Audits are used for a variety of reasons, including assessing compliance with standards and regulations, adherence to requirements and specifications, evaluating process and system performance, evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of the quality management system; etc. A remote internal audit is usually done partially or completely off-site employing…
Lecture summary: In this part of ISO 9001 – Improvement means, in a way, finding the parameters that affect the realization of goals and submitting them to change. The challenge is to identify the specific processes that have the most effect on the conformity of goods to customer…
Lecture summary: A management review is a management tool in the hands of the top management for evaluating the QMS. It is one of the methods dictated by the ISO 9001 standard for monitoring the QMS and evaluating its performances and effectiveness. The QMS has to be reviewed at…
Lecture summary: An internal audit is an effective tool that is used for self-assessment of your organization and to determine the extent to which it fulfills the QMS requirements. The audit findings will show you the effectiveness of your QMS and identify nonconformities and opportunities for improvement. ISO 9001…
Lecture summary: ISO 9001 Standard considers this activity as one of the tools that promote the improvement of the QMS. It aims to reflect the quantitative and qualitative performance of your QMS. In this clause, it’s expected from you to plan and decide on how you…
Lecture summary: Treating and managing nonconformities is one of the basic objectives of the ISO 9001 Standard. Nonconforming outputs are the outputs of processes that don’t meet a needed requirement or an expectation of one of the interested parties of the organization that are specified, implied,…
Lecture summary: Release of the product or services is about verification that the product and service requirements have been met according to customer requirements. Release activities aim to ensure that the realization of the product or the service has been expectedly completed and that the product or…
Lecture summary: Control of Production and service provision Standard ISO 9001 wants to say that you need to set up control by applying and enforcing a set of principles and conditions that will lead the realization process. Control will allow you to monitor various parameters during the product realization…
Lecture summary: There are various reasons your company would use the services of suppliers – either it lacks the resources to do the work itself or decided that it would be better to allow an external provider to produce the products or provide it with…
Lecture summary: On every activity that is part of the Design and Development (D&D), you should look at it as a process. Why? Because, the point is that through the process you make sure that the product will be according to expectations, in other words, set specifications.…
