Your comments have been helpful and I appreciate the feedback very much. I have reached the point where it is "hard to see the forest for the trees!"
The company started reformating the QMS Manual over a canned template before I began my work. The template was to AS9100B. Since then ISO 9001:2008 and AS9100C were published and I was to use the template they had begun using and update it with ISO 9001:2008, ISO 13485:2003 and AS9100C. Therefore, I guess it could contain a mixture of AS9100 B and C versions. I will review that issue.
Non-conforming products (unless accepted by customer concession)are scrapped and cannot be re-worked due to the nature of the materials (extruded polymers).
We do use organizational charts to visualize the interrelation of all personnel who manage, perform and verify work affecting quality. The actual org chart is referenced in the QMS as are many other more detailed documented ("How to") procedures.
The manual is an umbrella policy with reference to the detailed procedures (meat) that have been established for the QMS. Kind of an index using the standards as the basis for the manual. The detailed procedure document number assignments follow the numerical system found in the standards for simplicity and cross-reference
The employees, customers and auditors find this very helpful to navigate and it makes my life less stressful too!
In my opinion... interactions and interfaces of the QMS processes we have established are described well with Figure 2 (I imagine most systems are designed in this manner). Do you have other suggestions or examples of what else I could use? This particular requirement (4.2.2c) is somewhat confusing to us
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