VDA 6.3 Process Audit Assistant

What it addresses

VDA 6.3 process audits can be hard to standardize because clause interpretation, on-site questioning, scoring, and report formatting often depend on individual experience. This skill organizes VDA 6.3:2023 P1-P7 questions, scoring rules, best practices, and glossaries into queryable references, and uses scripts to calculate EG and audit grade, reducing manual lookup and calculation errors.

How it works

It first distinguishes between auditors and auditees:

• Auditor workflow: select audit elements and scope, generate checklists, guide on-site questions, record findings, and flag starred questions or downgrading risks. It calls scoring-calculator.py for EG and A/B/C level, then report-generator.py for Markdown/HTML reports.
• Auditee workflow: self-assess elements such as P6, prepare evidence like personnel qualifications and equipment maintenance records, explain clauses in plain language, provide scoring examples, and support corrective action and training.

Scope and cautions

It fits automotive process audit preparation, on-site auditing, reporting, self-assessment, and clause learning. It relies on built-in documents and Python scripts; scoring should be calculated through the script. Reports should include question lists, score summaries, downgrade explanations, and nonconformity details. Incomplete audit scope, scoring inputs, or evidence can affect the result.