It is a strategic decision of the company to adopt and seek to implement any of the management systems. The establishment and management of these management systems in the enterprise is strongly influenced by the various needs of the company, the products they offer to its customers, the company's specific goals for the future, the current business processes and the structure and size of the company.

ISO 9001 Quality Management System is applicable for companies producing goods and services in every sector. However, these companies have different special conditions and criteria for automotive sub-industry companies or suppliers. Therefore ISO TS 16949 standardIs a standard that shows how to apply ISO 9001 standard to automotive industry sector.

The main purpose of the ISO TS 16949 standard is to create the opportunity to continuously improve the performance of suppliers and to provide added value to their activities. ISO TS 16949 Automotive Quality Management System standard defines the conditions that will create customer satisfaction, based on customer expectations and without departing from existing legal regulations. In order to achieve this result, the principles which are based on ISO TS 16949 standard are as follows: to be customer-oriented, to ensure the participation of employees, to lead, to adopt process approach, to adopt system approach, to make decisions based on facts, to make continuous improvement, to mutual benefit partnership with automotive companies. to establish relations based on the environment, to carry out continuous improvement works and to observe the environmental conditions and recovery conditions of the products.

Acting in accordance with these principles for the supplier companies is the biggest gain obtained by applying ISO TS 16949 Automotive Quality Management System standard.

Suppliers also add the following values ​​to their businesses thanks to the ISO TS 16949 standard:

·         Monitor customer satisfaction and measure customer satisfaction

·         Building a structure that focuses on performance and application rather than documentation

·         Supporting management system principles in general and facilitating the integration of management systems

·         Based on the process approach for activities

·         Setting measurable quality goals at all levels

·         To make quality planning that will provide continuous improvement in order to reach quality targets

ISO TS 16949 Automotive Quality Management System can be applied to suppliers of all sizes in automotive supplier industry regardless of production issues. Thanks to this feature, companies producing services in the automotive supplier industry can establish ISO TS 16949 Automotive Quality Management System in their enterprises.

In summary, the ISO TS 16949 standard is a standard designed for the automotive supplier industry, established on the basis of the Quality Management System, established with the compliance of technical standards for automotive industry suppliers. While designing this standard, it is based on the notion of not making mistakes instead of correcting the errors which is the basic understanding of total quality management. The aim is to investigate the causes of the errors in advance, to find them and to take precautions to prevent them from recurring again.

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