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ISO 9001:2015 Clause 9 – Don’t let measurements undermine performance

All you need to know..., ISO 2015 Tips, Performance Evaluation, Transition to ISO 9001:2015 / By Jenna Gensic

A quick look confirms that there are no potholes in this part of the Transition Highway to 9001:2015. Generally speaking, the Monitoring, Measurement and Analysis requirements are VERY similar to the 2008 version. However, poorly designed measurements can actually cause suboptimal performance. In the work done by John Seddon of Vanguard Consulting in the UK […]

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Smooth Operator

2 Comments / ISO 2015 Tips, Operation, Transition to ISO 9001:2015 / By Jenna Gensic

ISO 9001:2015 Clause 8 – Operation In a nutshell, this section covers how we meet customer (and interested parties) needs and expectations. And remember to assess expectations within your own context and the context of your interested parties. In the PDCA fashion, this section starts with a requirement to ‘…meet requirements for provision of products and

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If you fail to plan…

ISO 2015 Tips, Planning, Transition to ISO 9001:2015 / By Jenna Gensic

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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Take me to your Leader!

1 Comment / All you need to know..., ISO 2015 Tips, Leadership, Transition to ISO 9001:2015 / By Jenna Gensic

Take me to your leader! ISO 9001:2015 Clause 5 – Leadership – the ‘make it or break it’ component of any management system. Leadership is one of the 8 Management Principles we’ve used for years as the guiding lights for our systems. They are now described in section 0.2 – Quality Management Principles and have

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9001:2015 Overview – ‘Big picture’

Introduction, ISO 2015 Tips, Planning, Transition to ISO 9001:2015 / By Jenna Gensic

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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ISO 9001:2015 is HERE!!!

Introduction, ISO 2015 Tips, Transition to ISO 9001:2015 / By Jenna Gensic

September 23rd, 2015 ISO 9001 was released. Here we go… Let’s start with the Introduction 0.1 General There are some upgrades from 2008, but, in a nutshell, you’re on pretty even ground here. There are no quantum leaps from ISO 9001:2008, but there are some new concepts in this section. First of all, you’ll notice the use

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