Quick History of TS16949

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Quick History of TS16949

ISO/TS (Technical Specification) 16949 is a quality management system standard specific to the Automotive industry, which includes all the requirements of the ISO 9000 quality management system standard verbatim. In addition, the standard combines the AVSQ (Italian), EAQF (French), ISO-22000 (US) and VDA 6.1 (German) automotive requirements.

Originally published in 1999 by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), ISO/TS 16949 was developed jointly by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF). The IATF consists of an international group of automotive manufacturers and national automotive associations including but not limited to DaimlerChrysler AG, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, BMW and Volkswagen.

ISO/TS 16949, coupled with customer-specific requirements, defines the quality system requirements for use in the automotive supply chain.

Currently, Ford, GM, DaimlerChrysler, BMW, Fiat, PSA Peugeot-Citroen, Renault SA and Volkswagen AG, all accept ISO /TS 16949. By becoming ISO/TS 16949 certified, suppliers can gain a competitive advantage, and benefit from the improved processes and continuous improvement that is the foundation of ISO 9000 certified Quality Management Systems.

In April 2002, a new revised standard ISO/TS 16949:2002 was introduced. The new ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard replaces ISO/TS 16949:1999, VDA 6.1, AVSQ & EAQF certification. Companies currently certified to these quality systems must upgrade their systems to the new ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard by December 15, 2003. In an August 2002 letter, DaimlerChrysler Group, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Corp. have agreed to allow their ISO/TS 16949:1999 certified suppliers an additional one-year grace period, allowing suppliers until December 15, 2004 to transition from ISO/TS 16949:1999 to the 2002 version.

Benefits of ISO/TS 16949

Benefits of becoming ISO/TS 16949 certified include:

• Improved process quality

• Reassignment of supplier resources to quality improvement

• Common quality system approach in the supplier development for consistency

• Additional confidence in global sourcing

• Reduction in second-party audits

• Common language to improve understanding of quality requirements

• Reduction of variation and increased efficiency

• Reduction in multiple third-party registration

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