SMMT Publications
SMMT has a range of publications available for purchase to help support members’ businesses, covering automotive regulation, quality standards and IATF certification
The 11th edition of SMMT’s popular Trailer Towing Guidance and the Law Guide helps businesses and individuals to stay on the right side of the law when towing anything weighing up to 3,500kg.
Available since the late 1950s, the regularly updated publication has sold more than 300,000 copies in the last 10 years alone, catering for those towing anything from a trailer or caravan to a horse box or boat.
The booklet has a proven track record of success with hundreds of thousands of people using it to stay legal in their business and leisure towing activities. It includes an easy to follow guide to ensure drivers hold the correct licences as well as crucial ‘need to know’ subjects from towing in Europe and the various types of coupling, to essential safety points such as the use of breakaway cables and correct tyre pressures. It also contains useful information on buying and insuring a trailer and the carriage of passengers.
Price – £6.00
The following IATF publications are now available to purchase from SMMT Industry Forum.
IATF 16949: 2016 – 1st edition
The goal of this Automotive QMS standard is the development of a quality management system that provides for continual improvement, emphasising defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain.
This Automotive QMS Standard cannot be considered a stand-alone QMS Standard but has to be comprehended as a supplement to and used in conjunction with ISO 9001:2015.
The current ISO/TS 16949 Technical Specification is auditable until 30 September 2017. Organizations currently certified to the previous version and still current ISO9001:2008 have a maximum (3) years to transition to the new version ISO9001:2015 i.e. 15th September 2018.
Price – £35.00
IATF 16949 Rules for Achieving IATF Recognition – 5th edition
The Rules for Achieving IATF Recognition include the criteria for Certification Body recognition, audit process and auditor qualification. The document is intended for IATF recognised Certification Bodies auditing to the IATF 16949 3rd Party Audit Process.
Please note: effective from 1st January 2017
Format: English / A5 / Laminated / Spiral bound
Price – £35.00
IATF Auditor Guide for IATF 16949 – 4th edition
Auditor Guide 4th edition – released May 2019
The IATF Auditor Guide represents a consolidation of automotive audit best practice and the IATF automotive process approach to auditing, through the complete audit cycle. The Guide is structured to provide both knowledge and application competency criteria against each stage of the audit process.
The guide is intended to help organizations identify and develop the competencies of their auditors.
Format: English / A5 / Laminated / Spiral bound
Price – £35.00
Implementing Standardised Work – a Guide
This SMMT publication has been developed specifically to support organisations’ understanding of the implementation of Standardised Work as required within the automotive industry’s international quality management standard IATF 16949:2016.
The document provides clear descriptions of various principles of Lean manufacturing and examples of relevant tools in practical application.
The guide has been developed with SMMT Industry Forum and is based on twenty years’ experience of the development, implementation, monitoring and improvement of Standardised Work throughout the automotive supply chain.
Anyone purchasing this guide will also be given the opportunity to download for free copies of various templates that are pictured and referred to in detail throughout the guide. These tools for observing, recording and calculating aspects of operational performance, standard procedures etc. offer more practical implementation support as well as underpinning the methods explained.
Format: English / A5 / Laminated / Spiral bound
Price – £15.00
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