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Is engineering a process and should it have its own process turtle?
Can you expand more on what "engineering" means in your world?Is engineering a process and should it have its own process turtle?
Can you expand more on what "engineering" means in your world?
But, in general, yes, it can be considered as such and you could do a process map for it. Depending on your orgs maturity, it could be beneficial.
By definition, a process is any activity or set of activities that transform inputs to outputs. So your process map(turtle) could be high level for "engineering" and then the individual processes that make up "engineering" could have their own.
Can you expand more on what "engineering" means in your world?
But, in general, yes, it can be considered as such and you could do a process map for it. Depending on your orgs maturity, it could be beneficial.
By definition, a process is any activity or set of activities that transform inputs to outputs. So your process map(turtle) could be high level for "engineering" and then the individual processes that make up "engineering" could have their own.
Hello Malasuerte
Engineering as in designing parts to meet final customer drawing, we are forging and machining shop. Our engineers also design tools (die and punch) for the presses.
None of our IATF auditors have questioned why engineering is not listed or considered as a process, this was brought up by our internal auditor.
I disagree. If your company designs parts, tooling or manufacturing processes to meet customer requirements, there is value in mapping out your design process. Not only is your design process "beneficial", design is part of the way you create value for your customers. and by looking at the big picture QMS you strive to monitor and continuously improve your design process to be most efficient and effective. The IATF auditor may not have questioned a missing design process document because many fabrication shops only machine-to-print and exclude design from their QMS. If the outside auditor started with what you gave him, it may not have been obvious what was missing.