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The way I've always looked at it is that the standard states that your program should be planned based on importance, risk and results of previous audits. If I have an area that had many finding during the past year chances are that I will audit them more frequently next year or if there were no findings for the past several audits than I might audit them less. If the schedule always stays the same then the registrar/auditor will say these are not being taken into consideration during planning.
My thoughts today are to focus those areas that are the most important to our business.
1. Customer Escapes - Perform Product Audit on all customer escapes to ensure root cause and corrective action have been completed and validated.
2. Internal System Escapes - Audit the manufacturing and quality processes used to manufacture our parts when internal QPPM reaches trigger point.
3. QMS Audit - Continue to perform Internal Audits of the QMS on an annual basis.
Any comments about my approach would be helpful I am sure.
Thanks,