Quality Management

VDA Volume 6 Part 5 Product Audit - Requirements of the Verband der Deutschen Automobilindustrie for product quality inside the automotive industry

Benefits of VDA 6.5:

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.

VDA Volume 6 Part 5 addresses product quality and the transfer of customer expectations into real product features. As customer wishes, safety demands and legal rules have been growing, and as electronics and software functions have been penetrating most products, the complexity has been increasing dramatically. By implementing preventive quality methods, the overall quality situation has been improving. Therefore, the product quality audit has become more for documenting the high-level of quality rather than a tool to generate this quality.

Our Range of Services:

Participants are introduced to the concepts and details of VDA 6.5 which requires automotive suppliers to continuously verify their quality system effectiveness through product audits. 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 assist you in integrating the requirements of VDA 6.5 into your quality management system as a consulting service. In this case our experts will explain all aspects and requirements to you and your staff in a step by step manner defining all necessary activities and parameters. Thus you and your staff will gain valuable experience in managing your quality system in conformance to VDA 6.5.

Content:

- Comparison of product audits with other audit types and verifications
- Product audit planning
- Document review, ensuring consistency and relevance
- Key indicators to quantify quality achievements and to identify critical characteristics
- Considering all aspects in the systematic assessment:
- - Measurable characteristics
- - Functions
- - Material characteristics
- - Lifetime
- - Qualitative characteristics
- Audit reporting
- Setting corrective action priorities: Distinguishing between major and minor nonconformities
- VDA 6.5 case studies