For Manufacturers in North America, Competition is no longer price or capacity driven but it depends on the organizations capability of providing consistent product at the required time. To gain customer trust there is no other better way than delivering quality product or service at the required time. Organizations that prosper in long term is due to its strength in the Quality Management System (QMS).
At Kadmar Consultants, we work with manufacturers in North America from design to implement stage and work towards sustaining stage for ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949.
A QMS has the same context globally as it is for North American organizations. Quality Management System is a standard that provides organization as a solid framework to build quality and reliable product and service as per customer needs and requirements at the right time and quantity. This means QMS is no longer misinterpreted as a paperwork or compliance documentation. It helps shape organizations and provide it purpose of sustainability.
A strong QMS will provide answers to all below key questions:
What is the organizations scope and vision for long term?
What quality objectives will help achieve it?
How will it be achieved?
Who is responsible for making it happen?
What are the obstacles, constraints and risk associated with it and how to mitigate it?
A strong QMS is the backbone of the organization. It is the medium through which communication and actions take place within the organization.
The first and foremost need is customer requirement and customer demand drives QMS implementation need. Either it is OEMs or tier-one suppliers, everyone requires working with suppliers/organizations who can provide consistent and reliable product on time. With a weak QMS unfortunately organizations are losing business to its competitors.
Globally Supply Chain now carries a dominant weight in the current era than ever. Manufacturers are part of a complex international supply chain, and this is where the International Standards helps as standardizing tool. ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 helps the entire supply chain in achieving standardization and maintaining a robust QMS.
A compulsory required of OEMs is the certification to the international standard. A company certified to ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 maintains competitive advantage over other competitors.
Compliance with regulatory, statutory and customer-specific requirements is easier with a structured QMS in place. It keeps you audit-ready and minimizes costly nonconformities.
A QMS helps organization to move from reactive approach to proactive approach. It embeds risk-based thinking into the organizations core that helps plan action ahead of time.
The standard helps organizations to map the correct processes as per its scope and requirement. This helps organization in standardizing processes and eliminate inefficiencies, duplication and aids in On Time Delivery.
Standardize process and clear procedures, and risk assessments help detect potential issues early. This results in lower Cost of Poor Quality.
When processes are designed in Plan Do Check Act cycle each process gets interlinked to one another and works towards the scope of the organization. The Check Phase evaluates the results through KPIs, internal audits, and management reviews.
The best part of the standard is, it is applied to everyone in the organization. It creates synergy in the team and gives ownership and accountability to everyone in working together towards a common goal.
The standard itself is a strong Continuous Improvement Tool which is not understood well globally and is left as a misinterpretation of paper requirement.
ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949 a global standard that creates standardization around the world. A strong globalization tool that helps organizations in different region work together and understand the same language despite of cultural differences. The main element of the standard is enforcing risk-based thinking, leadership involvement, and process integration.
At Kadmar Consultants, we partner with businesses to foster the culture of operational excellence. Our aim is to make North America world leader in quality.
Our Core Services Include:
ISO 9001 & IATF 16949 Implementation Services.
Employee and Internal Auditor Training.
Gap Analysis & Process Mapping.
Pre-Audit Readiness & Support.
Continuous Improvement Frameworks.
For Certification Bodies and OEMs
If you’re a Certification Body (CB) or OEM, partnering with Kadmar Consultants ensures your clients and suppliers are fully prepared before they reach the certification stage.
Whether you’re a manufacturer seeking certification, an OEM improving supplier compliance, or a CB supporting clients, Kadmar Consultants is here to help.
Contact us today to schedule a free consultation.
In the current industrial and digital era all manufacturers, automotive industries, certifying bodies and OEMs are facing immense pressure to improve and maintain the quality, and compliance across the supply chain. Suppliers are one of the key stakeholders that can affect OEMs deliverables and are high risk. Therefore, standards and CSRs requirements are being tightened to ensure every supplier meets IATF 16949 and Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs).
Kadmar Consultants works together with certifying bodies to help OEM build a strong and compliant supply chain.
Our Objective: Make supplier system robust that will aid the certification process and make it easier for the suppliers and certifying bodies, improve certification success, and improvise supplier base for all the OEMs throughout North America.
