Good auditors never do "revenue stream audits." Those that do should be fired....those that hire such auditors will eventually be filtered out one way or another...
I was one of the First 100 certified Lead auditors to TS2 by Omnex Toronto Jan 2003 and lead Nemak SA to their certification at Southfield MI in July 2003 and the Monterrey MX Plant during Nov 2003. I was our Lead Auditor at the Sales office, and a resident Engineer at Ford Romeo until 2007 when Ford made survival changes prior to the onset of the great recession.
After leaving Nemak I worked for RAB-IATCA IAQC-SEG and was chosen to be in the group that was looking at Systems Effectiveness, and the lack of teeth that AS 9100 had.
I was at Hamilton Sundstrand during a visit that had their Registrar Auditors there doing the Rockford IL during week BSI was their registrar.
Their Lead Auditor was very distraught because of total systemic failure of four areas. He called Herndon VA and was instructed that UTC was their biggest client, and that he was not going to endanger this long standing relationship.
This illustrates that ISO Registrars are a dime a dozen, and the TS Registrars are static, and possibly shrinking as the IAOB moves forward.
The TS standard in China was a joke, and lead to risks that will now drive a new wave of "In-sourcing".
