Powering Performance

For OEMs and suppliers, productivity and profitability go hand in hand. AIAG works to deliver global solutions to drive rework, error, and waste out of your processes, meaning your business is more efficient and prepared to take on what lies ahead.

Under the AIAG umbrella, over 900 industry volunteers collaborate on smart answers that solve global automotive challenges every year. Publications, guidelines, and industry standards are designed to advance continuous improvement in business practices, encourage collaboration, and provide global resolutions to industry issues.

OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers need their Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers to help them be competitive in today’s automotive market. But what do the OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers really want and need from their suppliers? AIAG and leadership of OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers came together to identify the key issues of quality supplier resources:

Our work demands responsibility. A coalition of manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, and service providers, AIAG values an open, active forum for identifying emerging threats to the sustainable growth of the automotive industry. 

Among those threats is the use of conflict minerals - so called, as the mining of tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold in the metal-rich Democratic Republic of Congo has helped fund violent militia groups. Accordingly, in 2012, the Dodd-Frank Act was signed into law requiring publicly-traded companies to disclose their sources. While the ruling does not explicitly prohibit the use of these minerals, the resultant market changes have since stymied warlords' access to soldiers and weapons. 

In January, AIAG released the 2nd edition of CQI-8, the industry's guideline for Layered Process Audits (LPAs). This new version updates the first edition, released over eight years ago, and clarifies how LPAs support a company's business objective.