Automotive Quality
In today’s extremely aggressive automotive market, vehicles provide more and more features which are required to last longer than ever. Additionally our society is becoming more safety conscious, compounded by an associated increase in legal responsibility, which requires automobile manufacturers to scrutinize their designs more closely for potential safety and regulatory concerns. With the advent of the TS-16949 standard, quality systems and the resulting documentation can also become a burden. Compliance with these standards is not enough to assure the quality of products or the level of customer satisfaction achieved.
Tools such as FMEA, Value Stream mapping and Kaizen events have been instrumental in ensuring that not only do our clients incorporate unspoken customer wants necessary to maintain strategic positioning, they deliver the unknown excitement factor that is instrumental in propelling their product to the front of the market. Quality Associates International can deliver:
- Understanding of and compliance with TS-16949 standards.
- Streamlined requirements of all business systems into one integrated QOS - Quality Operating System
- Lean FMEA activities which support and streamline requirements of the TS-16949 standard.
- Intimate knowledge and practical application of the AIAG APQP tools.
- Uniquely structured efficiency models designed to facilitate the accurate capture of output information from one tool into the appropriate input of various other tools within the APQP toolbox for accurate conveyance of key information identifying customer wants, needs and desires to product deliverables
- Technical Risk Mitigation Processes
- Design Verification - DVP&R
- Specification Development and Cascades from the Voice of the Customer (VOC)
- Design for Assembly and Manufacturing
- Process optimization and Lean events
- Toyota Production System (TPS)
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