Products for Quality Management and Process Improvement
Below you find an overview of the “products” we in any way “deliver”, as open training, as internal training, as live open trainings through Teams/Zoom or as consultancy service. Most of the products (but not all) are developed by VDA QMC in Germany. These standardized products are many times tailored by us to fit Scandinavian culture and vocabulary.
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About WEDEAQ
WEDEAQ Scandinavia AB is a Swedish consulting company specializing in quality management and quality development in the automotive business according to requirements in IATF 16949 and based on methods from VDA QMC and AIAG. We have more than a decade of experience in the field and are the official licensed partner of VDA QMC in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Finland.
We provide expert-led training, internal audits, consulting services, and translated VDA publications to support manufacturers in meeting international automotive quality standards. Our services are designed for companies across Scandinavia and the Baltic region – including Estonia – that aim to improve their quality systems, prepare for certification, and enhance process performance.
We operate in:
Sweden
Finland
Norway
Denmark
Estonia
The only official VDA QMC partner in the Nordics.
Process Audit VDA 6.3
Process Audit VDA 6.3 means a monitoring of project management, project planning, implementation of projects, purchasing, production and customer service. VDA 6.3 is a method developed as an internal tool, with proven success and which now has spread outside the automotive industry. It is about to become a global standard for auditing process and it provides an excellent tool for continuous improvements of product and process development.
FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis)
Failure Mode Effect Analysis, FMEA is a preventive method that involves identifying potential risks to a product or process and evaluating the severity of the effects for the customer or user. The automotive industry has been using the method since the 1960s and now a (almost entirely) new edition has been developed that represents major changes for those who will work with risk management.
Product Audit VDA 6.5
Product audits serve as a tool for management in the independent evaluation of products from the point of view of customers and to ensure that complaints do not arise from defects in products and its characteristics. With VDA 6.5 competence, you get a tool that facilitates the planning and implementation of product audits effectively.
PSCR (Product Integrity)
Product integrity, or product safety and conformity representative (PSCR) means competence if laws and regulations that authorities inside and outside the EU have in respect of on highway vehicles. We learn more about this and how we should act as a supplier to the automotive industry, about organization, use in the development process, deviation management and planning.
Quality Management System IATF 16949
Management systems according to IATF 16949 (previously ISO/TS 16949) represent more than 120 new requirements (new headlines) to the basic requirements of ISO 9001:2015. There are comprehensive additional requirements for purchasing, competence development, process capaciticity and efficiency and efficiency of processes.
Quality Management System Services VDA 6.2
If you don’t deliver products to the automotive industry, but still want to “do a little more”, VDA 6.2 is an opportunity. In VDA 6.2, there are 50 additional requirements for ISO 9001 for, for example, competence development, internal audits, etc., if, for example, you supply consulting, calibration, maintenance or any other service, that will assist you in going beyond the basic requirement in ISO 9001:2015.
8D - Problem solving in 8 steps
Impact of problem solving is one of management’s most important tasks at all levels of the company and should be considered an opportunity to bring about sustainable improvements. The 8D method describes an 8-step process (disciplines) that begins with problem solving and ends with follow-up and verification of action.
MLA (Maturity Level Assurance For New Parts)
Ensuring maturity is a control method within project management initiated by OEM or by customer. The principle objective of the Maturation Method is to improve the quality of release, improve the quality of delivery and field quality of the products covered by harmonizing content and activities in the supply chain.
Internal Audits ISO 19011
ISO 19011 is a general (very good) standard for conducting audits regardless of the standard involved. The method follows the P-D-C-A model (Plan-Implement-Follow Up-Fix) and gives you good knowledge of how audits should generally be performed. Our training is in 3 days.
Measurement System Analysis MSA & VDA 5
Measurement system analysis is probably the most important method (tools) in Automotive Core Tools and a supporting part also in Six Sigma projects.“What you don’t know, you can’t control.” What you can’t control, you can’t improve” (Lord Kelvin).
We hold one and two-day courses in analysis of capability measurement systems and collaborate with Norsys/Minitab in training.
Automotive Core Tools
Automotive Core Tools is a package of methods intended for control and improvement of products and processes; In the Package developed by VDA QMC (course ID 417) the following tools are included as overview; Maturity Level Assurance (MLA), Product & Process Approval (PPAP), Measureemnt System Analysis (MSA), Disciplined Problem Solving methods – 8D, and Failure Mode and Effect Analysis – FMEA.