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Basic OEM Quality System
Overview
In today’s world of globalization, OEMs must have some criteria for qual-
ity, capacity, delivery, and performance. Those criteria, depending on the
organization and product, do vary; however, all of them have four basic
characteristics and requirements. They are
1. Certication to ISO 9001 standard (ISO 2008)
2. Certication to ISO 14001 standard
3. Certication to industry standards, that is, ISO/TS 16949–automotive;
AS 9100–aerospace; and others
4. The organization’s own standards, that is, Ford Motor Company’s Q1
(Ford Motor Company 2013), Chrysler’s Pentastar, and GM’s Global
Quality
The rst three ...