IATF 16949 A Complete Guide
You’re under pressure. Your company is preparing for audit season, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Non-conformities, failed assessments, or delayed certifications could mean lost contracts, reputational damage, and major operational setbacks. You need clarity, not confusion. Frameworks that work, not theoretical jargon. You need a proven path from compliance chaos to certified, competitive advantage - one that positions you as a strategic leader, not just a quality professional ticking boxes. The IATF 16949 A Complete Guide isn’t another generic overview. It’s the exact roadmap top automotive suppliers use to pass audits on the first attempt, streamline processes, and build a culture of quality that drives real business results. Take Sarah M., a Quality Systems Manager at a Tier 1 supplier in Detroit. After completing this course, she led her team to a zero-deficiency external audit within 90 days - the first in her company’s history. Her promotion followed just weeks later. This course takes you from uncertainty to mastery, equipping you to implement IATF 16949 with precision, confidence, and measurable ROI. You’ll go from unclear requirements to a fully documented, auditable system - complete with a globally recognised Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service. Here’s how this course is structured to help you get there.Course Format & Delivery Details Designed for Real-World Impact, Not Theory
The IATF 16949 A Complete Guide is a self-paced, on-demand learning experience with immediate online access. There are no fixed dates, no deadlines, and no pressure - just focused, high-impact material you can engage with whenever it suits your schedule. Most learners complete the full curriculum in 4 to 6 weeks, dedicating just 4 to 5 hours per week. You’ll start applying key concepts immediately - drafting process maps, risk assessments, and audit plans - so your organisation sees value from Day One. Lifetime Access, Zero Expiry
Once enrolled, you receive lifetime access to the entire course. This includes all future updates, ensuring you remain aligned with the latest interpretations and industry expectations - at no extra cost. Access is available 24/7 from any device, with full mobile compatibility. Review materials on your commute, during site walks, or while prepping for internal audits. This is learning that works around your life, not the other way around. Expert Guidance When You Need It
You’re not alone. All learners receive direct instructor support through a dedicated response channel. Whether you’re troubleshooting a process flowchart or clarifying a clause interpretation, expert guidance is built in. The course is designed for practitioners at every level, from engineers implementing APQP to managers preparing for surveillance audits. No prior IATF experience is required - just the drive to master one of the most respected standards in global manufacturing. Prove Your Expertise with a Globally Recognised Credential
Upon completion, you’ll earn a Certificate of Completion issued by The Art of Service - a name trusted by over 40,000 professionals worldwide. This credential is widely accepted as proof of competency in IATF 16949 and strengthens your professional profile across job boards, LinkedIn, and internal promotions. The certificate includes a unique verification ID, enabling employers to independently confirm your achievement. This isn’t a participation badge - it’s proof of mastery. No Risk, No Hidden Fees, No Guesswork
The pricing is straightforward with no hidden fees. What you see is what you pay. The course accepts Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal - all processed securely with bank-level encryption. If you complete the course and feel it didn’t deliver the value you expected, you’re covered by our 30-day “Satisfied or Refunded” guarantee. Zero risk. Maximum confidence. Real Results, Even If You’re Starting From Behind
You might be thinking: “This sounds great, but will it work for me?” Yes - even if: - You’ve never led a full IATF audit internally
- Your team resists change or doesn’t understand the standard
- You’re translating the requirements into another language or culture
- Your organisation has failed audits in the past
- You’re new to quality management but need to get up to speed fast
This course has helped supply chain specialists in Seoul, process engineers in Stuttgart, and quality leads in São Paulo implement the standard successfully - not through memorisation, but through a deep, practical understanding of how each clause applies on the shop floor. After enrollment, you’ll receive a confirmation email with full details. Your access credentials and course portal login will be sent separately once your registration is processed - ensuring a smooth, error-free start. This is your risk-reversed path to credibility, clarity, and career momentum.
