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Quality Management throughout the value-added chain

The basis for mutual success

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After intensive discussions between automotive manufacturers and suppliers in the VDA (German Association of the Automotive Industry) managing board, an agreement for the safeguarding of joint quality in the German automotive industry was developed in 2005. Through a stronger process-orientation and synchronisation of the supply chain, the German automotive manufacturers and suppliers were able to recapture their quality leadership.

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  1. Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

    Alfons Weißbrich (Executive of Group Quality Management)

  2. Audi, Ingolstadt, Germany

    Bernhard Fuchsbauer (Head of Central Quality-Technology and Quality Assurance, Purchasing)

  3. ZF Sachs AG, Schweinfurt, Germany

    Heinz-Josef Heinrichs (Vice President)

  4. Oberursel, Germany

    Heinz-Günter Plegniere (Managing Director of the VDA Quality Management Centre)

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  1. Alfons Weißbrich
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Weißbrich, A., Fuchsbauer, B., Heinrichs, HJ. et al. Quality Management throughout the value-added chain. ATZ Prod Worldw 1, 4–9 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03224152

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