Association between CMMI-DEV 1.2 AND ISO/TS 16949

• Main Authors: Altamar Urbanetz de Araújo Albanez, Carla Cristina Amodio Estorilio
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2014-05-01
• Series: Revista Produção Online
• Subjects: Processo de Desenvolvimento de Produtos. Certificação da Qualidade. ISO/TS-16949. Maturidade de Processo. CMMI.
• Online Access: http://producaoonline.org.br/rpo/article/view/1483

The automotive sector is one of the most daring in terms of quality, requiring ISO/TS 16949 certification. Nevertheless, there are companies those lose their certification or develop only some improvements due to a lack of enough maturity to maintain it and gaps in continuous improvement guidelines. Whereas CMMI is one of the diagnostic methods of maturity, the aim of this work is to identify the feasibility of linking the ISO/TS 16949 with the CMMI-DEV 1.2. The method used consists in review PDPs, quality certification and process maturity and then associate these two models. The analysis concludes that a company certified by ISO/TS not necessarily even reaches the maturity level 2 in CMMI. Moreover, while the CMMI model shows those items not covered and demand their development, ISO/TS only encourages "continuous improvement" without a plan or diagnostics for the company operationally achieve it.