OEMs and certifying bodies are facing the same challenges when it comes to supply chain. Supplier performance is not as per requirement in quality and delivery both areas. Suppliers are currently facing challenges with skilled taskforce and robust Quality Management System. Quality Management System if applied correctly as a living standard can get rid of all the below issues.
This does not only slow and affects supplier certification process but also reduces customer satisfaction and are prone to repeat quality and delivery issue. The OEMs expect suppliers to provide same quality every time with zero issues.
Kadmar Consultants understands the customer pain- Let’s consider yourself as a customer to buy a vehicle from dealer sop. You as the customer will want your dealer to provide you the vehicle on the promised date in working condition. If you got the vehicle on time but it stopped in the middle of the road, what will you do? Same thing applies when a supplier ships a small component to the OEM, but that small equipment isa part of a big assembly line and if that component does not work the entire assembly line goes down.
For Certifying Bodies (CBs):
We help the supplier in preparing and maintaining the QMS and conducts their Pre-Audit Assessments before certification. The supplier system gets readily prepared for successful audits. Certification bodies gain benefits of high certification success rate, reduced audit time, no major non-conformities and ultimately gets high client satisfaction. We do all this by keeping impartiality in accordance with IATF guidelines.
For OEMs:
The role we play of building a robust QMS at supplier end helps the OEM in achieving their supply chain objective. We do offer partnership opportunities as well with the OEMs where we help improvise, train and develop their supplier system. This helps the entire supply chain with fewer disruptions, reduced warranty and quality claims.
Supplier Pre-Assessments and Second Party Audits
We performs Kadmar Validation Test Model (KVTM) a pre-assessment tool designed to evaluate and validate suppliers’ readiness for certification or surveillance audits.
We believe in testing and validating the system and take actions to correct the non-conformance before the CB audit.
Outcome:
Gap Analysis
We perform Kadmar Gap Analysis Model (KGAM) that identifies the supplier’s system gaps and align the strengths, weaknesses, and areas needing improvement with the organizations scope. After analyzing the gap, we develop and implement a tailored strategic plan that will rectify the gap, develop a robust system and eliminate repeat issues while ensuring long-term compliance.
Internal Auditor Training
Internal Auditor competency is the key for any supplier organization to succeed. Supplier organization needs trained and competent professionals tat understand their system and international standard and can align the two together. We provide solution for developing and maintaining competent internal auditor through:
We provide custom training as well tailored to organizations need and requirement.
We provide structured Kadmar Supplier Excellence Model (KSEM) that is divided into 3 level of certification. This model helps OEM in developing and maintaining supplier system as per the standard requirements. We evaluate, train, and coach suppliers to align with both IATF 16949 and OEM-specific CSRs — such as Ford, GM, Stellantis, Toyota, and Honda.
Our OEM supplier services include:
This proactive approach helps eliminate ciaos at all ends including suppliers, OEMs and CBs.
Post-Audit Support for CBs and OEMs
We provide support after the certification or recertification or surveillance audits:
This reduces repeat findings and builds auditor confidence during follow-up reviews.
We follow all IATF and ISO 17021 guidelines, maintaining transparency, objectivity, and strict confidentiality in every engagement.
We believe in transparency and honesty. These are our core values which drives our organization. Your organization benefit comes before ours as that is the way we can succeed. With decades of combined experience and proven track record in breaking the ice, we are competent in our field. We do business as partners, so we share everything.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
1. How does Kadmar support certifying bodies (CBs)?
We maintain impartiality and help CBs by preparing their clients for the audit before their certification or surveillance audits.
We perform pre-assessment and readiness audits minimize nonconformities.
2. Can Kadmar work directly with OEM supplier development teams?
Yes. We partner with OEM to build their supply chain and develop a standardize QMS for all the suppliers.
3. Does Kadmar perform certification audits?
Yes. We have partnered with CB to perform certification audit, but we maintain follow the impartiality rules as required by the standard.
4. How can OEMs and CBs partner with Kadmar Consultants?
OEMs and certifying bodies can collaborate with Kadmar through structured programs for supplier audits, training, and development.
