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Oct
01

Continual improvement in the quality management In ISO 9001

Continual improvement in the quality management system and its processes In ISO 9001 The standard requires the organization to continually improve the effectiveness of the quality management system in accordance with the requirements of ISO 9001 and to implement action necessary to achieve planned results andcontinual improvement of the identified processes. ISO 9000 defines continual improvement [...]

Oct
27

How To Keep ISO 9001 System?

How To Keep ISO 9001 System? The dreaded “program-of-the-month” syndrome: Here today, with much sound and fury—and, after a slow, embarrassing fade-away—gone tomorrow. Your ISO 9001 system won’t fade away as long as top management remains committed to it. Top management will remain committed to it as long as they see that it is returning [...]

Oct
27

ISO 9001 Standards DVD

ISO 9001 Standards DVD The major reasons that company leadership or management decides to seek ISO 9000 certification are to gain continued or increased business and to maintain effective operations. A company can maintain a relationship with customers, as well as get increased business through complying to the ISO 900 standards or becoming certified. This comes [...]

Sep
26

Preparing ISO 9001 Quality Manual

Preparing ISO 9001 Quality Manual The standard requires a quality manual to be established and maintained that includes the scope of the quality management system, the documented procedures or reference to them and a description of the sequence and interaction of processes included in the quality management system. ISO 9001 defines a quality manual as a document specifying [...]

Sep
02

Records Required by ISO 9001 Standard

Records Required by ISO 9001 Standard ISO 9000 requires that records be kept of critical operations. Record keeping is the fourth tier of required documentation in ISO 9000, following the Quality Policy Manual, Procedures, and Work Instructions. Questions you may have include: •What is a record? •What are the required records? •What is the reason for [...]

Sep
02

ESTABLISHING THE INITIAL STATE OF THE QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

The implementation of an ISO 9001 conformant system must recognize that it is but a step in a long-term development of a continually improving QMS. Unfortunately, it is often the case that ISO 9001 is taken as a means to an end, where the implementation of a QMS is not the primary objective, rather certification is. As [...]