Abstract: As one of the core methods of the quality management system in the automotive industry, the process approach is an important tool for realizing the quality assurance of complex manufacturing systems with multi-sector, multi-process and multi-quality indicators. This paper first gives an overview of the quality management in the automotive industry, and then introduces the research status of the quality management system based on process approach in the industry, providing direction for the automotive industry in both research and practice of process-approach based quality management models.