GKN Driveline Brazil Internal Management System Adaptation to ISO/TS 16949 Technical Specification Requirements

The automotive industry suppliers are constantly looking forward to adapting their projects management system (new developments) to the quality management systems requirements, such as the standards QS 9000, ISO/TS 16949 e ISO 9000:2000 and specific requirements related to customers reference manuals. As these quality systems are always getting updated, to attend the ISO/TS 16949 (1st edition - 1999) technical specification requirements was defined as main purpose. It was necessary to undertake a comparison between ISO/TS 16949 and the common system used by GKN Driveline in its 46 Operations located in 20 countries to manage product launch on customer vehicle programmes; this system has the title Customer Application Programme Management - (CAPM). In order to reduce the amount of documentation to be fulfilled, a global investigation regarding the documentation used by CAPM management system and ISO/TS 16949 technical specifications was done. This paper will be divided in general information of the company where this work was implemented; general information about the CAPM structure and work methodology; introductory information related to ISO/TS 16949 technical specification; and how GKN Driveline Brazil did a correlation between these two systems - ISO/TS 16949 vs. CAPM. As a final result, systemized and functional process was obtained, which is able to attend both systems in a synthesized way, generating the less additional documentation possible.