IATF 16949 - Expert Advice Community

2nd Party Audit

I have a question regarding 2nd party audits. I am Quality Assurance Manager. I fully manage internal audit program for last 15 years. I attended and successfully completed Internal Auditor training where obtained Internal audit certificate for ISO9001:2015, AS9100D, IATF16949:2016 from QPS Institute and IATF16949:2016 Quality Management System Auditor Training including AIAG Core Tools provided by IATF Certified Lead Auditor.

Can I conduct 2nd party audits, or I must attend special lead internal audit training and obtain Lead Internal audit certificate?

Archiving period for Documents in IATF 16949

I want to know the archiving period for Documents in the IAtf 16949

Green field plant IATF certification

Hello,

We are into setting up a new plant(green field project). Please guide, what are the pre-requisite related to product and process records before going for the certification.

IATF 16949 People engagement

I am QMS Engineer for tier 1 automotive. How do I get the team (Top Management) engaged. GM supports me but has no time for anything regarding systems. I audit, I execute and escalate. Then nothing from Management or I get "Why is this happening". You have to drive the system. Maybe I am missing an execution strategy. So I never finish anything because another fire is ready to put out.

Process turtle for Customer Specific Requirements

Hi-quick question.  Is it ok to have a process turtle for Customer Specific Requirements?

SPC for big subgroups

Hello. I have been working with SPC Xbar-R charts, for measurements samples sizes from 1 to 7 .

Now I have a situation that I am not sure how to handle: In a new process we got, there is a measurement machine that performs thickness measurements from one sample and the result we got (from 30K-10K measurements) are Average, Max, Min.

I was asked to use SPC to keep track of the process performance using this three data. I am a little bit confused since the sample from I got the three statistics (Avg, max and Min) is really big so I cannot apply the typical SPC ideas.

First, I tried to use this three data for a Xbar-R chart, but it is clearly wrong since the sample I am using (3 data) comes from a bigger sample (10K-30K). I was thinking to use Xbar-S chart, but I am afraid it will be the same problem.

Thank you very much in advance.

Creation of training procedure

I just got an assignment from the Quality Manager to create a training procedure.
I'm new to the industry and I am the HR Manager. I feel lost in the sauce. Can you help?

Change management process

Following the process activities, the escalation courses a change request do we need to trigger a change management process? For instance, a user cannot access the website because there's a problem with a rule within the firewall, it's not a major incident but creates a change.

Process owner of Training plan documents

 I just have a question. Who is the process owner of Training plan documents? HR or department heads?

Timeline for processes audit

Can you please verify: do we audit all processes 1 time for every 3 years (=3 times in a 3-year cycle) or is it only 1 time in 3 years?

It states that we have to audit all processes over a 3 year cycle/audit program/period.

Do we audit all process each year during the 3 years, which would equal 3 audits per process or,

Do we audit 1 time during the 3 year period so each process is audited 1 time in 3 years?
I am trying to get clarification on the requirement.

I believe, and in my past experiences, I have audited all processes each year in a 3 year cycle, so each process is audited 3 times in the 3 year cycle.

(in other words each process-full QMS processes must be audited every year)

The question has arrised at my new place of employment, but the standard is not clear.