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ISO/TS 16949 : 2002 Quality management systems -- Particular requirements for the application of ISO 9001:2000 for automotive production and relevant service part organizations

ISO/TS (Technical Specification) 16949 is a quality management system standard specific to the Automotive industry, which includes all the requirements of the ISO 9000 quality management system standard verbatim.

In addition, the standard combines the AVSQ (Italian), EAQF (French) and VDA 6.1 (German) automotive requirements.

ISO/TS 16949, coupled with customer-specific requirements, defines the quality system requirements for use in the automotive supply chain.

In April 2002, a new revised standard ISO/TS 16949:2002 was introduced. The new ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard replaces ISO/TS 16949:1999, VDA 6.1, AVSQ & EAQF certification. QS-9000:1998 was officially phased out as of December 15, 2006, and has been replaced by the ISO/TS 16949:2002 standard.

Benefits of ISO/TS 16949

Benefits of becoming ISO/TS 16949 certified include:

Improved process quality
Reassignment of supplier resources to quality improvement
Common quality system approach in the supplier development for consistency
Additional confidence in global sourcing
Reduction in second-party audits
Common language to improve understanding of quality requirements
Reduction of variation and increased efficiency
Reduction in multiple third-party registrations