VDA 6.3 – Workshop for Certified Process Auditor

[MNobomvu]

Good day everyone,

My name is Mbeko Nobomvu, Supplier Quality Engineer based in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

My VDA6.3 Process Auditor Certificate expired last year.

One of the options presented to me for re-certification was VDA 6.3 – Workshop for Certified Process Auditor because I did not have enough audits.

Can you please explain the process of re-certification through VDA 6.3 – Workshop for Certified Process Auditor Workshop.

What does it entail ?. Any prior preparation required, any assessments done on the day?. Anything that might help prior to the workshop ?.

Regards,
Mbeko Nobomvu

 

[tada22689]

Hello Mbeko

Your auditor card expired last year , so normally you have to join the examination again to get new auditor card. But due to covid-19, VDA QMC have extend the validity of your auditor card (expired in 2020) until end of 2021. So you don't need to retake the examination.
To do renewal, you have to:
1. Provide evidence of at least 5 process audits with minimum10 days durations as lead auditor. If not, you have to join "ID341-VDA 6.3 – Workshop for Certified Process Auditor". This course is only one day. It will give a summary of VDA 6.3 content and give you some exercises with audit scenarios. No test or assessment. If you are not used VDA6.3 frequently, it is better to read again VDA6.3 standard before joining.
2. You have to pass the online core tools quiz of VDA. If not passing it, you have to join "ID417-Automotive core tools for process and system auditor" This course take 2 days and it is not easy if you are not familiar with VDA core tools like MLA, VDA2, VDA4, VDA5.

Hope this helps

 

[Quality_one]

Dear All,

What can I expect for the oral exam? Thank you in advance.

 

[tada22689]

Dear All,

What can I expect for the oral exam? Thank you in advance.

Hi Quality_one
Your question is too general, but i can share the experience with the exam of VDA6.3 as below.
The exams of VDA6.3 includes:
- written exam: with 40 questions, multiple choice, 60 mins of time limitation
- oral exam: you will have a case study with an audit scenario. You have 30 mins to do preparation (define the process to be audited, do risk analysis using turtle model for that process, define audit findings from the scenario, assign the findings to VDA6.3 questions, do scoring and apply downgrading rule based on the score). Then you bring your preparation to the examiner for interview. the limitation for this interview is 20 mins.

To pass the oral, below are the important things:
- you need to have knowledge about the process to be audited (for example: project management, product/process design, supplier management...) if you don't have, you can not do turtle analysis, and you can not define the findings.
- You need to understand VDA6.3 questionnaire. If not, you can not assign the findings to the correct questions.
- You need to understand the scoring rule. If not, you may give wrong score.
- You need to understand the downgrading rule. If not, you have applied it wrongly.

Hope this helps

 

[Quality_one]

Hi tada22689
Thank you for your response.
This is extremely helpful for preparing me for the examination.