

IATF 16949
IATF16949 standard was jointly developed by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). This standard harmonized the requirement of AVSQ (Italian), EAQF (French), QS-9000 (U.S.) and VDA6.1 (German). This is a quality management system standard for the supplier in the automotive supply chain. This is the basic requirement of automotive customer like Ford, GM, BMW, Volkswagen, Fiat, Visteon, Delphi etc. in supplier qualification process.

This standard defined the expectation of the automotive customer to the suppliers’ quality management system. It emphasis:
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Continual improvement.
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Defect prevention.
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Reduction of variation and waste.
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Application of process approach to improve organization efficiency.