ISO 9001:2000 Implementation Project: finished procedures

[judy simidi]

Hi,

thanks to all the comments posted. am particularly interested in what Boscoeee had to say. actually i was referring to the main six procedures required by the standard. you mentioned another eighteen and i lost track. am being advised by a consultant who has implemented the standard for their company. according to him all i needed were these six (document-record control, non-confoming products, internal audit, corrective & preventive action) which cover much of what we do in our company. Much of the documentation process comes in however in documenting work instructions and other secondary procedures like selection of vendors, purchasing...of which i would like to represent by use of flow charts. would that be okay?

thanks

judy

 

[howste]

Boscoee is correct. There are six places in the standard that require documented procedures. These and any other documents you decide you need can be in any format that you choose. I like flow charts - they're great as long as they work for your people and have the information they need for your system.

 

[gooofii]

hi ....I am doing a Quality Manual for my company for the BSI ISO9001/2000.
The BSI wants the ALL the Manual in a form of flow charts..cam this make sense, and is there any advise about 'Flow charting' the QM

Thank you

 

[Stijloor]

hi ....I am doing a Quality Manual for my company for the BSI ISO9001/2000.
The BSI wants the ALL the Manual in a form of flow charts..cam this make sense, and is there any advise about 'Flow charting' the QM

Thank you

Hello! Welcome to The Cove Forums.

BSI can not require your Quality Manual to be developed using only Flow Charts.

Look here for possible examples and relevant information.

Stijloor.

 

[CliffK]

hi ....I am doing a Quality Manual for my company for the BSI ISO9001/2000.
The BSI wants the ALL the Manual in a form of flow charts..cam this make sense, and is there any advise about 'Flow charting' the QM

Thank you

When and how did BSI inform you of this?

Pre-audit? Document review? Other?

 

[Coury Ferguson]

Stijloor is correct. No matter who the Registrar is, they can not tell you what to do. There job to ensure that you meet/satisfy the requirements of the standard.

I do however, agree that Flow-Charts are simpler to understand.


BSI any comments here?

 

[gooofii]

Thank you Stijloor for the Link you sent..it is helpfull..
well, its not all the manual to be flowcharts, but the Policy part wil stay as txt format, where as the Procedures and Work Instruction should be in Flowcharts. I started using MSVisio, but to be ohnwest the company departments and procedures are simple so its only 13 or 15 pages of Flowcharts can describe the job which i am afraid it will appear ass a 'poor' QM...isnt it...

gazzar

 

[gooofii]

yea Cliffk

we already got the Approval. However, they want us to change the QM format to be much simple as the curent one is old and pretty much 'General'

 

[judy simidi]

Hi everyone,

i found the replies on flow charts helpful. am now using deployment flow charts to write down the remaining procedures. our processes are quite few though involving a lot of activity. true to have the policy bit in text form and then the actual procedure as a flow chart.

thanks guys!!

 

[gooofii]

hello every body...thank you all guys for the replies...
I'm doing the QM now for the Design control department which will be again in 'Floaw chart format', so can any one give me some tips regarding general procedures or what to be consider more in the Design department....

Thank you alot