Required LPA Schedule

[MikeT]

Good Afternoon! Sorry folks if this has already been asked. Just jumping back into the Cove after a few years.

For my company, let's say we got 12 process areas to be audited. For FCA LPA requirements, is it required to audit every process area every day/shift? Or can we scheduled all process areas to be audited over the course of a 2 week timespan? As long as we have a define audit schedule, this seems legit to me.

Stellantis CSR is vague. It says all operational manufacturing areas must be audited. It says all shifts must be audited. But it does not say all process areas must be audited every shift.

 

[A. Farina]

Mike, the last CSR published in June says: "All management levels should be involved (from team leader to top management) but at least the management of operational teams shall be involved (e.g.: in manufacturing area, from shift/team leader to manufacturing leader.) The pointers for external auditors auditing your LPA process (also in the CSR) are: "LPA schedule is established and regularly updatedRegular review take place with top management".
I concur with you they are vague and would suggest you have a schedule in place that is common sense for a) coverage of all areas b) periodic ensuring no area will be "abandoned" and not audit at least once a week, but this will depend on how many auditors you have. c) Multilayered, having top management all the way down to floor management and specialists, proportionating the frequency as per the level of management (i.e. top management less frequent, lower management more frequent etc) d) live questions e) action plans actively managed e) results and performance discussed on management reviews.
I solved the shift problem assigning supervisors and specialists who work on shift to perform LPAs
I also have at least one upper management rep to audit per week and keep track of it.
Amount of audits performed is a function of amount of auditors available X areas to be audited so there is not a fixed number, but I'd try having at least one LPA per week per area and every auditor on base layer auditing every week, top layer at least every month
I hope it helps...