Hi,guys

A consultant said in a ISO/TS16949 training course that R&D is not a value-added process.This puzzled me a lot.

Need your help.thanks!


Below are some items extracted from ISO/TS16949 :

Supporting functions, whether on-site or remote (such as design centres, corporate headquarters and distribution centres)...

3.1.10
remote location
location that supports sites and at which non-production processes occur
3.1.11
site
location at which value-added manufacturing processes occur

...a consultant said in a ISO/TS16949 training course that R&D is not a value-added process.This puzzled me a lot.


Perhaps he was referring to R&D as practiced in the American automotive industry. :notme::D

Perhaps he was referring to R&D as practiced in the American automotive industry. Come on, Jim. Who else invented the disposable car?

A consultant said in a ISO/TS16949 training course that R&D is not a value-added process.This puzzled me a lot.
3.1.11
site
location at which value-added manufacturing processes occurR&D is a value added process but it is not a manufacturing v-a process.

I think R&D is a value added process.

R&D is value added but in terms of application of TS only (as you say) value added manufacturing sites are applicable for TS.
You are both right but misunderstood one another.