Help with ISO 9001 Implementation in Oil Industry

[John Broomfield]

Yes they are TS/29001 certified. I was hired to bring the USA section into compliance with ISO 9001:2008. As this is a warehouse I am at we have no ties to their manufacturing but I have been given the job of maintaining their TS/29001 certification while bringing the American warehouse into ISO 9001:2008 compliance. My cup runneth over. Luckily here at the warehouse we only have 5 workers, myself included. That, along with the english/spanish language difference will keep me busy for a while. Right now I am just asking for guidance on just were to start with the ISO 9001:2008 standards. I come from a TS/16949 background and specialized in actual production standard and am versed in QS/9000, ISO 9001, and TS/16949, I need to finish the standards here before I jump over to Mexico.

Disturbedcrew,

I advise you not to preoccupy yourself with the standards. Focus instead on understanding how your facility works as a system within your company's larger system.

Your company will have documented the sequence and interaction of their processes as they are and you should find this in their quality manual.

From this you will be able to see how they determined their system's processes and you can do the same for the core process of your facility.

You will also be able to connect to your company's shared processes necessary to support your facility's core process along the lines previously described.

If you focus on the standards you could end up with a layer of documents from the standard. Imported documents are unwelcome because they fail to recognize the system that already is your facility.

You will find that already you and your colleagues are meeting most of the ISO 9001 requirements and by the time you have connected the shared support processes from your company you will have conformity with ISO 9001.

I stress this because your QS to TS experience may not have been process-based management but may have been document-based.

Good luck in developing your part of your company's process-based management system.

John

 

[PittsburghBrass]

In the petroleum/petrochemical industries, I can tell you that the American Petroleum Institute (API) offers dual certifications to ISO9001, ISO29001, along with the API spec known as Q1. (There is also an optional monogramming program which allows you to apply the API marking for products, if you so have the need).
Basically:
The API Q1 is identical to ISO29001 except for an additional Annex.
As the Q1 spec is based on ISO9001 with some additional requirements, should you choose API as your registrar, and they certify you to the Q1 standard, you in effect are also certified to 29001 and 9001.
If you are looking at 29001 in conjunction with 9001, this may be worth looking into for you. You can find all the details and such at API's website.
As I understand it, API is one of the few (if not the only) registrars who offer this dual certification. Good luck.

 

[Disturbedcrew]

Thanks for all the info and keep mit comming. I have a tough row to hoe as the Office manager, whos only experience was in records keeping at a local college, she has the massive experience of going thru all of 1 certification and considers herself an expert on all things ISO. I was putting keywords and definitions in a QMS manual that is short, 15 pages, and within the requirements but she insist on putting them on all the process sheets. I can't even finish the Process sheets until I have the required records we need to keep and she cant even tell me what the required information is so I can measure our KPI. I'm spinning my wheels bowing to a person that has very little experience but is a self proclaimed expert with all of 1 audit under her belt verses my 5 complete certification processes I have either designed, Ran or assisted in. It does not bode well for this little mammal but I keep going because I love the processes I can creare.