The Automotive Quality Institute GmbH (AQI) is affiliated with the German automotive association VDA.

As a limited liability company, the AQI is financially independent and thus free to pursue both applied and pure research projects at its own discretion. Its association with the VDA and its Quality Management Center QMC provides an expansive network of experts in the automotive industry.

Ideals and Values

For us, quality management means creating real added value for our customers and for the end customers of the automotive industry. We focus on developing necessary and meaningful measures to provide quality products and services to the automotive industry's consumers. Quality standards are not an end in themselves – they need to serve the purpose of improving and maintaining product quality and so must be instituted rationally and proportionately.

The products of the automotive industry are more than just vehicles to us. We regard the automotive industry as the industry of mobility, with all the challenging new aspects it implies. Our ambition is to question conventions and find new approaches and solutions. It is important to us that a dialog take place – with scientific development furnishing ideas and the automotive industry delivering practical implementations.