DESCRIPTION
The course presents at an intermediate level, the standards, manuals, tools and techniques specific to the automotive industry while providing an integrated overview of them, as required from both perspectives: Voice of the Customer (VOC ) and Voice of the Business (VOB). Participants will be able to identify, on the Product Life Cycle phases, the associated specific requirements applicable in the supply chain (e.g.: tier1, tier2, tier 3+) up to OEM and End-User. They will also be able to understand the automotive requirements (e.g.: ISO, IATF 16949, AIAG, VDA, CSR, etc.) in terms of applicability, overlaps and peculiarities.
TARGET GROUP
The course is addressed to active engineers from automotive industry, by completing and deepening their competences, thus ensuring the framework for the efficient and effective development of multidisciplinary teams. Also, the course represents an excellent platform for a further specialization of the engineers in the automotive industry, while clarifying the roles and functions of those already specialized (Product/ Service Design, Research and Development, Testing, Quality, Design and Improvement of the Manufacturing Process).
The training program is provided under LSSA© license and is available in class, with a duration of 6 days of 8 hours/day, as well as in LIVE ONLINE version, being composed of 18 interactions in webinar format, of 2 hours each, grouped as standard in 6 days (3 webinars / day). The acquisition of the competencies associated with the course can be demonstrated, optionally, by obtaining the international LSSA certification, following an individual online exam.
OBJECTIVES
This training program, optionally available with international certification, aims to complement that very difference in approach specific to the Automotive Industry, compared to other industries. The peculiarity of this course is that it methodically covers an integrative theme, addressed to Engineers (Design, ME, Process, Quality, etc.) and Middle-Management, having defined a "Skillset" structured on four main axes:
- Norms, standards and specific approach in the Automotive Industry
- Design - Product and Process Development
- Production - Process Execution Control
- Continuous Improvement
WHY THIS COURSE?
- Excellent introductory training tool for personnel newly employed in the industry but also a very good support for regular, ongoing training.
- Dedicated to Practitioners: Midle-Management, Engineers and Specialists in the Automotive Industry, the critical mass for the stabilization of a specific industrial culture.
- It provides clarity, presenting in an integrated manner all the flow of activities, with the associated roles, in the Automotive Industry (Product and Process); from "Concept Validation" to "Product End-of-Life".
- It addresses the specific, fundamental skills needed in the Automotive industry and helps align roles in multidisciplinary teams.
TOPICS
- Recall the most important moments in automotive history. Recall the most commonly used definitions, terms and abbreviations.
- Describe the supply chain and understand the key challenges in the automotive industry, how Products and Processes are Released , what change notifications are
- Recall what customer requirements and expectations, and their roles are. Understand what customer focus means.
- Understand the engineering job roles in the automotive industry.
- Recall different laws, regulations, and directives important in the automotive industry. Recall the complexity and the relations between these several norms and standards.
- Understand the automotive process landscape and the multidisciplinary (process) approach.
- Understand Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) he link between Life Cycle Engineering (LCE) and sustainability.
- Understand the objectives of APQP, why and when APQP is used Identify the different phases of APQP.
- Understand the Product Development Process, V-Model and the development life cycle.
- Understand the risk management (A-SPICE, FMEA), failure mode effects and analyses.
- Interpret the hazard and risk analyses based on ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
- Describe machine variation (Special cause and Common cause). Participate in collecting, measuring and interpreting data.
- Interpret short-term variation: Process Capability (Cp and Cpk) and long-term variation: Process Performance (Pp and Ppk).
- Describe what measurement system analysis (MSA) is. Participate in a measurement system analysis and interpret its outcomes.
- Describe how and why processes are controlled during production, what statistical process control (SPC) is. what a control plan and Out-of-Control Action Plan (OCAP) are.
- Describe the relations between process FMEA, control plan and OCAPs.
- SQA - Understand how suppliers are controlled in the automotive industry. PPAP si EMPB. Understand how a supplier audit (VDA 6.3) is performed, why and how Automotive SPICE® Assessments are performed.
- Management of Change: Describe the risk of changes. Describe change notification, PPAP and EMPB.. Understand the interface with change management in design and development.
- Continuous Improvement: Problem Solving (Describe 8D, Identify Containment actions , Root Causes: 5Why, Ishikawa etc, Describe Relationship with FMEA and CP), Kaizen, basic Six Sigma (DMAIC), Lean Manufacturing (Value Adding – VA/NVA, Muda-Muri-Mura, 5S, Standardised Work, Flow: Push & Pull, Kanban).
