Quality Management

VDA Volume 6 Part 3 - Process audit - Requirements of the Verband der Deutschen Automobilindustrie for the processes inside the automotive industry

Benefits of VDA 6.3:

The VDA QMC defined quality standards for the German automotive industry and published them in the VDA 6.X volumes. Those documents provide the automotive industry, its suppliers and other attached services a consistent and measurable scoring process for their quality systems.

The process audit based on VDA 6.3 is a fundamental tool to control processes inside the automotive industry. The capability to generate high-level quality within the processes is assessed and awarded. The main goal is to finally achieve processes that are robust against failures in daily work life. The VDA process audit controls the process of product development, series production and related services.

Our Range of Services:

We will train your staff to understand the needs of this standard for process audits with its automotive specific requirements. You can decide whether the course is held in your local facility or in a perfectly-equipped conference center (to keep the daily routines at bay). We can also offer to establish a process audit system conforming to VDA 6.3 in your company as a consulting service. In this case our experts will explain the requirements to you and your staff in a step by step manner defining all necessary activities and parameters. This will provide you with the required knowledge and practical experience.

Content:

In this course participants will learn to determine when and where process audits should be performed. Special emphasis is placed on the advantages of a project-oriented approach. Process assessments, performed at regular intervals matching project milestones, support the early identification of design and planning deficiencies.

- Relations and differences between system and product audits
- Scope and specific processes in your company
- Fundamental requirements regarding your company
- Auditor requirements
- Process definition, structure and interfaces
- Checklist compilation and audit preparation
- Assessment criteria and results
- Deficiencies, resulting corrective action and follow-up
- Process audits of design activities and volume production (application, structure, issues, requirements and
  fundamentals)
- Process audits of service development and provision (application, structure, issues, requirements and
   fundamentals)
- Stabilizing in-house processes with respect to the growing requirements of the market
- Controlling internal and external audit activities
- Qualifying your processes according to VDA 6.3