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Industries·Automotive and parts

Zero defects, zero repeats.

8D, control plans and layered process audits kept connected across lines and plants.

Frameworks
IATF 16949, ISO 9001, WCM · TPM · Lean
Teams
Quality, Continuous improvement, Operations
Line workers fit a door onto a car body as a team leader watches with a tablet.Plant 5seal failureSame risk6 plantsFixed at9 plants
Where the paperwork piles up

Four places it piles up in automotive and parts.

01

8Ds that take weeks to close

02

Control plans that drift from the line

03

Customer-specific requirements across programmes

04

The same defect at a sister plant

One event, handled

From the first signal to the last approval.

  1. A customer reports a torque defect.

  2. The 8D starts with the history of similar defects and the control plan.

  3. The error-proofing fix reaches every line that runs the same part.

−52%

defects with digital instructions instead of paper

Source · Letmathe & Rößler, Journal of Operations Management, 2022
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