DQS would like to congratulate PT Seiwa Indonesia for their successful achievement on ISO/TS 16949 certification for the scope of "Design and Manufacturing of Power Transmission Belts (V-Ribbed Belts, Raw Edge Belts) with Product & Process Design, Sales and Purchasing Support at Mitsuboshi Belting Ltd (Kobe Head Office, Japan) and Sales and Warehouse Support at MBL Antriebstechnik Deutschland GmbH, Germany".

The ISO/TS 16949 is a quality standard for supplier of product to the automotive industry. It specified the quality system that must be applied to the design, development and production of all automotive components.

The goal of this standard is to promote the development of Quality Management System that provides for continual improvement, emphasizing on defect prevention (pro-active measures) and the continual reduction of variation and waste in the supply chain by incorporation the basic ISO 9001:2000 requirements, the additional requirements of the automotive industry and also related Customer Specific Requirements (CSRs). Only organization supplying to the automotive supply chain are eligible to be certified to this standard.