Automotive

Two very different environments

Traditional automotive suppliers work to IATF 16949, customer-specific requirements and the core tools, with little tolerance for launch problems or field escapes. Automotive technology businesses face a different challenge: software-led engineering cultures moving at startup pace, where heavyweight process can stall development, yet customers, partners and regulators still expect evidence of control. Both need quality management that fits the way they work.

How Hillscom helps

• Quality management that meets OEM and Tier 1 expectations without slowing delivery
• Core tools capability: APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans and measurement system analysis
• ISO 9001 foundations for organisations working towards IATF 16949
• TQM, Kaizen and SMED grounded in real production experience
• Proportionate quality approaches for AI-driven and autonomous vehicle development, bridging engineering pace and assurance
• Information security through ISO 27001 where vehicle, customer or development data needs protecting

Bridging disciplines

Automotive methods travel well. The same APQP thinking that underpins automotive product launches now appears in aerospace through AS9145, and the same risk-based approach to FMEA applies whether the product is a precision machined component or a system with a large software element. Hillscom helps organisations apply these methods proportionately, so the effort matches the risk and quality keeps pace with engineering rather than trailing behind it.

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