Change record: AIAG and VDA publish a harmonized SPC manual
AIAG announced a joint statistical process control manual for the automotive supply chain covering process monitoring, qualification, capability, and relationships to adjacent core tools.
What changed
AIAG announced a joint statistical process control manual for the automotive supply chain covering process monitoring, qualification, capability, and relationships to adjacent core tools.
This entry preserves the event separately from maintained provider and capability conclusions. A rule, announcement, release, enforcement record, or market transaction can be material before enough evidence exists to revise a company classification or comparison.
Operating consequence
Automotive manufacturers, suppliers, training owners, and software providers need edition-aware method, template, calculation, and migration decisions.
Teams should identify which records, populations, systems, transactions, jurisdictions, products, or decisions fall within the change. Then assign an accountable owner, response date, evidence requirement, and disposition. Broad reassessment is not always necessary, but a material event deserves a documented decision.
Capabilities to revisit
Statistical Process Control And Process Capability
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for statistical process control and process capability.
Calibration And Gage Management
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for calibration and gage management.
FMEA And Control Plans
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for FMEA and control plans.
Quality Cost, KPI, And Management Review
Review the maintained workflow definition, then ask affected organizations to show how this event alters inputs, governed rules, human judgment, exceptions, action, evidence retention, and downstream exchange for quality cost, KPI, and management review.
Questions for operating teams
- Which exact population and effective date does the source establish?
- Does the change alter authority, policy, content, workflow, integration, evidence, or only market positioning?
- What customer-controlled interpretation, configuration, or process remains outside a provider's responsibility?
- What test case would show whether the operational consequence has reached production?
- What record will close, defer, or supersede this review?
Evidence boundary
The source class is Official industry-association publication. It establishes only the statements supported by the linked record and does not, by itself, establish implementation depth, market-wide availability, transaction-specific applicability, independent efficacy, or a universal buyer conclusion.