i am the newly assigned qs mgnt rep. for one of the rubber companies (tires). we are qs9000 certified. we know we need to go to iso/ts 16949 within the nezt year and also go to iso 9001-200 b4 dec 2003. when iso/ts 16949 meets up with iso 9001-2000 next year will it/they/them be in the 20-element (like qs 9000) format or the 8-element format(like the qs9001-2000 format)? does anyone have a correspondence from qs9000 to isots 16949 to qs9001-2000?

The format for TS16949:2000 (for lack of a better name) has not been released yet, but it will probably follow the ISO9K:2000 format.

which file specificallly? i could only find one comparing iso/ts 16949 to qs9000.

acc. to iatf, it'll be caLLED: ISO/TS 16949:2002.(OCT 4, 2000 IATF COMMUNIQUE: http://www.iaob.org/ ).

The draft of this document I have lists the title as "Second Edition 2002-03-01".

Scott,

Where did you get the draft of the document?

ASD

'Latest' info is at http://www.iaob.org/iatfpr/iatf_communique_1000_files/frame.htm