ISO 9001:2000 - Quality Management Systems Standard | Forum profile

Yes, I agree. The simplest solution that is right for quality, of course. Often times, the easy solution for conformity and the best solution for quality are two different things. The best solution is the often simplest in the long run. It's the solutions that merely appear to be simple in the short run that we need to watch out for. All we can do is provide considerations regarding the consequences of this choice, hoping the right choice...

Quote: Originally Posted by jamesscs the company i work for has many registrations (14) to the iso 9001:2008 standard. as lead auditor and the main contact with our accreditation organisation i have been told to cancel future CAV for one of the registrations as a cost saving. What are the thoughts of the cove members? I have no idea what a CAV is or what you eat it with. Please explain the abbreviation. Regarding the 14 registration, is that...

Aha! One of the 'downsides' of a piece-meal approach of having 'units' registered, rather than looking at the organization as a whole, I suspect. If these units are autonomous, then you'll have to decide the impact on winning work. If not, then you'll have to evaluate the impact of their processes on the overall performance of the qms, including the other units. If work flows through the decertified business unit,...

Just to be clear, would the conscious be that it is time for them to re-evaluate all of their ISO 9001:2008 certifications?

If you have a copy of ISO 9001: 2008, look at clause 5.5.2.

Quote: Originally Posted by AndyN I see. So, Jim (and Dr.) if the customer supplied gauges were identified by the gauge control process and right in a Control Plan, even to the point of specifically highlighting 'customer owned gauging etc. would this still rate an OFI? If in selecting a number of operators, they responded to interview questions that they indeed knew that these were customer owned gauges and they took good care of them...

Quote: Originally Posted by Big Jim Perhaps I see the TC 176 ruling differently than you do. It tells me that records are not required for maintenance. The exception would be when an organization chooses to keep records. The requirement for keeping records for maintenance does not come from element 6.3. And it doesn't come from 4.2.4 either. "Records established to provide evidence of conformity . . ." If records are...

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Quote: Originally Posted by anandbchavan Dear All, Please Explain me that assembly department is part of production department OR Quality Department Or It is a saperate department and who is the responsible for that department? ANAND I guess you are asking this from some of your internal interdepartmental conflicts. It depends how you have mapped your process flow and deligated the authority and responsibility. As an example., In our case we...

Quote: Originally Posted by DrM2u For my own use, MSWord is nowhere near 'decent' but I also have to consider my clients' resources and abilities. Me too. My comments stand, and have already taken this into account. Better by far to use PowerPoint, and then paste the result into Word (but as a graphic) than to use Word itself.