IAC - International Automotive Components

Continuous Improvement, or “kaizen,” is part of our culture at IAC. One of the great things about continuous improvement is that it empowers all of us to make lasting, real changes that help our co-workers, our company and ultimately, our customers.

Our Saltillo, Mexico, facility embodies this philosophy wholeheartedly. We reinforce and promote continuous improvement by recognizing great employee recommendations through our “Ideas Program.” Employees submit ideas that have a positive impact on safety, cost, moral, quality and productivity. Anybody can submit these and we go out of our way to recognize these contributions.

Earlier this year, we celebrated 13 winners and their ideas at an Ideas Program Recognition Event for both our staff and production personnel. We want to reinforce creative thinking, problem solving and help everyone recognize that individual initiative can make a big difference.

We congratulate our 13 winners and those submitting great ideas everywhere.

IAC’s CEO, Kevin Baird, joined employees for a barbecue lunch held at our Southfield Office where Southfield and Troy Michigan employees were in attendance. During the celebration, he shared his appreciation for the team and reinforced IAC’s commitment to work-life balance by encouraging employees to prioritize spending time with friends and family this summer.

Gatherings are a great opportunity for employees to come together and celebrate as a team. IAC is dedicated to creating an environment where we can thrive both professionally and personally.

IAC is proud to announce that it has obtained the Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange certification for the remainder of its manufacturing facilities worldwide from the German Association of the Automotive Industry. As we communicated last year, IAC Group successfully passed the TISAX (Trusted Information Security Assessment Exchange) certification at 15 manufacturing facilities in Europe and South Africa.

TISAX certification is a standard for assessing and exchanging information security within the automotive industry.

The certification confirmed that IAC Group’s information technology and security measures comply with defined security levels developed by German OEMs and the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA).

This is a win for IAC as it gives OEMs a significant measure of confidence that sensitive data such as future vehicle program details, supply chain information, data and prototypes are handled with the utmost care using recognized encryption and other technologies.

“We started the year with several TISAX certifications at our facilities and can now say that all of our facilities meet or exceed these certification requirements,” said James Lewis, Senior Information Security Compliance Manager. “Once again, our IT department, collaborating with other key stakeholders throughout IAC, made quick and thorough work to bring us up to these standards for ensuring the security of sensitive information. We’ll need to revisit the certification process in three years.”

Congratulations Team IAC for working as one team to achieve our TISAX certification throughout our facilities.