The Production Control Plan as Strategic Tool for Audits

This paper attempts to demonstrate the strategic necessity of creating and implementing a production control planControl plan in the expanding global competitivenessCompetitiveness of the automobile industry to improve quality and efficiencyEfficiency. Using managementManagement tools relevant to the organizationOrganizations's needs in today's competitive environment has become a strategic concern for businessesBusiness (Goicoechea Itziar in Quality Management in the Automotive Industry, pp. 619–632, 2012) It has been established that a control planControl plan is a mandatory requirement of the Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) or the International Automotive Task Force (IATF)/16949 standard and a strategic tool for performing auditsAudit in the production line. If we talk about either auditAudit: process layer auditAudit, process auditAudit, or system auditAudit, the control planControl plan is an essential document for starting, documenting, and performing an auditAudit. The correct elements of the control planControl plan and its application can be the key to any successful result. The requirements for creating a control planControl plan, the various aspects of a control planControl plan, and how to use a control planControl plan are analyzed.