ISO 29001

ISO/TS 16949 is a specification tailored to meet the automotive manufacturer's requirements, particularly Quality, Cost and JIT delivery. It requires effective and efficient processes with contingency plans to assure un-interrupted supplies to the assembly line. It consist of policies and procedures that ensures worldwide consistence with the suppliers of parts, materials, or finishing services.

ISO/TS 16949:2002 is the latest automotive quality standard which was developed to be a new universally accepted quality standard for automobile suppliers. The ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard was developed to be an automotive standard for the customers’ of automotive manufacturers and it is aligned with the ISO-9001: 2002 standard. The purpose of ISO/TS 16949:2002 was to create standardization in the quality management standards for automobile suppliers throughout the world. ISO/TS 16949:2002 is a process approach quality standard, which places requirements that assure consistent quality, throughout organizations that supply automobile manufacturers.

Benefits of ISO/TS 16949:2002

It provides a sequential, process-based approach to

• Identify all the organization's processes affecting product quality
• Determine which of the ISO/TS 16949:2002 requirements are already addressed by the existing processes in the organization
• Find the ISO/TS 16949:2002 requirements not yet addressed by the existing processes in the organization
• Address customer specific requirements in the organization's processes
• It aids the organization in the initial Document Review for the ISO/TS 16949:2002 registration audit
• It increases the organization's awareness of what constitutes a major vs. a minor process, a support process and a customer oriented process. In other words, it helps Quality Managers identify the natural hierarchy of processes that already exists in the organization
• It may reduce the organization's audit costs by fully preparing the organization for the initial document review
• If the organization's processes have addressed all the requirements of the Technical Specification, there is no "automatic" major non-conformance during the initial registration audit for having failed to address a section of the Technical Specification
• Ordinarily, such an initial "automatic" major non-conformance could result in a truncated registration audit and necessitate a second visit by the registrar, thereby increasing costs
• Being fully prepared avoids this potential increased cost

Who is it applicable to?

Automotive manufacturers assure quality by requiring registration to automotive quality standards that provide quality assurance. By requiring ISO/TS 16949:2002 certifications, automobile manufacturers can be assured that all of their suppliers are adhering to a consistent set of quality standards that are strict and intertwined throughout Organizations of all types, sectors and sizes can improve their performance through the implementation of this standard.

How can ISO - Kuwait help you to get ISO/TS 16949 Certification?

ISO - Kuwait will assist your organization in ISO awareness training, documentation, implementation, internal auditing and overall process optimization as per ISO/TS 16949 standard. ISO - Kuwait is a result oriented professional training and certification service providers, offering systematic approaches to improve quality and effectiveness of the system and enhance the productivity by offering systematic approaches. Our main objective is to help you and your organization improve profitability, through better utilization of all of your resources