Much has been said and written about changes occurred in companies during the last years, when we have been passing from a closed and government directed economy to an strong competition in a global market, specially referring to the automotive branch.
This report is an analysis of engineering functions organization inside an autopart company, evaluating in this environment of the modification, from a functional and departmentalized model, passing from engineering cells creation, to a more recent pattern based in result teams which act in an integrated multifunctional and flexible way, incorporating the various functions necessary for task performances.
Evidently, we will be talking about information systems evolution and the use of quality tools which had a fundamental role in this process.