Software vendor IQS is marketing its QMS packages to the automotive industry by falsely claiming the VW emissions scandal was due to a “software glitch” and “poor software quality,” which they imply their software could have prevented.
The decoupling of IATF 16949 from ISO will inevitably lead to the IAQG doing the same for AS9100, all to the detriment of standards users.
Another ISO certified airbag producer faces scandal, and registrar records are once again impossible to recover.
The IATF has announced its next edition of ISO/TS 16949 will not be published by ISO at all, beginning the inevitable “decoupling” from ISO standards.
The International Automotive Task Force (IATF) has confirmed to Oxebridge that former GM executive Joe Bransky is no longer with the group. Bransky had represented the IATF in various capacities since since 1999.
The three plants were operated by Takata subsidiary Inflation Systems Inc. (ISI), found to have been manufacturing the defective airbag systems that killed five people to date, were ISO/TS 16949 certified. So far, the registrar hasn’t come forward, and finding records of the certifications is proving difficult.
(Updated) Contacts within ISO Technical Committee 176 have notified Oxebridge that the automotive and aerospace industries are considering dropping all connection with ISO 9001, citing frustration over a “lack of...