Contact Us Today
To explore partnership opportunities, visit Kadmar Consultants or contact us for a customized collaboration proposal.
Partner with Kadmar Consultants today — your trusted ally for supplier quality, audit readiness, and IATF 16949 compliance across North America.
Being efficient and effective in the current industrial era is not an option anymore but a mandatory requirement. ISO 9001:2015 & IATF 16949 gives the competitive advantage to the organizations around the world to build a strong Quality Management System and achieve customer satisfaction. In Canada, manufacturing and automotive organizations are working hard to achieve operational excellence. Operational excellence has become non-negotiable requirement that can be achieved through high quality standard. From OEM to the end tier suppliers either in Alberta, Saskatchewan or Ontario- All of them have comply with customer, regulatory and all other stakeholders’ requirement for long-term success.
To build an effective Quality Management System, the right ISO 9001:2015 & IATF 16949 Consultant plays a vital role. Kadmar Consultants provides services that helps organizations in achieving operational excellence through the correct implementation of the Quality Management System. We help organizations design, build, and maintain Quality Management Systems (QMS) that meets the international standards and help organizations to reduce Cost of Poor Quality and increase Original Equipment Efficiency (OEE). We just don’t help organizations in getting certification but help in building a robust system that will sustain its presence for decades.
ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949 are both Quality Management System standard and are complementary to one another. Both being international standard built on the same Quality Management Principle serves different purpose.
ISO 9001:2015
ISO 9001:2015 is the international Quality Management System standard that is applicable to all the manufacturing and service organizations. It is developed on Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle and emphasizes on risk-based thinking, and process improvement. Customer satisfaction is the key requirement of the standard.
Organizations that are certified to ISO 9001 demonstrate their unique ability to consistently deliver products and services that meet customer and regulatory requirements.
IATF 16949
IATF 16949 is the automotive standard developed by International Automotive Task Force. Developed on the same principles of Quality Management System but has automotive industry requirements integrated into it such as Customer Specific Requirements, Production Part Approval Process (PPAP), Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP), Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Control Plans, Traceability, Supplier Management and warranty control
IATF 16949 certification is one of the mandatory requirements for Automotive suppliers.
ISO 9001:2015 & IATF 16949 standards Implementation needs the right expertise and skillset. If the system is implemented in correct and effective manner it can set a benchmark for operational excellence and open the door for new businesses. Otherwise, it can just serve the purpose of paper requirement Kadmar consultant in Canada helps organizations around the clock to ensure the Quality Management System is effectively implemented. We have strong understanding of the Canadian industry requirements, OEM customer requirements, and regulatory frameworks.
The vary first step we take in designing a Quality Management System is to analyze the gap in the current system as per the standard requirement. Step 2 is to develop the system based on the standard framework. The system developed should be reflected in the documents for both ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 such as Quality Manuals containing Quality Scope and Policy, Process Flow Diagrams and Maps, Work Instructions, Corrective Action Reports, Internal Audit Procedures etc. the 3rd important step is training. If employees are not aware of their responsibilities, roles and ownership in the system, the system will not be followed and effective regardless of if it got implemented well. Employee Training and Internal Audits validates the effectiveness of the Quality Management System. We provide workshops on quality tools (like 8D, FMEA, and Control Plans) and conduct internal audits to verify compliance before the official audit.
We work closely with certification bodies in Canada to ensure you are fully prepared for your Stage 1 and Stage 2 certification audits — minimizing non-conformities and ensuring faster approval.
A good consultants carry all the below skillsets.
We serve all the regions; Ontario: Toronto, London, Windsor, Cambridge, and Hamilton — the heart of the automotive industry. Quebec: Montreal and Laval for manufacturing and precision engineering firms. Alberta & British Columbia: Oil, gas, and energy suppliers expanding into ISO certification.
Kadmar Consultants specialize in simplifying certification. Our experts provide:
Take the First Step Today
If you’re preparing for IATF 16949 certification, don’t go in blind. We build businesses and help them grow. We make sure Quality Management System is embedded in the organization that helps operational excellence. IATF 16949 and ISO 9001:2015 is not just a paper document but a living standard.