Module 1: Foundations of IATF 16949 - Understanding the evolution from ISO 9001 to IATF 16949
- Core objectives and business benefits of IATF 16949 certification
- Scope and applicability across automotive supply chains
- Key differences between ISO 9001 and IATF 16949
- Structure of the IATF 16949 standard: High-Level Structure (HLS) breakdown
- Role of OEMs in driving IATF compliance downstream
- Understanding stakeholder expectations: Customers, auditors, regulators
- Introduction to IATF recognition and OEM-specific requirements
- Key definitions and terminology used throughout the standard
- Overview of mandatory documentation requirements
- Understanding the certification process from start to finish
- Preparing for the certification audit: Timeline and expectations
- Recognising the role of Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs)
- Integration with existing quality management systems
- Mapping IATF 16949 to corporate governance and strategy
Module 2: Leadership and Organisational Context - Establishing organisational context using Clause 4.1
- Identifying internal and external issues affecting quality
- Understanding interested parties and their requirements
- Defining quality policy aligned with business strategy
- Leadership commitment and top management accountability
- Roles, responsibilities, and authorities within the QMS
- Ensuring process owners are clearly assigned and trained
- Implementing escalation processes for quality issues
- Leadership involvement in management reviews
- Creating a culture of continuous improvement and accountability
- Linking quality performance to business KPIs
- Managing remote or multi-site operations under IATF
- Ensuring leadership visibility during audits
- Addressing corporate social responsibility in quality decisions
- Documenting leadership responsibilities in line with Clause 5
Module 3: Planning and Risk Management - Strategic planning for quality objectives and targets
- Establishing measurable quality objectives across departments
- Developing action plans to achieve quality goals
- Implementing risk-based thinking throughout the QMS
- Conducting Organizational Risk Assessments (ORA)
- Integrating risk into business continuity planning
- Using SWOT analysis to identify strategic risks and opportunities
- Developing mitigation plans for high-risk areas
- Linking risk planning to new product development
- Ensuring risk reviews occur during management meetings
- Documenting risk treatment plans and monitoring effectiveness
- Using risk data to inform supplier selection and monitoring
- Creating risk registers aligned with IATF expectations
- Applying risk thinking to change management processes
- Monitoring emerging risks in global supply chains
Module 4: Support Functions and Resource Management - Ensuring adequate resources for quality system implementation
- Developing a competency framework for quality roles
- Conducting training needs analysis across departments
- Creating and maintaining training records and matrices
- Ensuring awareness of quality policy and objectives
- Managing internal and external communication protocols
- Documentation control: Creating, approving, and revising documents
- Managing document version control and obsolescence
- Controlling external documents including OEM requirements
- Establishing a centralised document management system
- Preventing unauthorised access or changes to controlled documents
- Implementing secure storage and retrieval processes
- Managing multilingual documentation for global teams
- Specifying infrastructure requirements for production processes
- Ensuring workplace environment supports product quality
Module 5: Operational Planning and Control - Planning product realisation from RFQ to delivery
- Defining operational controls for each manufacturing stage
- Developing process flow charts and PFMEA linkages
- Mapping process sequences and inspection points
- Establishing control plans for production and assembly
- Updating control plans for engineering changes
- Implementing standard work instructions and visual aids
- Verifying work instructions are accessible at point of use
- Managing changeover procedures and SMED principles
- Applying error-proofing (Poka-Yoke) techniques
- Linking operational controls to customer specifications
- Ensuring special characteristics are clearly identified
- Controlling outsourced processes and supplier interfaces
- Managing calibration and maintenance schedules
- Implementing traceability systems across the value chain
Module 6: Product and Process Design (APQP) - Understanding the five phases of APQP
- Phase 1: Planning and defining program requirements
- Phase 2: Product design and development validation
- Conducting Design FMEAs and design reviews
- Creating DFMEA with cross-functional teams
- Developing design verification plans and reports (DVP&R)
- Phase 3: Process design and development
- Creating initial process flow diagrams
- Developing Process FMEAs (PFMEA)
- Linking PFMEA to control plans and work instructions
- Identifying special product and process characteristics
- Developing measurement systems analysis (MSA) plans
- Selecting appropriate gages and test equipment
- Creating prototype control plans
- Integrating lessons learned from previous designs
Module 7: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) - Understanding PPAP levels and submission requirements
- Preparing Level 3 submissions: Most common requirement
- Compiling the complete PPAP package
- Including design records and authorised engineering changes
- Submitting process flow diagrams and PFMEAs
- Preparing control plans and measurement system analyses
- Conducting dimensional results verification
- Compiling material and performance test data
- Obtaining initial process studies (Cp/Cpk)
- Preparing qualified laboratory documentation
