Laura Halleck
Starting to get Involved
I recently (3 weeks ago) joined a small (< 50 people) start up company which is still in the development stage of designing a product that will be used on passenger vehicles. I have been tasked with getting us ISO 9001 certified within 18 months, so I'm working toward the 2015 revision. We are planning to build the relevant requirements of TS 16949 into our QMS, but will not be able to get TS certified since we will be outsourcing our manufacturing (no manufacturing on site other than development prototypes).
The CEO comes from the high tech / start up world and is not very familiar with quality, a QMS, or ISO 9001, but has committed to supporting this initiative as he understands it is necessary for us to get business from the automotive OEMs.
I attempted to schedule time with him as part of my gap analysis activity so that I could have him walk me through the process of strategic planning and provision of resources. He has asked me to send him the relevant requirements from the standard and maybe some examples of what I'm looking for so he can prepare for our discussion.
Does anyone have any examples of the type of information I should be sharing with him or any other suggestions for how I can proceed in this area?
Thanks in advance for your help.
The CEO comes from the high tech / start up world and is not very familiar with quality, a QMS, or ISO 9001, but has committed to supporting this initiative as he understands it is necessary for us to get business from the automotive OEMs.
I attempted to schedule time with him as part of my gap analysis activity so that I could have him walk me through the process of strategic planning and provision of resources. He has asked me to send him the relevant requirements from the standard and maybe some examples of what I'm looking for so he can prepare for our discussion.
Does anyone have any examples of the type of information I should be sharing with him or any other suggestions for how I can proceed in this area?
Thanks in advance for your help.