Concurrent realisation and quality assurance of products in the automotive industry

TLDR

The study aims to shorten product realization time, cut costs, improve quality, and boost customer satisfaction by integrating quality standards into concurrent automotive product development. The authors employ a track‑and‑loop framework with parallelness, standardisation, and integration strategies, defining five concurrent loops and seven quality‑planning milestones to embed automotive quality standards throughout the development process. A case study demonstrates that the track‑and‑loop approach successfully integrates automotive quality standards and illustrates the full course of concurrent product realization and quality assurance for a car component.

Abstract

The aim of the concurrent product realisation and quality assurance of products is to shorten the realisation time, reduce realisation costs, increase the quality of products and thus increase customer satisfaction. In a case study of a project of the concurrent realisation of products (components for the automotive industry), it is shown how the requirements of quality standards for the automotive industry can be integrated in processes of the concurrent product realisation project, based on track-and-loop principle and three strategies: parallelness, standardisation and integration. This article gives an overview of quality-related standards in the automotive industry, the principles of sequential and concurrent product realisation and the course of concurrent product realisation and quality assurance of products in the automotive industry. Five loops of concurrent product realisation processes are defined for the automotive industry, as well as seven milestones of advanced product quality planning. A course of concurrent realisation and quality assurance of products in the automotive industry is shown in the case of the concurrent realisation of a car component.