- Including appearance approval reports (AAR)
- Creating samples for customer review
- Preparing master sample and sample records
- Completing checklist and Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
- Managing customer-specific PPAP requirements
Module 8: Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) - Understanding variation sources in measurement systems
- Conducting Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies
- Performing attribute agreement analysis (AAA)
- Selecting appraisers and test samples
- Analyzing results using AIAG methods
- Interpreting %GR&R and determining acceptability
- Documenting MSA study reports
- Repeating MSA on critical measurement points
- Managing calibration intervals based on risk
- Linking MSA to control plan requirements
- Ensuring gages are capable before production start
- Handling measurement uncertainty in test results
- Verifying software-based measurement systems
- Integrating MSA into supplier development programs
- Archiving MSA records for audit readiness
Module 9: Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Understanding variation: Common cause vs. special cause
- Selecting appropriate control charts (X-bar R, p, u, c charts)
- Establishing control limits and centre lines
- Collecting data for SPC implementation
- Plotting data and interpreting control chart signals
- Responding to out-of-control conditions
- Calculating process capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk)
- Establishing minimum capability requirements
- Linking SPC to process validation activities
- Using SPC data in management reviews
- Training operators on SPC basics
- Displaying control charts at point of operation
- Updating SPC plans after process changes
- Integrating SPC with real-time monitoring systems
- Documenting SPC procedures and reference records
Module 10: Internal Audits and Compliance Monitoring - Developing an internal audit program schedule
- Creating audit checklists aligned with IATF clauses
- Selecting and training competent internal auditors
- Conducting audits based on risk and process criticality
- Using process approach in audit planning
- Implementing layered process audits (LPA)
- Documenting audit findings and nonconformities
- Writing clear, objective, and evidence-based audit reports
- Assigning root cause analysis for findings
- Validating effectiveness of corrective actions
- Tracking audit issues to closure
- Reporting audit results to top management
- Linking audit data to management review inputs
- Preparing for external auditor sampling of internal audits
- Ensuring audit independence and objectivity
Module 11: Corrective Action and Problem Solving (8D & RCA) - Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Understanding the evolution from ISO 9001 to IATF 16949
- Core objectives and business benefits of IATF 16949 certification
- Scope and applicability across automotive supply chains
- Key differences between ISO 9001 and IATF 16949
- Structure of the IATF 16949 standard: High-Level Structure (HLS) breakdown
- Role of OEMs in driving IATF compliance downstream
- Understanding stakeholder expectations: Customers, auditors, regulators
- Introduction to IATF recognition and OEM-specific requirements
- Key definitions and terminology used throughout the standard
- Overview of mandatory documentation requirements
- Understanding the certification process from start to finish
- Preparing for the certification audit: Timeline and expectations
- Recognising the role of Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs)
- Integration with existing quality management systems
- Mapping IATF 16949 to corporate governance and strategy
Module 2: Leadership and Organisational Context - Establishing organisational context using Clause 4.1
- Identifying internal and external issues affecting quality
- Understanding interested parties and their requirements
- Defining quality policy aligned with business strategy
- Leadership commitment and top management accountability
- Roles, responsibilities, and authorities within the QMS
- Ensuring process owners are clearly assigned and trained
- Implementing escalation processes for quality issues
- Leadership involvement in management reviews
- Creating a culture of continuous improvement and accountability
- Linking quality performance to business KPIs
- Managing remote or multi-site operations under IATF
- Ensuring leadership visibility during audits
- Addressing corporate social responsibility in quality decisions
- Documenting leadership responsibilities in line with Clause 5
Module 3: Planning and Risk Management - Strategic planning for quality objectives and targets
- Establishing measurable quality objectives across departments
- Developing action plans to achieve quality goals
- Implementing risk-based thinking throughout the QMS
- Conducting Organizational Risk Assessments (ORA)
- Integrating risk into business continuity planning
- Using SWOT analysis to identify strategic risks and opportunities
- Developing mitigation plans for high-risk areas
- Linking risk planning to new product development
- Ensuring risk reviews occur during management meetings
- Documenting risk treatment plans and monitoring effectiveness
- Using risk data to inform supplier selection and monitoring
- Creating risk registers aligned with IATF expectations
- Applying risk thinking to change management processes
- Monitoring emerging risks in global supply chains
Module 4: Support Functions and Resource Management - Ensuring adequate resources for quality system implementation
- Developing a competency framework for quality roles
- Conducting training needs analysis across departments
- Creating and maintaining training records and matrices
- Ensuring awareness of quality policy and objectives
- Managing internal and external communication protocols
- Documentation control: Creating, approving, and revising documents
