I've been a member of this forum for over a year and this is probably my first post. However, I've always lurked around the Cove when I needed help, which I always find. This time I’ve read a lot of posts trying to find an answer to the questions I’m about to ask, maybe I should have looked deeper, however, I’m going to be brave and admit that I am having trouble finding the exact answer, as I am fairly new to the world of Quality and also the new Quality Assurance Manager of my company. Any comments of your part will be welcomed. Without further delay, here is the deal:
I work for a rapidly expanding company. We are currently ISO 9001:2000 registered, we have well over a dozen plants under the same registration (and more plants are being added). Now, our last external audit was done in October 2009; this means that this upcoming October we are going to be audited as per the updated 9001:2008 standard. The way we manage our documentation (Including the QA Manual) is as follows: a digital copy of every controlled document is kept in a server which is accessible from all the plants. The plants may or may not print a copy which, once printed, has a "reference only" watermark. The questions that I have are:
1) Can I update all documentation right now, changing from 9001:2000 to 9001:2008 and make it available to the plants through the server?
2) I intend to remove all ISO 9001:2000 from the server well before we get audited and registered to the new standard; do you think I may run into trouble with my external auditor (or any other body) by doing so?
Thanks for all the inputs and comments.
I work for a rapidly expanding company. We are currently ISO 9001:2000 registered, we have well over a dozen plants under the same registration (and more plants are being added). Now, our last external audit was done in October 2009; this means that this upcoming October we are going to be audited as per the updated 9001:2008 standard. The way we manage our documentation (Including the QA Manual) is as follows: a digital copy of every controlled document is kept in a server which is accessible from all the plants. The plants may or may not print a copy which, once printed, has a "reference only" watermark. The questions that I have are:
1) Can I update all documentation right now, changing from 9001:2000 to 9001:2008 and make it available to the plants through the server?
2) I intend to remove all ISO 9001:2000 from the server well before we get audited and registered to the new standard; do you think I may run into trouble with my external auditor (or any other body) by doing so?
Thanks for all the inputs and comments.