After PSA and FCA merged to form Stellantis group, both organizations started aligning their requirements to leverage synergy. This article highlights the top 10 changes you need to know while collaborating with this client.
How to describe company processes using a Turtle Diagram
One of the fundamental activities within the Quality Management System involves accurately describing the company's processes. The Turtle Diagram serves as a practical tool to facilitate the completion of Process Cards during this stage.
Physical Security: 10 Essential Practices for TISAX Implementation
Physical security is one of the elements assessed to obtain the TISAX label. Before preparing for this assessment, it is helpful to learn about 10 effective practices that can prevent non-compliance during third-party audits and improve the physical safety of your production facility.
Remote Management Reviews: Effective strategies and Case Study insights
Management review is an activity required by standards such as ISO and IATF. In recent years, due to the pandemic accelerating digitization, management reviews have also found a space to be carried out remotely.
What’s the difference between Identification and Traceability?
Identification and traceability are crucial for managing the status of produced parts. Additionally, they are important elements in quality problem analysis, as they help reduce the suspect population of parts and thus lower costs.
Incoming Inspection Simplified: 3 Effective Management Strategies
Incoming Inspection is designed to detect non-compliant parts from sub-suppliers before they reach the production line. When planning this process, it is important to understand strategies that can enhance its management.
FMEA: Introduction to key Risk Analysis in Automotive
Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is an analytical technique that combines technology and implementation team experience. It is used to predict and identify failure modes in a product or process.
Cartoon Engineering – what it is and how to use it in processes improvement
Cartoon Engineering, also referred to as a mock-up, despite being associated with a TV channel known from cartoons, is one of the many well-known tools used in processes improvement.
CQI-15 2nd Edition: Key Updates and Industry 4.0 Challenges
The second edition of the CQI-15 manual covers the latest and most widely used welding methods and techniques, ensuring a consistent management system for welding processes in production facilities and services.
DOJO – How to effectively perform onboarding for production employees
The term "DOJO" comes from Japanese and defines a place for combat sports training. The automotive industry borrowed this phrase and used it for onboarding training of production employees. The core idea is to transfer all necessary knowledge "off the production line" before the employee starts working in the standard cycle at their station.