- Managing document version control and obsolescence
- Controlling external documents including OEM requirements
- Establishing a centralised document management system
- Preventing unauthorised access or changes to controlled documents
- Implementing secure storage and retrieval processes
- Managing multilingual documentation for global teams
- Specifying infrastructure requirements for production processes
- Ensuring workplace environment supports product quality
Module 5: Operational Planning and Control - Planning product realisation from RFQ to delivery
- Defining operational controls for each manufacturing stage
- Developing process flow charts and PFMEA linkages
- Mapping process sequences and inspection points
- Establishing control plans for production and assembly
- Updating control plans for engineering changes
- Implementing standard work instructions and visual aids
- Verifying work instructions are accessible at point of use
- Managing changeover procedures and SMED principles
- Applying error-proofing (Poka-Yoke) techniques
- Linking operational controls to customer specifications
- Ensuring special characteristics are clearly identified
- Controlling outsourced processes and supplier interfaces
- Managing calibration and maintenance schedules
- Implementing traceability systems across the value chain
Module 6: Product and Process Design (APQP) - Understanding the five phases of APQP
- Phase 1: Planning and defining program requirements
- Phase 2: Product design and development validation
- Conducting Design FMEAs and design reviews
- Creating DFMEA with cross-functional teams
- Developing design verification plans and reports (DVP&R)
- Phase 3: Process design and development
- Creating initial process flow diagrams
- Developing Process FMEAs (PFMEA)
- Linking PFMEA to control plans and work instructions
- Identifying special product and process characteristics
- Developing measurement systems analysis (MSA) plans
- Selecting appropriate gages and test equipment
- Creating prototype control plans
- Integrating lessons learned from previous designs
Module 7: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) - Understanding PPAP levels and submission requirements
- Preparing Level 3 submissions: Most common requirement
- Compiling the complete PPAP package
- Including design records and authorised engineering changes
- Submitting process flow diagrams and PFMEAs
- Preparing control plans and measurement system analyses
- Conducting dimensional results verification
- Compiling material and performance test data
- Obtaining initial process studies (Cp/Cpk)
- Preparing qualified laboratory documentation
- Including appearance approval reports (AAR)
- Creating samples for customer review
- Preparing master sample and sample records
- Completing checklist and Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
- Managing customer-specific PPAP requirements
Module 8: Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) - Understanding variation sources in measurement systems
- Conducting Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies
- Performing attribute agreement analysis (AAA)
- Selecting appraisers and test samples
- Analyzing results using AIAG methods
- Interpreting %GR&R and determining acceptability
- Documenting MSA study reports
- Repeating MSA on critical measurement points
- Managing calibration intervals based on risk
- Linking MSA to control plan requirements
- Ensuring gages are capable before production start
- Handling measurement uncertainty in test results
- Verifying software-based measurement systems
- Integrating MSA into supplier development programs
- Archiving MSA records for audit readiness
Module 9: Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Understanding variation: Common cause vs. special cause
- Selecting appropriate control charts (X-bar R, p, u, c charts)
- Establishing control limits and centre lines
- Collecting data for SPC implementation
- Plotting data and interpreting control chart signals
- Responding to out-of-control conditions
- Calculating process capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk)
- Establishing minimum capability requirements
- Linking SPC to process validation activities
- Using SPC data in management reviews
- Training operators on SPC basics
- Displaying control charts at point of operation
- Updating SPC plans after process changes
- Integrating SPC with real-time monitoring systems
- Documenting SPC procedures and reference records
Module 10: Internal Audits and Compliance Monitoring - Developing an internal audit program schedule
- Creating audit checklists aligned with IATF clauses
- Selecting and training competent internal auditors
- Conducting audits based on risk and process criticality
- Using process approach in audit planning
- Implementing layered process audits (LPA)
- Documenting audit findings and nonconformities
- Writing clear, objective, and evidence-based audit reports
- Assigning root cause analysis for findings
- Validating effectiveness of corrective actions
- Tracking audit issues to closure
- Reporting audit results to top management
- Linking audit data to management review inputs
- Preparing for external auditor sampling of internal audits
- Ensuring audit independence and objectivity
Module 11: Corrective Action and Problem Solving (8D & RCA) - Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Strategic planning for quality objectives and targets
- Establishing measurable quality objectives across departments
- Developing action plans to achieve quality goals
- Implementing risk-based thinking throughout the QMS
- Conducting Organizational Risk Assessments (ORA)
- Integrating risk into business continuity planning
- Using SWOT analysis to identify strategic risks and opportunities
- Developing mitigation plans for high-risk areas
