Hello all,
my company's currently supplying automotive parts as Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier, and we are IATF certified.
To take over a running project for a new German OEM, they require us to perform a Potential Analysis Audit per VDA 6.3.
Though we are familiar with VDA (German HQ, company's located in the US), I'd like to get everyone's input on conducting such an audit without releasing any confidential data from other customers.
We are currently struggling between choosing either a more similar product from another OEM, or a less (but still) similar product. That product is manufactured by us, goes to an external supplier for painting, on comes back to us to be used for another OEM's assembled product, but we could make a small own project out of this part, thus being able to share more data with the potential new customer.
Would there be bigger risks failing the POT if we used a less similar product?
Also, as the project we are looking to be nominated for is a running one, and we would take over serial equipment from the current supplier, we would be able to provide data for this project for some questions of P2 - P4 from the auditing customer's product. Would it be a good idea, or too much to switch between the actual product and our similar one?
Last question, does anyone have experience on how auditors react if there is no VDA certified auditor in the plant?
We have internal auditors that are certified per IATF, and it was sufficient for all our current customers.
This customer will require internal audits conducted by a VDA certified internal auditor. I am planning to do the VDA exam later this year, and as we still did not get a nomination from the customer yet, can they count the absence of a VDA auditor as non-conformation?
Thank you in advance
my company's currently supplying automotive parts as Tier 1 and Tier 2 supplier, and we are IATF certified.
To take over a running project for a new German OEM, they require us to perform a Potential Analysis Audit per VDA 6.3.
Though we are familiar with VDA (German HQ, company's located in the US), I'd like to get everyone's input on conducting such an audit without releasing any confidential data from other customers.
We are currently struggling between choosing either a more similar product from another OEM, or a less (but still) similar product. That product is manufactured by us, goes to an external supplier for painting, on comes back to us to be used for another OEM's assembled product, but we could make a small own project out of this part, thus being able to share more data with the potential new customer.
Would there be bigger risks failing the POT if we used a less similar product?
Also, as the project we are looking to be nominated for is a running one, and we would take over serial equipment from the current supplier, we would be able to provide data for this project for some questions of P2 - P4 from the auditing customer's product. Would it be a good idea, or too much to switch between the actual product and our similar one?
Last question, does anyone have experience on how auditors react if there is no VDA certified auditor in the plant?
We have internal auditors that are certified per IATF, and it was sufficient for all our current customers.
This customer will require internal audits conducted by a VDA certified internal auditor. I am planning to do the VDA exam later this year, and as we still did not get a nomination from the customer yet, can they count the absence of a VDA auditor as non-conformation?
Thank you in advance
