Manufacturing Technology and innovation

 IATF 16949 is a quality standard for automobile industries. This standard is used to maintain the quality of parts used in an automobile. To give your product to automobile industries your company should be certified with IATF16949. To supply product to automobile industries this certificate is compulsory. Exact meaning of automobile here is the vehicles that run on road or they are made to run on the roads, tractors, Earth movers and trains are not include in automobile. IATF is modified by group of OEMs and technical committee of ISO. It was developed to provide best quality product to the customer and also include specific requirements of the customer and focus on continuous improvement in all phase of manufacturing cycle even in supply chain management. Full form of IATF is International Automotive Task Force.  Task force is group of OEMs, that govern IATF. IATF members include the following vehicle manufacturers: BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company, Geely Group, Gen

 What is Audit? Audit is a process of examination or revalidation of the work done other than the core owner of the that area or work done by the person. For example if you gave your car for repairing work and service center have you back the car back and you check the work of service team, it is a type of audit. Person how did the repairing work and he himself check the quality then it is not an audit but his manager or delivery team check repair work before hand over to the customer then also this process is known as audit. Audit is on-site varification of the fulfillment of the compliance. Mostly Audit is done on-site but now a days some audit can be done online also. Some people or institute take audit as a burdon but it is process that improves the existing process or system and eliminate any loop holes in the system. Different type of Audit? As per ISO 19011 there are three different types of audit, this is on the basis of what is auditing. Process Audit System Audit Product Audi

 Agile is one of the latest methodology used in Manufacturing. English meaning of Agile is Fast and rapid, and industries it means how fast one can accept and adapt the changes going on, wheather it is from technology or customer demand. Agile methodologies is started in IT industry and from there it is now used in manufacturing Industries also. The main of Agile is to deliver the product as per the customer requirement and delivery of the product should be at faster rate because now a days change in every field is taking in a great pace. If any product that deliver after one year or so, the features in that product will completely change and there will be new requirement in the product. There should be quick response to the customer need & requirement. Agile is some what related to Lean manufacturing. What do Agile methodology mean in IT industry? Long back the waterfall model is used for software development. In waterfall model there are five main steps which are arranged in sequ