Quality Groups
Improve automotive industry products, services, and experience.
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Quality Steering Committee
Drive new standards and best practices to improve products and processes across the automotive industry.
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Bar Steel Best Practices
Be part of our collective progress on defect detection, prevention, and reaction.
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Guidelines for Safety-Critical Bulk/Catalog Materials
Consolidate existing knowledge and best practices for managing safety-critical bulk materials and catalog items.
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Heat Treat System Assessment
Clarify heat treatment process and requirements in pursuit of compliance and industry-wide excellence.
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Additional Active Groups
3D Model Technical Data Package Exchange Guideline
Accurate and efficient design data exchange in the Automotive Industry is critical for new product development between OEM(s) and their supply base. Without an accurate or clean data exchange, translation errors and missing information enter the data exchange process, introducing delays, non-conformances, and costs. AIAG’s 3D Model Technical Data Package Work Group will develop a guideline for exchanging product design information between customers and suppliers.
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Software Quality Assurance
Automotive software is a rapidly changing environment. AIAG agreed to create a manual to help OEM’s and suppliers control the process of releasing software into the industrial environment. The manual will provide guidance developed by OEM’s and suppliers to ensure a robust release of software, prescribing the steps and processes needed to ensure a quality release. The intention of this document is to reduce recalls and warranty claims and thus improve customer satisfaction.
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Supplier & Product Reliability Assurance
The automotive industry is changing rapidly, both with the technology in the vehicle and with the suppliers used to provide the technology, and the need for an updated, consistent tool to assess supplier and product reliability has never been stronger. AIAG’s Supplier & Product Reliability Assurance work group is tasked with updating current reliability tools and ensuring they are universally applicable to suppliers and products, in both internal and external evaluation.
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VDA & AIAG MSA/SPC
In 2023 the two organizations agreed to develop jointly revised versions of the current MSA and SPC manuals. The existing manuals have been in circulation for some time, and it was decided to develop new manuals that were the same on either side of the Atlantic. This is seen as a benefit for international organizations that operate in several territories.
Work is progressing well on the SPC document and then we will move on to the MSA manual. Both documents will be available for purchase in 2025.
