ISO 2015 in Plain English: Planning

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.

In addition to this clause, the terms ‘risk’ and ‘opportunity’ are made throughout the standard. The path to Risk Based Thinking has three paths:

  1. Actions taken to identify, analyze and address any potential risk:
    • Quoting
    • Up front engineering
    • pFMEAs
  2. Quality objectives and planning to achieve them:
    • Requirements for objective planning had been very loose but are now greatly tightened up
    • An objective should include a description of who is responsible, what is the target, when is it planned to be achieved
    • Progress must be monitored
    • Objectives must be set for relevant processesPlanning
  3. Planning of changes:
    • A very robust Change Management process is required
    • Revisions, Processes, Technology

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