The core tools for
IATF 16949.
Total Lean Management gives automotive suppliers the IATF 16949 core tools in one connected system — APQP, PPAP, FMEA (AIAG-VDA), control plans, SPC, and MSA — plus supplier management and the full QMS around them. No more five disconnected spreadsheets before a customer audit. Two apps on one system, on your own server.
IATF 16949 · APQP · PPAP · FMEA · control plans · SPC
IATF 16949 core tools — connected.
The five automotive core tools shouldn’t live in five spreadsheets. TLM ties APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, and SPC/MSA into one system, so a change in one flows to the others — and your PPAP is always current.
APQP to PPAP — one connected system.
The core tools, together
APQP, PPAP, FMEA, control plans, SPC, and MSA in one connected system — change a characteristic once and it flows everywhere it should.
FMEA (AIAG-VDA)
Design and process FMEA with RPNs and actions, tied to the control plans and characteristics they drive — not a document that goes stale after launch.
Control plans that connect
Control plans link the characteristics that matter to the checks that hold them, and to the parts and processes they govern.
PPAP, assembled
Organize the PPAP elements and assemble the submission package — so a customer’s PPAP request is a click, not a two-week fire drill.
SPC & 8D
Statistical process control and 8D problem-solving feed your corrective actions and customer responses, with the trail an auditor expects.
Supplier management + AVL
Qualify suppliers, track scorecards and re-approval, and keep a live approved vendor list — so you only build from approved sources.
Every clause of IATF 16949 — one QMS.
The core tools are the automotive edge; the rest of IATF 16949 is the foundation. TLM covers both on one database, so an FMEA action becomes a CAPA, a CAPA becomes a change, and a change updates the control plan and the training.
Your system, your updates — on your own server.
Single-tenant means your automotive QMS is yours: a change reaches you only when you take it, and you control your environment — not a shared platform pushing updates to everyone at once.
Risk-based — test what changed
A Computer Software Assurance (CSA) approach: validate in proportion to risk, focused on what actually changed — not everything, every time.
Validation Katas
TLM proposes a concise, whole-workflow test for exactly what changed since your last validated version — you confirm it, run it, and sign.
Your own server
Every customer runs TLM single-tenant, on its own server — not comingled into one shared application — so a change reaches you only when you take it.
You control your updates
Once you’re validated, you decide when an update applies. Your validated state stays yours — not re-validated on a vendor’s release schedule.
TLM runs circles around one-size-fits-all competitors because our design follows one philosophy: the customer’s needs come first — not the vendor’s convenience.
Audit-ready, in plain English.
Ask Claude to review a controlled document against IATF 16949 or your standards, find the exact record an auditor asks for, or summarize what a change touches — grounded in your controlled documents, with a link to the source.
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Independently reviewed on the platforms quality teams actually use to choose their software.
Pass your next customer audit.
Bring the PPAP or the customer audit you’re dreading. In a 20-minute demo we’ll show the core tools connected — FMEA to control plan to PPAP — around your part.
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