale Oto Radyator
Sami Arican, Quality Manager
of Kale Oto Radyator, told the
company’s transition process to IATF
16949 by saying; “Transition process of
our frim from the ISO/TS 16949 to IATF
16949 has been completed with an
interim surveillance in June 2017, so IATF
16949 Certification has been acquired to
our system.”
General outlook to Automotive Quality
Management System development and
IATF 16949
“Regarding ISO 9001 Quality
Management System not being able
to respond effectively to automotive
manufacturers and supplier industry’s
needs and expectations, the giant
automotive firms have constituted
their own quality systems including
their customer wishes and then they
implemented these systems to their
suppliers. QS 9000 was developed by
the Americans, VDA 6.1 by the German
automotive manufacturers, EAQF by the
Frenches and AVSQ standards by the
Italians. This condition caused confusions
between the firms associated with the
automotive firms in other countries and
automotive supplier firms which want
to make business cooperation as well as
financial losses,” added Arican.
“For this reason, ISO/TS 16949 Technical
Specification has been issued in order to
remove these confusions and varieties.
This standard has been based on the
main conditions of ISO 9001 Quality
Management System standard. It has
become an effective standard for the
automotive sector especially revealing
process approach and customer special
wishes to the forefront.”
Following updated of ISO 9001 standard
in 2015, IATF 16949:2016 has been
issued and the new standard of the
automotive sector has been appeared
in October 2016 by radically updated of
ISO/TS 16949. Together with these new
standards, the standards in America and
Europe have been aligned.
Scope of certification
• Automotive industry manufacturers
• Service parts suppliers
• Parts-compound suppliers, heat
treatment, dying, coating, galvanizing
etc. service suppliers.
Highlights of IATF 16949
• Effective and sustainable Seamless
Recovery Activities
• Activities to prevent faults in the source
• Effective supply chain management
• Product safety
• Integrating with other management
system standards
• Ensuring leadership activities to
engage in the process much more
• Reducing risk and improving
opportunity management via
implementing widely risk oriented
thought
• Customer special wishes
• First and second part Audit Ability
• Manufacturing Feasibility
• Warranty Management
• Development of Products Include
Embedded Software
• Emergency Action Plan
Our suggestions to the sector’s
employees who get ready to this
process with regard to our studies
we did in IATF 16949 Certification
process
• Take training about IATF 16949. Let
process owners absolutely engage in
this training.
• Have at least 2 persons from Interior
auditors in ISO/TS 16949 to get training
of IATF 16949. Provide one of these
people to be from Quality Management
system, as for the other one to be
related processes.
• Risk Management
• Primarily constitute the process about
Risk Management
• Review the process map belonging to
your firm and accomplish the necessary
revisions
• Take into consideration the
connections and interactions in the
process map, do Risk Analyzes of all
processes
• Absolutely include your existing
opportunities that cannot be
transformed to value-added into your
Risk Analyzes
• Prepare Quality Development Plans
for the activities which reveal at the end
of Risk Analyzes and follow effectiveness
of these plans in Upper Management
Leadership
• Even though IATF 16949 does not
specify the necessary terms, revise
Quality Handbook in line with terms of
standard for your quality safety system
effectiveness.
• Review your processes again and
revise the parts should be changed
• Make interior inspections according to
the system’s necessities
• Together with revisions in your
processes let changes that appear in
documentations to adapt to quality
system
• Do Reviewing Meeting of
Administration in the leadership of Senior
Management. Let all process owners
engage in these meetings
• Prepare a schedule which include
aforementioned all activities as well as
including all issues related to transition to
IATF 16949.
• Regarding transition to IATF 16949
must be complete by 14th September
2018; provide surveillance audit at
least by May 2018 so as to not face
without certification against any possible
negativity.
14 NOVEMBER 2017