Historical Background
Many suppliers were asked by the car manufacturers (OEMs) to build and certify their quality management system according to the rules and regulations of their own country organizations, such as:
- VDA (Germany)
- AIAG (North America)
- AVSQ (Italy)
- FIEV (France)
- SMMT (UK)
But due to this regulation a supplier needed to provide two different certificates for Daimler and Chrysler (VDA 6.1 for Germany and QS 9000 America), even though the supplier delivered only to a single company. These complexities accelerated the need for harmonization.
Read more about this topic: ISO/TS 16949
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