Sector · automotive and components
APQP with its milestones, FMEA linked to the control plan, PPAP submitted on time and SPC on real machine data. The sector core tools stop living in files only the person who built them understands.
In automotive, certification is not a decision: it is the condition for being on the supplier list. IATF 16949 applies on top of ISO 9001 and requires the sector core tools — APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plan and SPC — each with its evidence. The usual problem is not lacking them but keeping them in separate files that do not talk: an FMEA that is not updated when the control plan changes is a nonconformity waiting for the auditor.
Milestones, deliverables and customer submission with their status, without chasing anyone by email.
+ infoFailure modes linked to the control plan and the preventive actions, not in a separate spreadsheet.
+ infoStatistical control on data coming off the floor, so capability is a measurement and not an estimate.
+ info8D methodology with root cause and effectiveness verification for every customer complaint.
+ infoPreventive by machine hours and gauges with their interval watched, which is where most nonconformities appear.
+ infoApproval and re-evaluation of critical suppliers according to the risk of the component.
+ infoWhat it solves
Sector standards
Real examples
Stamping · Tier 2
Before The FMEA is three years old and the control plan has been modified twice since. Nobody synchronised the two documents.
After The failure mode links to its control. Changing the plan forces a review of the FMEA, with a record of who did it and when.
Plastic injection
Before The operator writes five measurements per shift on paper and somebody transfers them to a spreadsheet on Friday.
After The data arrives from the machine and capability is calculated over the full series. The figure starts to mean something.
Electrical components
Before The 8D is sent to the customer with the proposed action and that is that. Six months later the same complaint returns.
After Effectiveness verification is a step with a deadline and an owner. Without it, the 8D does not close.
Frequently asked questions
No, it rests on it. IATF 16949 cannot be certified without meeting ISO 9001:2015: it adds sector-specific requirements on top. In practice you run one system covering both.
The IATF itself, through Sanctioned Interpretations and FAQs that are mandatory in application. They are worth reviewing periodically because they change how requirements are interpreted without the edition changing.
Yes, and it is essential: each manufacturer adds their own. They are handled as requirements with their source, owner and evidence, just like those of the standard.
From the line itself, by whatever route the machine allows: API, intermediate database or file exchange. If somebody keys the data in at the end of the shift, process capability is measuring something else.
Yes, with the interval watched. A gauge past its date in use is a certain nonconformity, and the alerting mechanism is the same as for preventive maintenance.
Yes. The requirement flows down the chain: whoever supplies the Tier 1 ends up having to evidence the same, often without the Tier 1 structure.
As a flow with its eight disciplines, a deadline per stage and effectiveness verification at the end. What usually fails is not opening the 8D but closing it having checked the action worked.
Yes. Typically the ERP owns the production order and Kimobox hangs the quality records, nonconformities and allocated hours off it.
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Sources
References to the official text in force. If a standard is revised, this page is updated and the review date says so.
Kimobox is quality software for automotive that digitises the sector core tools: APQP with milestones and deliverables, process FMEA linked to the control plan, the PPAP file, statistical process control and customer complaints under 8D methodology.
IATF 16949 applies together with ISO 9001:2015 and is updated through the Sanctioned Interpretations the IATF itself publishes, so the system has to absorb changes in interpretation without being rebuilt.
