The Automotive Quality Core Tools, also known as Quality Core Tools or just simply Core Tools are key pillars of an effective quality management system. Over 30 years ago, AIAG (Automotive Industry Action Group) and ASQ (American Society of Quality) collaborated with the domestic automotive manufacturers Ford, GM, and Chrysler now FCA to establish collective quality methods and tools, which became known as the Quality Core Tools.

PMC offers Quality Core Tools Training that covers all tools including Advanced Product Quality Planning & Control Plan (APQP), Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Statistical Process Control (SPC), and Measurement System Analysis (MSA).

• APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) and Control Plans decrease the complexity of product quality planning for customers and suppliers.


• PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) ensures engineering design and customer product specification requirements are met.


• FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a risk assessment tool used to identify and address potential failure modes in products and in processes.


• MSA (Measurement System Analysis) warrants organizations to evaluate their quality measurement systems, which in return provide better product quality.


• SPC (Statistical Process Control) describes several basic and advanced statistical methods to ensure process improvements are as effective as possible.

PMC partners with Siemens to provide a complete suite of Quality Management Products for integrated solutions of compliance and quality requirements.

• CompliantPro QMS Software is a tool that ensures a company’s quality assurance requirements are documented in a single, integrated system breaks down silos of information managed as point solutions.


• QMS Professional Software is a process-oriented, modular system that supports the closed-loop quality product lifecycle, managing complexities for planning, control and monitoring of processes and corporate quality.

PMC provides multiple Auditing services which includes:

• Internal Auditing. PMC offers to develop, implement, conduct, and sustain the internal auditing program. Internal Auditing includes:
  
  
  • Quality Management System Auditing, using process-approach is to verify compliance with QMS standard.
  
  
  • Manufacturing Process Auditing, using customer-specific approach is to determine the process effectiveness and efficiencies.
  
  
  • Layered Process Auditing is a system of audits performed by multiple levels of supervision and management to monitor key process, product, and service characteristics to verify process conformance on an ongoing basis.
  
  
  • Product Auditing using customer-specific approach is to verify product’s conformity to specified requirements.


• 2nd Party Auditing.
  
  
  • Supplier Risk Assessment
  • Supplier Monitoring
  • Supplier QMS Development
  • Process Auditing
  • Product Auditing