The Clause Companion (Automotive Edition)

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.

Written to the published ISO 9001:2026. Part II describes the requirements as they stand in the 2026 edition, with a shaded box in every clause family showing what changed from 2015. IATF 16949:2016 remains the current automotive standard; the book says what the IATF has announced about its second edition and keeps every automotive requirement in its own marked section.

Inside:

• Updated for the published ISO 9001:2026 — every clause family shows what changed from 2015, plus a phased transition checklist set against the transition dates
• IATF 16949 requirements marked throughout — 46 automotive sections in the same six-block format: stop-ship authority, CSRs, control plans, MSA, the internal audit types, 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 (also free as a printable A4 scorecard at qlause.app/book), 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.

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