ISO 9001 & IATF 16949
Effective integration of quality to drive your performance.
Connect strategy, compliance and processes to risk, control, corrective action and customer insights in one live system. Quality becomes part of how your business operates, not a scramble before the next audit.
The problem
Automotive customers expect zero defects and full traceability. But PFMEAs in spreadsheets, control plans in Word, corrective actions in email and audit reports on shared drives cannot show how quality connects across the business. Quality sits alongside the organisation rather than being integrated into it, with a compliance mindset instead of a performance mindset.
Finding the current version becomes a job in itself.
Teams rebuild the links between risks, controls and records by hand.
Actions close on paper without checking whether the root cause is resolved.
OEM requirements sit in files, disconnected from the processes that must meet them.
Manually compiled KPI packs are out of date by management review.
One connected quality system
A pre-configured quality management system built for ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949:2016. Links between risk, control, measurement and improvement are created as work happens, not reconstructed before an audit.
Make quality part of business performance, not a separate compliance exercise.
Keep requirements and the documents teams use controlled, current and accessible.
Anchor every quality record to the process it belongs to, as the work happens.
Turn findings into improvement with traceable evidence and verified closure.
Inside the solution
Turn each process into a live record: what goes in, what comes out, who runs it, how it is controlled and how it is measured.
Inputs, outputs, resources, people, methods and measures captured in a live turtle diagram.
Each operational risk shows the control or work instruction that mitigates it.
Process objectives flow down to departments, so every owner sees their share of the target.
Schedule internal audits against the same process record they will test.
In practice: a tooling record ties mould-damage risk to the press maintenance schedule and downtime targets across departments. When a tool fails, everyone works from the same record.
Performance management
Compliance tells you whether the system works. Performance management tells you whether it is working for the business. Every quality measure carries a target, an owner and a trend, and every audit and risk is linked to the business result it protects.
Each headline measure shows its target and movement against the previous period, so reviews focus on direction, not just counts.
Every audit records the risk it covers and the business measure it protects, from first pass yield to on-time delivery and equipment uptime.
On-time CAPA closure and findings closed on time warn early; repeat nonconformities and complaints confirm the result.
Every KPI is rated on track, at risk or off track with a six-month trend, so attention goes where performance is slipping.
Log the nonconformity or incident against its process.
Capture containment and structured root-cause analysis.
Assign an action, owner and due date; update controls.
Check effectiveness against the relevant KPI.
Keep the evidence ready for the next audit.
Tier 1 to Tier 3 manufacturers certified to, or working towards, IATF 16949.
One quality system and one set of dashboards across plants and legal entities.
Advisory firms that implement and maintain quality systems for their clients.
Start from a pre-configured model.
In-region with Unify Today or in your own environment.
SAP, ERP, Power BI and Microsoft 365.
Book a 60-minute walkthrough with our team and see how connected quality supports customer satisfaction and business performance.