- Linking risk planning to new product development
- Ensuring risk reviews occur during management meetings
- Documenting risk treatment plans and monitoring effectiveness
- Using risk data to inform supplier selection and monitoring
- Creating risk registers aligned with IATF expectations
- Applying risk thinking to change management processes
- Monitoring emerging risks in global supply chains
Module 4: Support Functions and Resource Management - Ensuring adequate resources for quality system implementation
- Developing a competency framework for quality roles
- Conducting training needs analysis across departments
- Creating and maintaining training records and matrices
- Ensuring awareness of quality policy and objectives
- Managing internal and external communication protocols
- Documentation control: Creating, approving, and revising documents
- Managing document version control and obsolescence
- Controlling external documents including OEM requirements
- Establishing a centralised document management system
- Preventing unauthorised access or changes to controlled documents
- Implementing secure storage and retrieval processes
- Managing multilingual documentation for global teams
- Specifying infrastructure requirements for production processes
- Ensuring workplace environment supports product quality
Module 5: Operational Planning and Control - Planning product realisation from RFQ to delivery
- Defining operational controls for each manufacturing stage
- Developing process flow charts and PFMEA linkages
- Mapping process sequences and inspection points
- Establishing control plans for production and assembly
- Updating control plans for engineering changes
- Implementing standard work instructions and visual aids
- Verifying work instructions are accessible at point of use
- Managing changeover procedures and SMED principles
- Applying error-proofing (Poka-Yoke) techniques
- Linking operational controls to customer specifications
- Ensuring special characteristics are clearly identified
- Controlling outsourced processes and supplier interfaces
- Managing calibration and maintenance schedules
- Implementing traceability systems across the value chain
Module 6: Product and Process Design (APQP) - Understanding the five phases of APQP
- Phase 1: Planning and defining program requirements
- Phase 2: Product design and development validation
- Conducting Design FMEAs and design reviews
- Creating DFMEA with cross-functional teams
- Developing design verification plans and reports (DVP&R)
- Phase 3: Process design and development
- Creating initial process flow diagrams
- Developing Process FMEAs (PFMEA)
- Linking PFMEA to control plans and work instructions
- Identifying special product and process characteristics
- Developing measurement systems analysis (MSA) plans
- Selecting appropriate gages and test equipment
- Creating prototype control plans
- Integrating lessons learned from previous designs
Module 7: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) - Understanding PPAP levels and submission requirements
- Preparing Level 3 submissions: Most common requirement
- Compiling the complete PPAP package
- Including design records and authorised engineering changes
- Submitting process flow diagrams and PFMEAs
- Preparing control plans and measurement system analyses
- Conducting dimensional results verification
- Compiling material and performance test data
- Obtaining initial process studies (Cp/Cpk)
- Preparing qualified laboratory documentation
- Including appearance approval reports (AAR)
- Creating samples for customer review
- Preparing master sample and sample records
- Completing checklist and Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
- Managing customer-specific PPAP requirements
Module 8: Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) - Understanding variation sources in measurement systems
- Conducting Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies
- Performing attribute agreement analysis (AAA)
- Selecting appraisers and test samples
- Analyzing results using AIAG methods
- Interpreting %GR&R and determining acceptability
- Documenting MSA study reports
- Repeating MSA on critical measurement points
- Managing calibration intervals based on risk
- Linking MSA to control plan requirements
- Ensuring gages are capable before production start
- Handling measurement uncertainty in test results
- Verifying software-based measurement systems
- Integrating MSA into supplier development programs
- Archiving MSA records for audit readiness
Module 9: Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Understanding variation: Common cause vs. special cause
- Selecting appropriate control charts (X-bar R, p, u, c charts)
- Establishing control limits and centre lines
- Collecting data for SPC implementation
- Plotting data and interpreting control chart signals
- Responding to out-of-control conditions
- Calculating process capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk)
- Establishing minimum capability requirements
- Linking SPC to process validation activities
- Using SPC data in management reviews
- Training operators on SPC basics
- Displaying control charts at point of operation
- Updating SPC plans after process changes
- Integrating SPC with real-time monitoring systems
- Documenting SPC procedures and reference records
Module 10: Internal Audits and Compliance Monitoring - Developing an internal audit program schedule
- Creating audit checklists aligned with IATF clauses
- Selecting and training competent internal auditors
- Conducting audits based on risk and process criticality
- Using process approach in audit planning
- Implementing layered process audits (LPA)
- Documenting audit findings and nonconformities
- Writing clear, objective, and evidence-based audit reports
- Assigning root cause analysis for findings
- Validating effectiveness of corrective actions
