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Dear all,
I have joined my new company for 7 months and adopted a new job as a Quality System Engineer. Part of my job is to carry out auditing to different department in my company.
When I auditing the calibration system of 1 of my production departments, the department head requested to exempt the calibration system of the department from ISO scope. I was confused whether the department or company itself have the authority to exempt the calibration of production measuring instrument from quality system (we are ISO9001:2000 certified manufacturing company). The reason given was that the department head does not want to face any complication during ISO audit because they have too many process measuring instruments need to be calibrated/verified.
Beside, they also explained that their process measuring instruments do not directly affect the quality of finished product (which I believe is a lie). Another question here, How to know what instrument need to be calibrated/verified?
The calibration system for product measuring tool (maintained by Quality Department) are well complied. But process/production measuring tools calibration (maintained by production process owner) have not been practiced accordingly. Do I need to enforce the establishment of a calibration system which is well documented and no hiding? Any strong fact I can apply on this issue?
I have joined my new company for 7 months and adopted a new job as a Quality System Engineer. Part of my job is to carry out auditing to different department in my company.
When I auditing the calibration system of 1 of my production departments, the department head requested to exempt the calibration system of the department from ISO scope. I was confused whether the department or company itself have the authority to exempt the calibration of production measuring instrument from quality system (we are ISO9001:2000 certified manufacturing company). The reason given was that the department head does not want to face any complication during ISO audit because they have too many process measuring instruments need to be calibrated/verified.
Beside, they also explained that their process measuring instruments do not directly affect the quality of finished product (which I believe is a lie). Another question here, How to know what instrument need to be calibrated/verified?
The calibration system for product measuring tool (maintained by Quality Department) are well complied. But process/production measuring tools calibration (maintained by production process owner) have not been practiced accordingly. Do I need to enforce the establishment of a calibration system which is well documented and no hiding? Any strong fact I can apply on this issue?
