Every entry in the newsletter links to source material from one of the pages below. We do not summarise intermediaries or trade portals; we go to the organisations that actually issue the documents.
PKN Polish Committee for Standardization
Poland's national standards body, operating since 1924, based in Warsaw. It sets the direction of standardisation in Poland, publishes Polish Standards (PN), adopts European and international standards into the PN collection, and represents Poland in ISO and CEN.
What the Monitor takes from it: communications from the PKN President with lists of established and withdrawn Polish Standards, public enquiries and updates from the home page. A search tool shows PN published in the last sixty days.
www.pkn.pl/en · search for new and withdrawn PN · news and communications
ISO International Organization for Standardization
The international standards organisation based in Geneva, bringing together national standards bodies. It issues management and technical standards, among them ISO 9001 for quality management systems.
What the Monitor takes from it: new editions and revisions of standards relevant to quality, stages of standardisation work and material from the ISO newsroom. For selected standards, ISO offers feeds notifying of a change in the work stage.
www.iso.org · ISO newsroom · ISO 9001 standard record
IATF International Automotive Task Force
A group of vehicle manufacturers and their trade associations, responsible for the IATF 16949 standard for automotive quality management systems and for the certification rules. Oversight is provided by IATF Global Oversight.
What the Monitor takes from it: Sanctioned Interpretations (SIs) and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) for IATF 16949 and for the Rules, stakeholder communiques and changes in the certification rules.
www.iatfglobaloversight.org · communiques for certification bodies · sanctioned interpretations
VDA Verband der Automobilindustrie
The association of the German automotive industry. Its Quality Management Center (VDA QMC) issues quality publications: the VDA 6 series (including the VDA 6.3 process audit), the yellow, red and blue-gold volumes, and material shared with AIAG.
What the Monitor takes from it: new and revised VDA QMC publications, editions of the VDA 6 series and joint AIAG handbooks such as FMEA and SPC.
www.vda-qmc.de/en · VDA QMC publications · VDA QMC publications
AIAG Automotive Industry Action Group
The American automotive industry organisation. It issues the core quality manuals: APQP (advanced product quality planning), PPAP (production part approval), MSA (measurement systems analysis), SPC (statistical process control) and the FMEA handbook shared with VDA.
What the Monitor takes from it: new editions of the core manuals, communications and joint publications with VDA.
www.aiag.org · quality area and manuals
How we select information
We distinguish two kinds of source. The five continuously monitored sources are PKN, ISO, IATF, VDA and AIAG, described above: they define the scope of what we track each month. Supporting sources serve only to verify individual entries, for example the IAQG for aerospace standards or certification bodies’ pages for transition periods. We do not review them continuously and they do not replace the five primary sources.
The Monitor flags changes but does not replace the original documents. The newsletter states what changed and where to verify it; only the text of the standards and communications issued by the organisations above and by certification bodies is binding. Where a source is paid (such as buying a standard or a publication), the link points to the product page, not to copyrighted content.
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