My two cents worth
While reading this thread I have come to the conclusion that third party auditors have not done the homework needed to understand the standrd like they should.
Our company has recently had two facilities registered to ISO9001:2000 and re-certified to QS9000, in combination. Now that was confusing!
The auditor went to our Reidsville plant first and almost walked out when he found out that they were still auditing to the procedures. The auditor called me (I coordinated these activites for the plants) then I called our corporate Quality Manager, he called the auditor, who called his office, before this was cleared up.
The auditor said that the audits need to be "Processed based". The Corporate Quality Manager said that the Level II procedures are the processes.
Go figure.
We had less trouble when he came to our plant because of a process audit checksheet that I used that I found on the COVE.
Thanks you COVE!
It's going to be a long and bumpy road until all of the confusion is cleared up.
now we have to certify to TS next year.
Mike W
