Acronym KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid

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Greg P

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Steve,
Could you let me know what is the "KISS" principle? I am not familiar with that term. I am also tasked with implementing ISO, and from where I sit I have a HUGE undertaking. My company wants to have ISO implemented and knows there will be big changes over the long run, but they also want to see short term results. What do you suggest?
 
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Steve McQuality

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The KISS Principle

Steve,
Could you let me know what is the "KISS" principle? I am not familiar with that term. I am also tasked with implementing ISO, and from where I sit I have a HUGE undertaking. My company wants to have ISO implemented and knows there will be big changes over the long run, but they also want to see short term results. What do you suggest?
:topic: I'm sure the forum moderator may want to move this discussion to an appropriate board, but...

The "KISS" principle was something an old college professor mentioned and it stuck. It's not real flattering, but makes a point: K I S S - "Keep It Simple Stupid". If you get past the final "S", it's true. Keeping things less complex is the better way to go.

To your other question - When I was with the company where we implemented ISO from scratch, we went through the standard and looked at what we were already accomplishing. Our biggest hole was in supplier certification and monitoring and, believe it not, calibration records. If you have any kind of management system currently in place (i.e. Quality Manual) and your business is doing fairly well, you're probably already meeting a good portion of the standard. This is a general statement, but I've found it true for the most part. I'd review the current system against the standard and show all the good things you're already doing, then begin work on beefing up the rest.

I don't know if this really helps, but I'm sure the other Cover's out there will offer suggestions as well.

-Steve
 

Marc

Hunkered Down for the Duration with a Mask on...
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Re: KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

Posts split off and moved to the Definitions, Acronyms, Abbreviations and Interpretations forum.
 

Steve McQuality

Quality Engineer
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Re: KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

Posts split off and moved to the Definitions, Acronyms, Abbreviations and Interpretations forum.
Thanks Marc! I knew we were wondering WAY off topic for a "Howdy-doo" discussion forum, but I didn't want to leave Paul hanging...:notme:

-Steve
 
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mikoyan

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The Kiss principle is where you have your employees were lots of makeup and dress in black leather. Generally you designate the leader to be the one with the large tongue.....Uh...

As they said, KISS stands for Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Silly if you're feeling generous). There is no need to make your procedures complicated. The idea with ISO is to make a system that is in effect transparent because it is mostly stuff that you should be doing anyway.
 

Wes Bucey

Quite Involved in Discussions
#7
I adopted a "politically correct" definition for my public seminars a "few" years back -
Keep It Short & Simple

This goes along well with another frequent term in my bag of tricks: Occam's Razor
 
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Grizz1345

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Greg,
My suggestion for implementing ISO at your company is for you to take a well deserved and long vacation before producing results.:D
 
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