- Tracking audit issues to closure
- Reporting audit results to top management
- Linking audit data to management review inputs
- Preparing for external auditor sampling of internal audits
- Ensuring audit independence and objectivity
Module 11: Corrective Action and Problem Solving (8D & RCA) - Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Planning product realisation from RFQ to delivery
- Defining operational controls for each manufacturing stage
- Developing process flow charts and PFMEA linkages
- Mapping process sequences and inspection points
- Establishing control plans for production and assembly
- Updating control plans for engineering changes
- Implementing standard work instructions and visual aids
- Verifying work instructions are accessible at point of use
- Managing changeover procedures and SMED principles
- Applying error-proofing (Poka-Yoke) techniques
- Linking operational controls to customer specifications
- Ensuring special characteristics are clearly identified
- Controlling outsourced processes and supplier interfaces
- Managing calibration and maintenance schedules
- Implementing traceability systems across the value chain
Module 6: Product and Process Design (APQP) - Understanding the five phases of APQP
- Phase 1: Planning and defining program requirements
- Phase 2: Product design and development validation
- Conducting Design FMEAs and design reviews
- Creating DFMEA with cross-functional teams
- Developing design verification plans and reports (DVP&R)
- Phase 3: Process design and development
- Creating initial process flow diagrams
- Developing Process FMEAs (PFMEA)
- Linking PFMEA to control plans and work instructions
- Identifying special product and process characteristics
- Developing measurement systems analysis (MSA) plans
- Selecting appropriate gages and test equipment
- Creating prototype control plans
- Integrating lessons learned from previous designs
Module 7: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) - Understanding PPAP levels and submission requirements
- Preparing Level 3 submissions: Most common requirement
- Compiling the complete PPAP package
- Including design records and authorised engineering changes
- Submitting process flow diagrams and PFMEAs
- Preparing control plans and measurement system analyses
- Conducting dimensional results verification
- Compiling material and performance test data
- Obtaining initial process studies (Cp/Cpk)
- Preparing qualified laboratory documentation
- Including appearance approval reports (AAR)
- Creating samples for customer review
- Preparing master sample and sample records
- Completing checklist and Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
- Managing customer-specific PPAP requirements
Module 8: Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) - Understanding variation sources in measurement systems
- Conducting Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies
- Performing attribute agreement analysis (AAA)
- Selecting appraisers and test samples
- Analyzing results using AIAG methods
- Interpreting %GR&R and determining acceptability
- Documenting MSA study reports
- Repeating MSA on critical measurement points
- Managing calibration intervals based on risk
- Linking MSA to control plan requirements
- Ensuring gages are capable before production start
- Handling measurement uncertainty in test results
- Verifying software-based measurement systems
- Integrating MSA into supplier development programs
- Archiving MSA records for audit readiness
Module 9: Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Understanding variation: Common cause vs. special cause
- Selecting appropriate control charts (X-bar R, p, u, c charts)
- Establishing control limits and centre lines
- Collecting data for SPC implementation
- Plotting data and interpreting control chart signals
- Responding to out-of-control conditions
- Calculating process capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk)
- Establishing minimum capability requirements
- Linking SPC to process validation activities
- Using SPC data in management reviews
- Training operators on SPC basics
- Displaying control charts at point of operation
- Updating SPC plans after process changes
- Integrating SPC with real-time monitoring systems
- Documenting SPC procedures and reference records
Module 10: Internal Audits and Compliance Monitoring - Developing an internal audit program schedule
- Creating audit checklists aligned with IATF clauses
- Selecting and training competent internal auditors
- Conducting audits based on risk and process criticality
- Using process approach in audit planning
- Implementing layered process audits (LPA)
- Documenting audit findings and nonconformities
- Writing clear, objective, and evidence-based audit reports
- Assigning root cause analysis for findings
- Validating effectiveness of corrective actions
- Tracking audit issues to closure
- Reporting audit results to top management
- Linking audit data to management review inputs
- Preparing for external auditor sampling of internal audits
- Ensuring audit independence and objectivity
Module 11: Corrective Action and Problem Solving (8D & RCA) - Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Understanding PPAP levels and submission requirements
- Preparing Level 3 submissions: Most common requirement
- Compiling the complete PPAP package
- Including design records and authorised engineering changes
- Submitting process flow diagrams and PFMEAs
- Preparing control plans and measurement system analyses
- Conducting dimensional results verification
- Compiling material and performance test data
- Obtaining initial process studies (Cp/Cpk)
- Preparing qualified laboratory documentation
- Including appearance approval reports (AAR)
- Creating samples for customer review
- Preparing master sample and sample records
