Re: Low cost Quality Management System
Hi Rameshdamani,
Very simple, I'm sure you have already done most of it by now,
Identify your product/service, market, and market's requirement for that product/service.
Define your Quality.
Have objectives / goals (time bound) to achieve.
Plan your organisation's activities (start to finish) to achieve, fulfil above requirements and goals / objectives. Document this plan including forms/formats for records you need to keep. This should be done using the 5 Ws and an H, Who, What, Where, Why, When and How.
Determine resources needed to carry out these activities / processes
Determine what should be the end product / output at the end of each activity and how you will measure and compare it with the product / service requirements.
Get a copy of the standard, ISO9001:2000 (If you can, go for others in the 9000 series too, ISO9000, 9004, 19011 etc)
Go through the standard, word by word, understanding its intent.
Map your above plan against the requirements stated in the standard,
You will find gaps, plug these gaps by incorporating the absent requirement in your above plan.
Implement / Start your operations as per plan.
Periodically review if your work is being carried out as per plan.
Make changes for improvement or where you think it is not working as per plan.
Attending a sensitisation / awareness / implementation seminar / course on ISO9000 series will help.
OR
Employ people who have been part of such an implementation program, or are from similar industry that is certified and are knowledgeable about ISO9000 series.
OR
Hire a consultant who will help your organisation become ISO9001 compliant.
Identify a certification body to suit your requirement including your budgetory requirement among others.
Apply and invite the CB to audit your organisation and certify it ISO9001 compliant.
If you can do it yourself, you will save on the consultant's fee, you will only pay the Certification Body's fee - there is a wide variation in that, you may chose.
If you hire a consultant, you pay consultant's fee also (again there are variations)
Anyways, the cost should pay itself up in due course of time.
A QMS is as easy to implement as your own operations. It is nothing different than your own operations.
Overheads in an efficient and effective QMS are almost unheard of. Any cost incurred by way of survillance audits / consultation etc is only to benefit the organisation in terms of cost savings / increased revenue.
The Quality Management System will be as efficient as you want it and this is directly proportional to your commitment as top management.
I am a little confused when you say 'full blown QMS'.