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My company recently had an external customer audit done, I received the audit findings report yesterday and was surprised to find that we received a nonconformance for "not having a process control and maintenance of External Standards used in the QMS to assure acceptable quality. IPC, ISO, ANSI etc."
The portion of ISO 9001:2008 that this finding is against is 4.2.3(f), "to ensure that documents of external origin determined by the organization to be necessary for the planning and operation of the quality management system are identified and their distribution controlled".
My understanding of this requirement is if we claim compliance to a given standard then we should have a copy of the latest specification on hand which we do. While we do use the IPC workmanships standards for the inspection of cable/wire/harness and soldered assemblies I don't see that we use them to plan or operate our QMS, we use ISO 9001:2008 for that. Which we do have the current revision of.
So - my question is - Am I misunderstanding the requirement of ISO 9001:2008, section 4.2.3(f)? All comments and replies are most welcome!!
~Cgaro
My company recently had an external customer audit done, I received the audit findings report yesterday and was surprised to find that we received a nonconformance for "not having a process control and maintenance of External Standards used in the QMS to assure acceptable quality. IPC, ISO, ANSI etc."
The portion of ISO 9001:2008 that this finding is against is 4.2.3(f), "to ensure that documents of external origin determined by the organization to be necessary for the planning and operation of the quality management system are identified and their distribution controlled".
My understanding of this requirement is if we claim compliance to a given standard then we should have a copy of the latest specification on hand which we do. While we do use the IPC workmanships standards for the inspection of cable/wire/harness and soldered assemblies I don't see that we use them to plan or operate our QMS, we use ISO 9001:2008 for that. Which we do have the current revision of.
So - my question is - Am I misunderstanding the requirement of ISO 9001:2008, section 4.2.3(f)? All comments and replies are most welcome!!
~Cgaro