Quality Improvement of Power Assisted Steering Gear

This paper describes how Visteon PD and Mfg make efforts in order to achieve a reduction of field guarantee issues, which affect the PAS (Power Assisted Gear) performance. Based on Quality Warranty reports, a specific Engineers Team identified that external oil leakage was important enough to have effects to be notice justifying investments to develop more knowledge about how the failure process growth. After proper analyze home team took firm grip on the root causes and then propose corrective and preventive actions that in a short time could be introduced in the PAS manufacturing.