Certification to the ISO 9001 standard involves the following phases. Training/Familiarization with ISO 9001 Gap analysis of the QMS QMS development / updation ISO 9001/QMS awareness programs for employees Deployment of QMS Internal Audits Management Review First stage audit Certification audit Key members from the organization are at first trained on ISO 9001. Then, these […]
Read More →The organization conforming to ISO 9001 certification shall ensure that nonconforming outputs in its processes, its products or services are controlled. The nonconformity may arise because of not meeting customer requirements, regulatory or statutory requirements or your organizations own requirements. The organization should have an effective Quality Control system for early detection of nonconformities. Raw […]
Read More →ISO 9001 Quality Management System requires the organization to use factual information as a basis for decision making. The clause 9.1 monitoring, measurement, analysis and evaluation in ISO 9001 caters to this requirement. Monitoring means observing the status of a system, process or activity. Measurementis the process to determine a value. For […]
Read More →Principles of ISO 9001 Quality Management Principles are a set of fundamental beliefs, norms, rules and values that are accepted as a basis or foundation to guide an organization’s performance. The new ISO 9001:2015 standard is based on seven Quality Management Principles. ISO 9001 Consultants should guide their clients about the importance and benefits of […]
Read More →Definition of Context Context of the organization means the business or organizational environment of the organization. As you can see from the figure from ISO 9001standard below, Context is shown to be outside the processes and functions of the organization and is seen as affecting the organization. To put it simply Context means the issues […]
Read More →What is the ISO 9001 Quality Management System? Quite simply, it’s a technical certification that lets your business’s customers, vendors, shareholders, and others know that your organization always meets the highest standards that are outlined by this globally recognized measure. ISO 9001 Quality Management System is the universal, widely accepted standard that guarantees processes that […]
Read More →Why do companies hire outside consultants rather than have their own in-house employees for certain tasks? There are a lot of good reasons. For example, for some jobs, your existing workforce may lack the expertise or experience required to get the job done within the time frame you have in mind for a specific task. […]
Read More →The International Organisation for Standardisation released the first ISO 9001 Quality Management System more than 30 years ago. Since then, more than 1 million companies around the world have adopted its principles and achieved certification to its requirements. The version of the ISO 9001 Quality Management System used today provides businesses with a complete blueprint […]
Read More →The updated ISO 9001 standard was released during September 2015. The new standard has had an significant change, which the ISO 9001 standard adapting the HLS which makes integrating more than one standard easier. The other changes include adapting a risk based process approach and the need to think about security of Information. ISO 9001:2015 […]
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