- Completing checklist and Part Submission Warrant (PSW)
- Managing customer-specific PPAP requirements
Module 8: Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) - Understanding variation sources in measurement systems
- Conducting Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility (GR&R) studies
- Performing attribute agreement analysis (AAA)
- Selecting appraisers and test samples
- Analyzing results using AIAG methods
- Interpreting %GR&R and determining acceptability
- Documenting MSA study reports
- Repeating MSA on critical measurement points
- Managing calibration intervals based on risk
- Linking MSA to control plan requirements
- Ensuring gages are capable before production start
- Handling measurement uncertainty in test results
- Verifying software-based measurement systems
- Integrating MSA into supplier development programs
- Archiving MSA records for audit readiness
Module 9: Statistical Process Control (SPC) - Understanding variation: Common cause vs. special cause
- Selecting appropriate control charts (X-bar R, p, u, c charts)
- Establishing control limits and centre lines
- Collecting data for SPC implementation
- Plotting data and interpreting control chart signals
- Responding to out-of-control conditions
- Calculating process capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk)
- Establishing minimum capability requirements
- Linking SPC to process validation activities
- Using SPC data in management reviews
- Training operators on SPC basics
- Displaying control charts at point of operation
- Updating SPC plans after process changes
- Integrating SPC with real-time monitoring systems
- Documenting SPC procedures and reference records
Module 10: Internal Audits and Compliance Monitoring - Developing an internal audit program schedule
- Creating audit checklists aligned with IATF clauses
- Selecting and training competent internal auditors
- Conducting audits based on risk and process criticality
- Using process approach in audit planning
- Implementing layered process audits (LPA)
- Documenting audit findings and nonconformities
- Writing clear, objective, and evidence-based audit reports
- Assigning root cause analysis for findings
- Validating effectiveness of corrective actions
- Tracking audit issues to closure
- Reporting audit results to top management
- Linking audit data to management review inputs
- Preparing for external auditor sampling of internal audits
- Ensuring audit independence and objectivity
Module 11: Corrective Action and Problem Solving (8D & RCA) - Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Understanding variation: Common cause vs. special cause
- Selecting appropriate control charts (X-bar R, p, u, c charts)
- Establishing control limits and centre lines
- Collecting data for SPC implementation
- Plotting data and interpreting control chart signals
- Responding to out-of-control conditions
- Calculating process capability indices (Cp, Cpk, Pp, Ppk)
- Establishing minimum capability requirements
- Linking SPC to process validation activities
- Using SPC data in management reviews
- Training operators on SPC basics
- Displaying control charts at point of operation
- Updating SPC plans after process changes
- Integrating SPC with real-time monitoring systems
- Documenting SPC procedures and reference records
Module 10: Internal Audits and Compliance Monitoring - Developing an internal audit program schedule
- Creating audit checklists aligned with IATF clauses
- Selecting and training competent internal auditors
- Conducting audits based on risk and process criticality
- Using process approach in audit planning
- Implementing layered process audits (LPA)
- Documenting audit findings and nonconformities
- Writing clear, objective, and evidence-based audit reports
- Assigning root cause analysis for findings
- Validating effectiveness of corrective actions
- Tracking audit issues to closure
- Reporting audit results to top management
- Linking audit data to management review inputs
- Preparing for external auditor sampling of internal audits
- Ensuring audit independence and objectivity
Module 11: Corrective Action and Problem Solving (8D & RCA) - Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Applying the 8D problem-solving methodology
- D1: Establishing the team
- D2: Defining the problem using 5W2H
- D3: Implementing interim containment actions
- D4: Identifying root cause using 5 Whys, fishbone diagrams
- Using Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) for complex issues
- D5: Developing permanent corrective actions
- D6: Implementing and validating corrective actions
- D7: Preventing recurrence through system updates
- D8: Recognising team contributions and closing the loop
- Linking corrective actions to process improvements
- Ensuring customer approval for major corrections
- Documenting and archiving 8D reports
- Training teams on structured problem-solving tools
- Integrating customer feedback into corrective action
Module 12: Management Review and Continuous Improvement - Scheduling and preparing for management reviews
- Defining inputs required by Clause 9.3
- Aligning review outputs with strategic objectives
- Presenting quality performance metrics to leadership
- Reporting on customer satisfaction and feedback
- Reviewing process performance and conformance trends
- Analysing supplier performance data
- Presenting internal audit results and follow-up status
- Discussing corrective action effectiveness
- Reviewing changes affecting the QMS
- Ensuring resource availability for improvements
- Capturing management review minutes and action items
- Tracking resolution of review-driven actions
- Linking reviews to business planning cycles
- Using balanced scorecard in management reporting
Module 13: Customer-Specific Requirements (CSRs) - Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Understanding the impact of OEM-specific requirements
