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SEMINAR ON ISO/TS 16949: 22ND
JANUARY 2001, CHENNAI
A Seminar on ISO/TS 16949 to create awareness on the
subject amongst Members in the Region, was one of the
more important activities of the Chennai Office. The
programme was conducted by Mr. J Chandrasekhar, Country
Manager, UL India Pvt Ltd.
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The ISO/TS 16949 standard, written
by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF),
is an international group of automotive trade
associations and vehicle manufacturers including
BMW, Daimler Chrysler, Fiat, Ford, GM (including
Opel, Vauxhall), PSA-Peugeot-Citreon, Renault
SA, Volkswagen and the Automotive Trade Associations
AIAG (America), VDA/QMC (Germany), SMMT (UK).
ANFIA (Italy), CCFA and FIEV (France).
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In
conjunction with the ISO 9000 standard, ISO/TS
16949 specifies the quality system requirements
for the design/development, production and where
relevant, installation and servicing of automotive-related
products. In effect, the ISO/TS 16949 standard
is a result of harmonisation of efforts of the
supplier and quality system requirements, of car
manufacturers worldwide. The Standard has received
very positive response from almost all the major
International manufacturers. |
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It is anticipated that the Standard will give suppliers of
automotive products to international markets, the option
of maintaining one single quality -system registration
to meet multiple customer quality requirements at the
same time eliminating multiple certification audits. Soon,
this Standard may replace the QS 9000.
WORKSHOP ON POKA-YOKE:
24TH JANUARY 2001, NTTF TRAINING CENTRE BANGALORE
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As
mentioned above, the second Workshop on Poka-Yoke
was held in Bangalore and once again received
overwhelming response with about 50 participants
attending the programme, conducted by Mr. D Manivannan,
Sr. Manager-TPM, Sundaram Clayton Ltd.
Mr. N Reguraj, Member of the
ACMA Executive Committee and MD, NTTF Industries
Ltd, in his welcome address thanked Mr. Manivannan
and Sundaram Clayton for all their support.Quoting
a news items on road accidents, he likened the
one mistake which snuffed out the life of an entire
family in a matter of moments to mistakes in operation
(earlier passed as the norm) that could cause
loss of business as easily, in the present automotive
scenario. Poke Yoke, he stressed, was one of the
most important answers to avoiding such disasters. |
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