Building Block #9 You need to be ready to trade off other values in favour of Quality There’s an anecdotal ‘constraint model’ in the world of Engineering: Quality – Price – Timing: pick any two. By staying focused on ‘errors are unacceptable’ (or at least have a rate of errors we can live with) we […]
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Risk! Clause 6 has a number of new requirements, but you’re already doing some of them. For example, if you have an estimating department, they are already practicing ‘risk management’. If you have project managers, they are following the path of a project and trying to anticipate what could go wrong. Letting Top Management in on
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ISO 9001:2015 Clause 6 – Planning This is by no means a new concept, but there are some new requirements. Deming introduced the Plan-Do-Check-Act mantra back in the 50s and explained that he based his work on Shewart’s ‘Plan-Do-Study-Act’ cycle. Believe it or not, Deming claims to have used the work of Francis Bacon (1620) as a
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Well I’ve had some terrific feedback from people wanting to learn about the new ISO 9001:2015 standard. It’s coming up very quickly, with the next draft due out at the end of this month. We anticipate that this next draft will be very close to final. Remember if you want to stop receiving these emails,
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I’ve been over these topics more times than I care to remember. This time around, I saw something in the latest version (ISO 9001:2015) of this Standard that hadn’t connected for me before. The introduction sections have connected the dots for me when it comes to PDCA, Risk-based thinking and the Process Approach. Risk-based thinking Risk-based
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