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ISO 9001 in a Nutshell

Requirements for Quality Management Systems - a simple overview of the ISO 9001: 2000 Standard

Overall Requirements for the System - clause 4

4.1 Establish a quality system: Develop your quality management system. Implement your quality management system. Improve your quality management system.

4.2 Document the quality management system.

4.2.1 Create documents including a quality policy, objectives, manual, procedures and records
4.2.2 Have a quality manual
4.2.3 Control documents
4.2.4 Create and maintain records of the system.

Requirements for Management - part 5

5.1 Demonstrate commitment to the quality management system
Communicate the importance of quality.
Establish a quality policy and objectives.
Conduct management reviews.
Make sure resources are available.

5.2 Focus on customers
Identify customer requirements.  Aim to enhance customer satisfaction.

5.3 Set a quality policy
Define a suitable quality policy.
Commit to meeting requirements and continual improvement.
Communicate and manage the quality policy.

5.4 Plan for quality

5.4.1 Set measurable objectives.
5.4.2 Perform planning appropriate to achieve aims and objectives.

5.5 Define & communicate 'who does what'

5.5.1 Identify responsibilities and authorities
5.5.2 Include a manager for the system
5.5.3 Make sure internal communications are effective.

5.6 Review the system (management review)

5.6.1 Review your system at planned intervals
5.6.2 Include in review customer feedback, performance including nonconformity, results of audits, status of actions, changes and improvements
5.6.3 Make sure outputs from review include any decisions on improvements.

Resource Requirements - part 6

6.1 Identify and provide the necessary resources

6.2 Make sure people are competent for their work
6.2.1 Provide people who are competent, aware and trained.
6.2.2 Have means to maintain competency of personnel.

6.3 Provide infrastructure
Identify what is needed, provide and maintain it.

6.4 Provide the necessary work environment
Identify and manage the work environment needed for activities.

Requirements for Products or Services ("Realization') - part 7

7.1 Do planning for products or services
Plan and develop the processes you need for your products/services.

7.2 Have effective processes regarding customers

7.2.1 Identify requirements that apply to your products/services
7.2.2 Before committing to supply, ensure you can meet the requirements
7.2.3 Have effective arrangements to communicate with customers.

7.3 Have effective processes for designing & developing products/services

7.3.1 Plan for design and development.
7.3.2 Define what inputs are needed to design/create/develop
7.3.3 Produce or develop the 'design'
7.3.4 Do reviews at suitable points
7.3.5 Make sure the result meets requirements (verification)
7.3.6 Validate where practicable.
7.3.7 Manage any changes to design/development.

7.4 Control purchasing of goods, materials or services, including outsourcing.

7.4.1 Specify what is required. Assess & monitor suppliers.
7.4.2 Describe what is to be purchased adequately.
7.4.3 Make sure what is purchased/outsourced meets requirements.

7.5 Control operations

7.5.1 Have effective ways of controlling what you do (product / service provision)
7.5.2 Validate production/service provision where required.
7.5.3 Identify and track products/services where appropriate
7.5.4 Take care of any property supplied by customers
7.5.5 Look after products/components during storage/delivery, etc.

7.6 Control devices used for measuring and monitoring
Identify requirements for monitoring and measuring. 
If you need to use devices, select and use suitable ones. Make sure the results are accurate (calibration, protection, validation).

Requirements for Analysis and Improvement - part 8

8.1 Review, analyse and improve performance
Plan and implement suitable processes to do this.

8.2 Monitor and measure to establish whether planned results are achieved

8.2.1 Monitor customer satisfaction.
8.2.2 Plan and implement a program of internal audit
8.2.3 Monitor and measure processes appropriately
8.2.4 Monitor and measure products/services at suitable points.
Release final product/service only after requirements have been met.

8.3 Control nonconformity of product/service
Identify and control nonconformity with suitable methods, including a procedure.

8.4 Analyse information from the system
Define the information needed to show your system is working and to improve.
Collect and analyse that information.

8.5 Improve continually.

8.5.1 Improve your system.
8.5.2 Have a systematic approach to fix nonconformity and stop it recurring.
8.5.3 Have a systematic approach to prevent potential nonconformity from happening.

Note: the numbers correspond to the clause numbers of the Standard. They start at #4 because the requirements themselves are in sections 4 to 8 of the Standard.

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