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Subject: Recent audit
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:39:34 -0700
From: "D, John"
We recently had a pre-assessment audit for QS-9000. In reviewing our
procedures, Level II documents, the auditor objected to our use of the
words " as appropriate" and "shall" as copying directly from of the QS-9000
3rd edition manual. As an example in the procedure 4.4 Design Control was
the following statement:
The suppliers design activity should be qualified in the following skills as
appropriate:
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Quality Function Deployment
and so on.
The auditor felt that using this verbiage did not adequately tell the who,
what or where of the procedure.
The rest of the document he felt was well written.
The question is, did the auditor make the correct judgement on the validity
of that statement? If so, what would be a more appropriate way of wording
that phrase.
Thank you
John D.
Subject: Recent audit
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 15:39:34 -0700
From: "D, John"
We recently had a pre-assessment audit for QS-9000. In reviewing our
procedures, Level II documents, the auditor objected to our use of the
words " as appropriate" and "shall" as copying directly from of the QS-9000
3rd edition manual. As an example in the procedure 4.4 Design Control was
the following statement:
The suppliers design activity should be qualified in the following skills as
appropriate:
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Quality Function Deployment
and so on.
The auditor felt that using this verbiage did not adequately tell the who,
what or where of the procedure.
The rest of the document he felt was well written.
The question is, did the auditor make the correct judgement on the validity
of that statement? If so, what would be a more appropriate way of wording
that phrase.
Thank you
John D.