posted 25 October 2000 07:26 AM               

I see the standard broken into 4 distinct areas and it is very easy to remember them this way;

Section 1. Managementâs direct involvement; 4.1 and 4.2;
Considering a company setting up a quality (documented) system; It is senior management that must make the decision and take responsibility and the logical first thing they will do is decide their policy (4/1/1). Then they will consider what people should be involved (4.1.2.1) and what resources they need (4.1.2.2) - with the people theyâll include a Management representative (4.1.2.3) and, lastly, senior management remember that someone will have to review performance - they decide to do it themselves (4.1.3).
With everyone together and the objectives set (policy), the next thing is to put together the documented (quality) system (4.2.1)consisting of two parts - procedures first (4.2.2), of course and then quality planning (4.2.3).

Section 2; Getting down to business - dealing with the customer and the purchasing responsibilities;
We canât do anything without a contract. (4.3)
And, if the contract is for a product we need to design, then we have to see to that. (4.4)
The output of design is documents and we have to control these and also our procedures and plans. (4.5) and changes of same (4.5.3).
Now we are going to build something so we need to purchase material (4.6.1), evaluate subcontractors (4.6.2) and give them the information about what we want to buy (4.6.3)
But if we are building with someone elseâs material, then we have ways of looking after that (4.7)

Section 3. We are into the manufacturing (or business) area; It starts with controlling the flow of product (4.8) and the process (4.9), then inspection and test of what we build 4.10, which brings us to the need for control of test equipment (4.11) and indication of test status (4.12).
This leads to some rejects so they have to be controlled (4.13)
and we need to take some corrective action as a result (4.14)
and move the good and the bad product out (4.15)

Section 4. Reviewing and tidying up; Having contracted for a job and finally delivered the product, we now make sure our records are in place (4.16) and review our performance (4.17) before getting on with the next job. We probably find we need some extra training (4.18) and we may even get a call for some servicing (4.19) (whatever that means - I never figured this out - some people think it means repairing field returns but I think it means visiting your customer and maintaining or repairing equipment)
Oh, yes, Statistical Techniques! We forgot them, of course, so weâll tag them on at the end. (4.20)
rgds, John C

posted 21 November 2000 08:46 PM               

Read, Absorb, Understand, and only answer questions after you review the standards.

ASD...

posted 22 November 2000 07:53 PM               

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Originally posted by Steven Truchon:

I don't try to remember, that requires use of valuable memory space....

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posted 14 February 2001 12:49 AM               

The same with the Standard. It is easy to remember though if you think about it in an orderly manner.

For example, The way it is structured would be how the parts of the system should be strung together in order - at least it works that way for me.

I am very comfortable with the new Standard already, and know it pretty much off hand. I achieved this by reading not only ISO9001, but 9004 and HB 90.0 (which helped me relate new sections to the old)

After that, I completed an adequacy audit on our current system to the new Standard.

If you don't want to do that, then you could tape you own voice reading each clause and play the tape each night before you go to bed.