Kirchheim/Teck, Germany - People are the measure of all things. This applies not only when designing car seats, but also to the configuration of processes, information and workplaces. Following the introduction of the combined product audit system Q-FIT, RECARO Automotive Seating, the leading manufacturer of performance seats, has demonstrated convincing successes.
Made-To-Measure Quality
Integration of a product audit system
RECARO Automotive Seating can look back on a long tradition of creativity, innovation and technological excellence: The company presented the first sports car seat as long ago as 1965. RECARO also brought out the first retrofittable sports seat, the world‘s lightest vehicle seat, the most innovative commercial vehicle seat, and new sports seats in a modern composite design. RECARO car seats have to meet the toughest requirements – as original equipment or coveted special fittings for privately used vehicles, for frequent drivers in commercial vehicles, and even for professional motor sport drivers.
With their look, feel, acoustics and smell, they convey brand values such as quality, safety, durability, and also sportiness or comfort, depending on what the manufacturers want in their models. Car seats are a decisive factor in determining how comfortable the occupants feel even after sitting in them for hours on end. Furthermore, they have a safetyrelated protective function that can decide between life and death in an accident.
It is therefore no surprise that RECARO‘s DNA is oriented to integrating innovation, technical excellence and top-class ergonomic design not only into its products, but also into every facet of its corporate culture – which naturally also includes the production division, with its total of around 1,000 employees at six locations in Germany, Poland, Japan, Mexico and the United States.
QQuality:
First-class quality can only be guaranteed with the right testing, measurement and control methods and technologies: From the digital and automatic test planning and test equipment management and integration, the creation of test lists and the actual conducting of the tests, through to administering and processing the test results.
First-class quality can only be guaranteed with the right testing, measurement and control methods and technologies: From the digital and automatic test planning and test equipment management and integration, the creation of test lists and the actual conducting of the tests, through to administering and processing the test results.
FFailure: At Q-FIT, the modules for production monitoring, as well as the systems for the production control and real-time production monitoring, ensure the fastest possible reaction times when errors occur. The mobile KPI dashboards offer a particularly good overview with an immediate information flow for freely selectable user groups.
IIssue:
The correct handling of problems in the production includes a wide variety of tools such as the automated creation of issues from your own production, the management of customer complaints, tools for cause analysis, statistics and data summaries, as well as a quality alarm for recurring problems.
The correct handling of problems in the production includes a wide variety of tools such as the automated creation of issues from your own production, the management of customer complaints, tools for cause analysis, statistics and data summaries, as well as a quality alarm for recurring problems.
TTracing:
The documentation of all the production orders, production routes, process parameters and add-on parts, as well as the traceability of serial numbers and batches with the entire production background (route, quality data, process parameters and installed components), pursues one major goal: seamless traceability in the production process.
The documentation of all the production orders, production routes, process parameters and add-on parts, as well as the traceability of serial numbers and batches with the entire production background (route, quality data, process parameters and installed components), pursues one major goal: seamless traceability in the production process.
Quality:
First-class quality can only be guaranteed with the right testing, measurement and control methods and technologies: From the digital and automatic test planning and test equipment management and integration, the creation of test lists and the actual conducting of the tests, through to administering and processing the test results.
Failure:
At Q-FIT, the modules for production monitoring, as well as the systems for the production control and real-time production monitoring, ensure the fastest possible reaction times when errors occur. The mobile KPI dashboards offer a particularly good overview with an immediate information flow for freely selectable user groups.
Issue:
The correct handling of problems in the production includes a wide variety of tools such as the automated creation of issues from your own production, the management of customer complaints, tools for cause analysis, statistics and data summaries, as well as a quality alarm for recurring problems.
Tracing:
The documentation of all the production orders, production routes, process parameters and add-on parts, as well as the traceability of serial numbers and batches with the entire production background (route, quality data, process parameters and installed components), pursues one major goal: seamless traceability in the production process.
With the combined Q-FIT system developed especially to accommodate the needs of RECARO production lines, SCIIL AG has set new standards for the production processes for car seats in keeping with the RECARO philosophy. The task in the initial analysis phase was to determine the potential for optimising the previous solutions.
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