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Stakeholders may raise concerns regarding perceived violations of the Rules for Achieving and Maintaining IATF Recognition (5th Edition) or the IATF’s Automotive Quality Management Systems standard (IATF 16949).

These potential concerns could be about IATF approved Certification Bodies, IATF 3rd party auditors, IATF 16949 certified organizations, or IATF Global Oversight Offices.

Dear partners!

We decided to move to the maximum possible use of distance learning technologies taking into account the situation with the spread of COVID-19 and quarantine measures that are being introduced all over the world.

Our specialists have prepared training materials for all training activities planned for the near future.

VDA received several questions about the possibility of online VDA trainings instead of face-to-face trainings regarding the current situation with the Corona Virus (COVID-19).

At the moment, VDA see no option of this, because the VDA trainings are not designed for an online performance.

Updated version of the VDA 6.3 (2016) FAQs for the new regulations from 2020 was published by VDA QMC in the beginning of the March.

The training and professional development of the VDA QMC has carried out a worldwide market study of the automotive industry within the framework of these considerations in order to receive direct feedback from the industry about the competence of the process auditors VDA 6.3 in the field. One conclusion of this study is that the automotive core tools, that means the automotive quality methods and tools are used inadequately. For this reason and parallel to the expiry of the first certificates VDA 6.3 (2016), the requirements for both maintenance and initial qualification (examination) of process auditors VDA 6.3 (2016) were adjusted and the subject of automotive core tools was included.

You can find the document via the link.

We would like to inform you that we start to accept of applications for new training course ID 417 “Automotive Core Tools for Process and System Auditors” since on the 1st of March, 2020.

In order to ensure a high quality of the audit activities in the companies and the entire supply chain, auditors need to have the appropriate competence in relation to the respective methods.

We would like to inform you that the nearest VDA QMC licensed course for auditors of the process in the Ukrainian language, is to be held from March 23 to March 27, 2020 in the hospitable Lviv, at the Ramada Lviv Hotel.

We invite managers, quality specialists, managers of the process of enterprises who produce and deliver automotive components to training.

A worldwide market study of the automotive industry by the VDA QMC has shown that the automotive core tools (automotive quality methods and tools) are not always adequately used.

For this reason, the requirements of the VDA qualifications for system and process auditors have been changed accordingly and the topic of automotive core tools has been included.

The IATF OEMs have started to develop reference tools to explain key functionality and metrics within the IATF OEM supplier performance scorecards.

These reference tools are called Scorecard Pocket Guides.  The Pocket Guides are useful to both certified organizations and to Certification Bodies for audit planning, review of customer performance data and on-site review of customer scorecards.

IATF has approved additional Sanctioned Interpretations (SI 1 revised and SI 8) related to Rules 5th Edition and approved Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ 5-6).

Sanctioned Interpretations alter the existing published requirements of the IATF Rules for achieving and maintaining IATF recognition 5th edition. Frequently Asked Questions clarify an existing requirement.