I was in Seattle last week and all everyone was talking about was the 8,000 jobs Boeing just announced would be cut this year. In July of 2011 I published an article titled “The Beginning of the End for American Manufacturing? about the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) trying to block Boeing from building a […]
Requirement: Clause 7 is called Support, which is basically all of the resources required to support the organization’s primary business. This weeks final review is on Organizational knowledge, Competence, Awareness and Communication. 7.1.6 Organizational knowledge requires the organization to determine the knowledge necessary for the operation of its processes and to achieve conformity of products and […]
Requirement: Clause 7 is called Support, which is basically all of the resources required to support the organization’s primary business. This weeks review is on Monitoring and Measurement. 7.1.5 Monitoring and measuring resources (Calibration in Plain English) 7.1.5.1 General requires the organization to determine and provide the resources needed to ensure valid and reliable results when […]
Clause 7 is called Support, which is basically all of the resources required to support the organization’s primary business. Resources are broken down into a number of areas: General, People, Infrastructure, Environment, Monitoring/Measurement, Organizational Knowledge and Communication. General refers to the resources needed for the establishment, implementation, maintenance and continual improvement of the quality management […]
Dan Beaulieu interviews Steve Williams of The Right Approach Consulting (Watch the interview here http://realtimewith.com/rtwboot/show.php?id=91&vid=3970 ) on REALTIME with IPC to talk about what companies need to change to comply with the just released 2015 version and why companies need to start NOW! Contact me for my free ISO 9001:2015 Readiness Checklist and perform a quick […]
Inspection Is Evil A wise man once said “Inspection is Evil”; …actually it was me and I didn’t say it just once, I say it every chance I get. Inspection is a non value-add activity and companies tend to use it to hide many sins. Traditionally, leaders of American industry have had a one-size fits […]
Don’t miss THE PCB industry social networking event of the year! Steve Williams interviews Tara Dunn and Judy Warner on their brainchild, what it’s about, and how you can attend or sponsor one of this year’s three regional events. Watch the interview here… http://realtimewith.com/rtwboot/show.php?id=91&vid=3988
Planning has always been required and buried in other areas, but is now a stand-alone requirement. The basic function of Planning is simply to meet customer requirements through the processes you have put in place to manufacture your product. This is where the standard really makes a major change by focusing on Risk Based Thinking. […]
How can you meet the requirements? As discussed last week, the good news is that the new requirements are very similar to the current version, so major changes are not required in the way top management must be involved in the QMS. The below list are ways to demonstrate that top management has a commitment […]
Requirement A major change in ISO 2015 is more focus on the company supporting the quality system. “Top management shall ensure that customer requirements are determined and are met with the aim of enhancing customer satisfaction” (7.2.1 and 8.2.1). Management Commitment has always been a major part of ISO, but the 2015 version places more […]
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