TheDarkTow
On Holiday
Hi!
Quick background... we're a small machine shop where people wear many different hats during the day. Due to workload we do not have the time to audit our entire system ourselves so we've decided to hire a company to perform our internal audits. Audit company will come 4x per year and cover our entire QMS within that time frame.
Here's where I'm stuck. How do you really schedule for only 4 audits per year? Follow a basic PDCA-ish cycle?
Audit 1: Plan (Clauses 4-7) procedures, forms, matrix lists, machine maintenance, HR, training records, calibration
Audit 2: Do (Clauses 7-8) maybe sales and purchasing
Audit 3: Do (Clauses 7-8) production planning / production / inspection / shipping / nonconforming outputs
Audit 4: Check and Act (9-10) audits, customer satisfaction, management review, corrective action
That doesn't seem wholly feasible, and somehow Audit 4 feels fairly light in content.
Our main processes are:
Sales/Quoting (note: we are 8.3 design exempt)
Purchasing
Production Planning
Production / Inspection / Shipping
I have attached the original schedule that I inherited (our ISO coordinator quit without notice and I was voted the replacement). Each of those Process Descriptions was an individual audit.
Thank you all for the help. I have internal auditing experience and took the Lead Auditor course after being voted on the island, but this is my first time having to re-schedule like this.
Quick background... we're a small machine shop where people wear many different hats during the day. Due to workload we do not have the time to audit our entire system ourselves so we've decided to hire a company to perform our internal audits. Audit company will come 4x per year and cover our entire QMS within that time frame.
Here's where I'm stuck. How do you really schedule for only 4 audits per year? Follow a basic PDCA-ish cycle?
Audit 1: Plan (Clauses 4-7) procedures, forms, matrix lists, machine maintenance, HR, training records, calibration
Audit 2: Do (Clauses 7-8) maybe sales and purchasing
Audit 3: Do (Clauses 7-8) production planning / production / inspection / shipping / nonconforming outputs
Audit 4: Check and Act (9-10) audits, customer satisfaction, management review, corrective action
That doesn't seem wholly feasible, and somehow Audit 4 feels fairly light in content.
Our main processes are:
Sales/Quoting (note: we are 8.3 design exempt)
Purchasing
Production Planning
Production / Inspection / Shipping
I have attached the original schedule that I inherited (our ISO coordinator quit without notice and I was voted the replacement). Each of those Process Descriptions was an individual audit.
Thank you all for the help. I have internal auditing experience and took the Lead Auditor course after being voted on the island, but this is my first time having to re-schedule like this.