ISO 9001 (Quality)
IATF 16949 (Automotive Quality)
The Value of Automotive Quality Systems Consulting:
There are numerous reasons why it’s important to have quality management systems (QMS) in any organization, and these systems are found across a diversity of industries.
In the automotive industry, having a methodology in place for ensuring the quality of both the products or services produced as well as the processes that are used to create those products or services is arguably more important than in any other industry.
An automotive quality system fulfills two basic requirements. The first is meeting the needs of the customers the organization serves; the second is creating a standard framework of process management, to streamline production processes and services offered.
How Automotive Quality Systems Consulting Works in Canada
A Visionary consultant is an individual or group that can equip any organization with the tools needed to create their automotive quality systems by the IATF 16949 standard. However, automotive ISO/IATF consultants at The Visionary Consultation can go even further.
We achieve this by emphasizing process management rather than the quality of the products themselves. Our rationale is that by ensuring your manufacturing processes are as streamlined, efficient, and error-free as possible, any resultant issues with the products can be significantly reduced –whether those issues occur mid-manufacture or whether they take the form of post-release changes and improvements that need to be made.
Here are the three ways a total quality management system will be put into place by The Visionary Consultation, one of Canada’s leading automotive QMS consultancy firms:
- Reduction And Eventual Prevention of Errors
By keeping errors that occur at the process level to a minimum, the workflow can be effectively streamlined so that it’s much easier for your organization to focus attention on other aspects of the manufacturing process.
Visionary consultants will work closely with your organization’s leadership and influential employees to design a customized plan to reduce errors and eventually prevent them completely. This is done by carefully analyzing the way your organization runs and identifying potential problem areas before they arise, which saves everybody, energy, and capital.
- Maintaining Consistency in The Supply Chain
Any supply chain that consistently generates variances and deviations is going to be difficult for your organization to manage. With that in mind, Visionary consultants have extensive experience across a whole range of different supply chains, so they know what’s likely to cause potential deviations down the line and can help advise your organization on industry best practices for reducing these as much as possible.
Like the prevention of errors, Visionary consultants aim to streamline your procedures at a practical level. The Visionary Consultation works with organizations that have several different tiers in their supply chain. We can offer this service because we adapt the way we work to each group, meaning every client gets the services they need for their specific purposes.
3. Process Improvement
Compared to the other two areas, which focus on the more practical, nitty-gritty aspects of quality management systems, this part of our service focuses on improving processes and procedures at the conceptual level. By applying cutting-edge system designs and process management methods to your group’s workflow, Visionary consultants help refine any procedures that may be in place in your organization before those same procedures even start working.
This is the principal benefit to your business in terms of time and money saved because it prevents you from going into operation with a sub-par process that will require fixing and improving later, meaning that you won’t need to waste any resources by potentially working with an unoptimized process.
Choose The Visionary Consultation for Automotive Quality Systems Consulting
As experienced automotive ISO consultants, our goal is to help your organization implement best-practice QMS measures in ways that are most beneficial to you. The Visionary Consultation will guide your organization through the process of implementing all the automotive industry and IATF 16949 requirements.
The idea is to help integrate these industry-standard protocols into your existing QMS since that’s what you’re familiar with and that’s where you’re most likely to see measurable, continual benefits—because you already know what the baseline is, and you’ll be able to notice positive changes much more easily.
This is also key to reducing the learning curve experienced by your organization because the integration of new protocols and learning curves that go on too long will lead to downtime and a loss of valuable time and capital resources.
Adapting your current QMS to conform with IATF 16949 requirements shouldn’t mean that you need to take time away from the day-to-day operation of your business. By working in close collaboration with your organization’s key members, The Visionary Consultation can ensure that the transition is as painless as possible.