I am very new in the Quality field (3 years) I have been working with QS, ISO and have exposure to the procedures being a Manufacturing Supervisor for 18 years. In Dec 2003 I joined a company as a Quality Inspector and withinn three weeks I was promoted to Quality Supervisor. I have been thru 5 Regristration audits and have passed all of them with some majors. minors, OFI and the most recent in May, 2007 with 0 NCMs, it has been an interesting learning curve. Currently we are being asked by some of our Customers to certify our company under the ISO/TS 19649 and my question is were do I start?

I am very new in the Quality field (3 years) I have been working with QS, ISO and have exposure to the procedures being a Manufacturing Supervisor for 18 years. In Dec 2003 I joined a company as a Quality Inspector and withinn three weeks I was promoted to Quality Supervisor. I have been thru 5 Regristration audits and have passed all of them with some majors. minors, OFI and the most recent in May, 2007 with 0 NCMs, it has been an interesting learning curve. Currently we are being asked by some of our Customers to certify our company under the ISO/TS 19649 and my question is were do I start?

Here! :D

There is alot of information right here on the cove. You could start just by looking at all the threads for TS. If I am not mistaken there is a matrix on here for the differences between ISO 9000/2000 and TS16949. That would be a good place to start. If I can find it, I will post the link.

It is nice to get help from others, it sure makes it a lot easier. I will be looking for the link.

Thanks,
julio

I am very new in the Quality field (3 years) I have been working with QS, ISO and have exposure to the procedures being a Manufacturing Supervisor for 18 years. In Dec 2003 I joined a company as a Quality Inspector and withinn three weeks I was promoted to Quality Supervisor. I have been thru 5 Regristration audits and have passed all of them with some majors. minors, OFI and the most recent in May, 2007 with 0 NCMs, it has been an interesting learning curve. Currently we are being asked by some of our Customers to certify our company under the ISO/TS 19649 and my question is were do I start?

One place would be to look at the strengths and weakenesses of your current system. I'm assuming that you make automotive products as defined by the 'TS' rules - for on road vehicles......

Another place would be with your management. Your customer may be asking you, but are your management behind that request, or will doing TS get in their way? If they are not behind it, as a way of doing business better, even if the customer does want it, the whole thing will end up being 'yours'.....

http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=6442

Try this link.

With Gap Analysis QS 9001:2000 to TS 16949
(http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=22210)
Then
Here: A TS 16949 Implementation through Registration Project Diary - Automotive (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=8664)
and
here: A good step by step TS 16949 implimentation plan and strategy - New Company (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=20492)