One of the most important changes from ISO to IATF is the requirement of more documentation and documented evidence, including but not limited to:. Inclusion of customer-specific requirements. Accountability and safety. The quality management system now mandates that manufacturers implement Corporate Responsibility policies, including those for anti-bribery, codes of conduct, and ethics escalation policies. Risk awareness and analysis. Companies wishing to be certified will be assessed against this standard.
This certification is for organizations involved in the automotive supply chain, applicable to sites where production or service parts are manufactured for the original equipment market. All requirements of IATF are applicable unless suppliers do not provide product design related functions.
Requirements are generic and are intended to be applicable to any supplier providing design and development, production and, when relevant, assembly, installation and services of automotive related products, including products with embedded software.
The standard is based on seven Quality Management Principles, including a strong customer focus, the motivation and implication of top management, the process approach and continual improvement. Akebono Brake has been the official supplier of brakes for the McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 Team in , whose driver Lewis Hamilton became World Champion in ; this successful connection of Akebono Brake with McLaren has led the business growth and increased the number of enquiries of manufacturers from European countries.
Moreover, business progress is going more smoothly since the company has acquired the certification because customers have built trust on the company. This standard is a globally recognized quality management standard for the automotive industry and integrates a collection of standards from across Europe and the US. In addition, it offers a framework for achieving best practice in an organization regarding the design and manufacturing of products and parts that go into the automotive supply chain.
It provides detailed requirements regarding the quality management system during the production process, as well as, the assembling and maintenance of products linked with the automotive sector.
Furthermore, the monitoring , supervision, and measuring of equipment, analysis, and improvement of the quality management system in the automotive sector are done by, undertaking preventive measures to lower the creation of variations and eliminate inconsistencies and losses in the supply chain of the production process. It is often stated that ISO certification brings more income and improvement in the performance of companies. The importance of ISO, particularly quality management, in organizations' has risen expressively over the last two decades.
Therefore, companies faced some difficulties working with multiple quality standards. As a result, manufacturing companies had to follow the processes and management systems to comply with all automotive standards.
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