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Helloand happy new year.
Someone could suggest me where is the limit between Research and Design ( 7.3).
In our organization we have 100 people involved in Research and there are problem in trying to "chain" them in following the Standard since the very beginiing of the "product idea"( also not feasible and efficient for the research ). I'm trying to set the Research fase since the product is in prototype phase ( in this phase many times there are not any clear customer inputs because the customers don't know what they want to have, they are trying to define the product with our Research labs and many many different in configuration prototypes are tested). Till this stage we are using the "Stange and Gate" management of development approach.
When the prototype has a sufficient definition or an initial customer technical request, the Research project is transferred to the industrialization process and managed by the 7.3 of ISO 9001.
I would like to share my experiences and have the opnion of some of you working in organizations where the Research aspect is predominant on the production. Maybe better if someone working in Corporations having the HQ focussed on R&D and the production facilities spreaded in other countries or far from the HQ.
Thank in advance for the help
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Someone could suggest me where is the limit between Research and Design ( 7.3).
In our organization we have 100 people involved in Research and there are problem in trying to "chain" them in following the Standard since the very beginiing of the "product idea"( also not feasible and efficient for the research ). I'm trying to set the Research fase since the product is in prototype phase ( in this phase many times there are not any clear customer inputs because the customers don't know what they want to have, they are trying to define the product with our Research labs and many many different in configuration prototypes are tested). Till this stage we are using the "Stange and Gate" management of development approach.
When the prototype has a sufficient definition or an initial customer technical request, the Research project is transferred to the industrialization process and managed by the 7.3 of ISO 9001.
I would like to share my experiences and have the opnion of some of you working in organizations where the Research aspect is predominant on the production. Maybe better if someone working in Corporations having the HQ focussed on R&D and the production facilities spreaded in other countries or far from the HQ.
Thank in advance for the help
. There are 100 scientists working in our Head Quarter for studying the most strange and unusual alloys for future product ( I hope) applications. 
. Fundamentally, the problem resides with the fact that some people erroneously believe that ISO 9001 is an all encompassing business management standard, which is not. Some people believe ISO 9001 touches and addresses all processes, functions, areas, etc. of an organization, which it does not.
agreed