- Reviewing common CSRs from Ford, GM, Stellantis, BMW, VW
- Analysing Toyota’s GTS and Nissan’s QPN requirements
- Integrating VDA 6.3 process audits into supplier evaluation
- Mapping CSRs to IATF 16949 clauses
- Creating a CSR compliance checklist
- Managing differences between OEM expectations
- Updating documentation to reflect CSR changes
- Training teams on CSR-specific tools and templates
- Preparing for OEM-specific process audits
- Handling customer scorecards and performance reviews
- Responding to OEM nonconformities and deviations
- Using customer portals for submission tracking
- Obtaining customer approval for Waiver Requests (EWO)
- Managing customer engineering change processes
Module 14: Supply Chain and Supplier Management - Developing a supplier risk classification model
- Conducting supplier assessments using process audits
- Implementing supplier development programs
- Managing second- and third-tier supplier oversight
- Requiring IATF 16949 certification from key suppliers
- Monitoring supplier performance using PPM and OTD
- Implementing supplier scorecards and dashboards
- Conducting joint problem-solving with supplier teams
- Managing supplier change notifications (SCAR)
- Ensuring supplier quality agreements are in place
- Verifying supplier capability before launch
- Requiring PPAP submission from suppliers
- Conducting supplier FMEA reviews
- Managing sole-source and single-source risks
- Integrating supplier data into internal reporting
Module 15: Advanced Product Quality Planning Integration - Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Aligning APQP with project management methodologies
- Creating cross-functional team (CFT) charters
- Establishing milestone gates and stage reviews
- Integrating Design for Manufacturing (DFM) principles
- Using concurrent engineering to accelerate timelines
- Linking lessons learned to future APQP cycles
- Managing engineering change orders (ECO) within APQP
- Conducting readiness assessments before launch
- Developing launch readiness checklists
- Managing prototype builds and pilot runs
- Collecting feedback during early production
- Transitioning from development to routine production
- Handing off responsibility to production teams
- Conducting post-launch reviews
- Documenting APQP closure and archiving records
Module 16: Audit Preparation and Certification Success - Developing a pre-certification gap analysis
- Conducting a full system audit before external assessment
- Simulating the certification audit environment
- Preparing evidence for each IATF clause
- Organising documentation for auditor access
- Training staff on responding to auditor questions
- Conducting mock audits with external facilitators
- Addressing findings before the actual audit
- Creating a corrective action plan for known gaps
- Ensuring availability of records for prior 12 months
- Preparing management review records
- Rehearsing the opening and closing meetings
- Assigning audit guides and subject matter experts
- Managing auditor site tours and interviews
- Finalising readiness checklist 30 days before audit
Module 17: Post-Certification and Ongoing Compliance - Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Maintaining certification after successful audit
- Scheduling surveillance and recertification audits
- Managing documentation updates without gaps
- Handling organisational changes affecting certification
- Updating scope of certification when required
- Reporting changes to the certification body
- Managing subcontracting and outsourcing changes
- Ensuring ongoing compliance during business transitions
- Preparing for announced and unannounced audits
- Conducting internal readiness reviews quarterly
- Updating internal audit plans based on risk
- Revising process controls for new products
- Tracking certification expiration and renewal dates
- Verifying compliance of temporary workforce and contractors
- Integrating audit findings into improvement plans
Module 18: Real-World Projects and Implementation - Project 1: Conduct a full IATF gap analysis for a sample company
- Project 2: Develop a complete APQP package for a new product
- Project 3: Create a PPAP submission package for customer approval
- Project 4: Conduct a simulated internal audit and write findings
- Project 5: Perform a GR&R study and analyse the results
- Project 6: Build a control plan for a machining process
- Project 7: Develop a PFMEA for an assembly operation
- Project 8: Write an 8D report based on a real-world scenario
- Project 9: Prepare a management review presentation
- Project 10: Map CSR requirements from a major OEM
- Developing a supplier assessment checklist
- Creating a process flow diagram from raw material to shipping
- Designing a layered process audit (LPA) program
- Implementing a document control system in a simulated environment
- Building a risk register aligned with business impact
Module 19: Certification and Career Advancement - Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups
- Completing the final assessment: Comprehensive knowledge check
- Submitting all required project work for evaluation
- Receiving feedback and improvement recommendations
- Understanding the Certificate of Completion issuance process
- Verifying your credential with a unique ID
- Adding your certification to LinkedIn and CV
- Using the credential in job applications and promotions
- Networking with other certified professionals
- Accessing alumni resources and updates
- Exploring next-step certifications in quality and auditing
- Preparing for career growth: Quality Engineer to Manager
- Transitioning into auditing roles: Internal, second-party, third-party
- Building a personal brand as a quality leader
- Using the certificate to justify salary increases or promotions
- Joining professional associations and industry groups