Audits and Assessment

An assessment (either Quality or Functional Safety) should give confidence in the product to industrial End-Users, and Automotive OEM and Tier-1.

exida puts at the disposal of its customers its own experience, to successfully support every single assessment. Support on behalf of exida is not limited to the pre-assessment phase. exida will accompany the customer during the formal assessment phase upon request, backing his decisions and offering the pertinent explanations. The assessment shows the compliance of the product with the product requirements and standards, and of the conformity of the process with the standards requirements. The assessment results are contained in the Assessment Report (public in case of Certification) and in the Assessment Recommendations Report (confidential).

An Assessment Report usually contains the following main elements:

An Assessment Recommendations Report contains all the actions suggested for improvement; these actions are submitted for consideration and are not compulsory, because a recommendation always makes reference to acceptable deficiencies so, by definition, it is not a reason strong enough to fail at an assessment. Nevertheless, it is a good practice to implement all the identified improvements considering the suggested actions.