Product category: Power Supply ICs and Controllers
News Release from: Fairchild Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 15 June 2004
Plants meet automotive quality standards
All Fairchild Semiconductor manufacturing facilities worldwide producing automotive products have achieved the challenging ISO/TS16949 automotive certification
TS16949:2002 is a comprehensive quality management standard developed by the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) and Japan Automobile Manufacturers' Association (JAMA) and specifies quality system requirements for the design, development, production, installation and servicing of automotive related products.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 June 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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TS16949 members, including GM, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Peugeot-Citroen, Renault, VW, BMW, Mitsubishi and national automotive trade associations from the USA, Germany, UK, Italy, Japan and France, define the specifications and mandate suppliers meet the certification requirement in order to participate in the automotive market.
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Worldwide consumption of vehicles for 2003 reached 60.5 million units and is expected to grow to 65 million vehicles by 2007.
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"Over the past year, all of Fairchild's manufacturing facilities worldwide that produce automotive products, have received certification of this rigorous automotive quality standard", said Mark Rioux, Director of Fairchild's Quality and Reliability organisation worldwide.
"By applying this standard to all of our quality processes and locations, Fairchild's customers in all end markets worldwide can benefit".
ISO/TS16949 is considered the most comprehensive of the existing industry standards and is generally accepted by all major industries, allowing certified companies' full participation in the automotive market segment.
This standard also avoids the proliferation of multiple certification audits and provides a common approach to quality management systems for production in most industries.
Fairchild's quality system, such as advanced product quality planning (APQP), failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), statistical process control (SPC), 8D problem solving, and production part approval process (PPAP) are consistent with ISO/TS16949 requirements and emphasise continuous focus on quality in all phases of product development manufacturing.
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