The Clause Companion (Automotive Edition) (Early Edition)

EARLY EDITION — buy now, get the ISO 9001:2026-verified update free. This copy is based on the final-draft text of the 2026 revision. The week the published standard has been checked line by line against these pages, every early buyer is emailed the verified update automatically. Nothing to claim, nothing to re-buy.

You already own a management operating system. It came with your certificate. This book teaches you to run it.

Most certified plants run two systems: the real one that makes the product, and the audit one that comes down off the shelf twice a year. The gap between them is where every expensive quality failure was quietly born.

The Clause Companion is a field guide to closing that gap — and it lives a double life: readable cover to cover, raidable during audit week, mirror-numbered to the standard.

Inside:

• Ready for ISO 9001:2026 — every clause family carries a box showing what the new edition changes, plus a phased transition checklist
• IATF 16949 requirements marked throughout — 46 automotive sections in the same six-block format: stop-ship authority, CSRs, control plans, MSA, the three audit layers, error-proofing, warranty and NTF
• Every clause gets the same six honest treatments — from what auditors look for to where companies stumble
• A thirty-minute self-assessment, a document starter set, and a starting-from-zero route to a first certificate
• Honest about the standard's warts — including the one word clause 6 leans on and never defines

Written for plant managers, quality managers and the people who run the floor — certified or getting there. Not for consultants.

278 pages · PDF (6×9 print layout) + EPUB (reflowable) · Published by Qlause · qlause.app