That was the first time since I started my 9-year old career, I realized what it takes to be Powerless. It was the second day of the three days of ISO/TS audit. In the morning hours, before the Auditors stepped in, a communication mail popped up in the...

External Audit is a hide-and-seek type conversation between two professionals whose Organization have a unique Business relation between them in which case, unusually the Customer is screwed, nailed or sometimes even brutally hammered.
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Such is the appetite towards FMEA (AIAG type) in our Organization that one guy desperately wanted to conduct FMEA for a Business Process. I failed in my attempt to convince him of adapting a much simpler brainstorming session to identify risk...