Annotation ISO 9001 is known throughout the world as the gold standard for quality process improvement, but lately quality assurances experts are discovering the power of CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), the latest process improvement model to hit the scene. This book explores how these two models can be used together to improve process quality by quantum leaps.
Don't reinvent the wheel when applying for your ISO 9001 registration or updating to the new 2000 standards. ISO 9001:2000 Document Development Compliance Manual: A Complete Guide and CD-ROM shows you how to develop and implement a documented quality management system based on ISO 9000 series standards. It supplies ready to use ISO 9001:2000 Templa
"The book describes the design rules required to document, implement, and demonstrate quality management system effectiveness in compliance with the latest version of the ISO 9000 International Standard. This systematic and engineering approach simplifies the many complexities in maintaining compliance with ISO standards. This hands-on guide is packed with tips and insights the author has garnered from personally designing quality management systems that integrate organizational strategy with quality management. Moreover, the book helps professionals create meaningful documentation and a user-friendly, informative quality manual that together form the core of an effective and responsive quality management system."--Jacket.
Review of previous edition: "This will be of particular importance to companies that act as suppliers to larger multinational organisations, whose original specifications may not translate readily into local practice". Quality Today Small and medium-sized companies face many challenges today; not least that their larger institutional and multinational customers make demands that are difficult to meet for an organisation with limited resources. One such demand is ISO 9000 compliance. Fully revised and updated, ISO 9001: 2000 for Small Businesses explains the new requirements of ISO 9001: 2000 and helps businesses draw up a quality plan that will allow them to meet the challenges of the market place. For engineers and managers in small and medium sized companies, and also in service industries and user groups, the text will serve as a essential guide to the most important new developments in quality assurance.
Since the publication of the first edition of this book in 2000 the revised ISO 9001 standard has been implemented and is being used widely. While the basic premise of the original book is still sound, the reality of auditing the new standard has shown up various areas which require refinement - this new edition addresses that need. It remains a pragmatic guide, covering all aspects of auditing, including certification assessment, supplier investigation and internal audit, enabling auditors to appreciate the approaches adopted by those working in related areas. With its detailed analysis of the requirements of ISO 9001:2000, this book will also be of interest to all those involved in implementing certified quality management systems, as well as the auditors who are required to examine those systems. A down-to-earth approach is taken throughout The Quality Audit for ISO 9001:2000, avoiding the impractical and nit-picking methods which have so often characterized quality management audits, making it an invaluable source of realistic advice. It demonstrates how to produce real benefits from an audit programme rather than simply guaranteeing compliance to a documented system. Everyone who sees audits as a useful tool for business improvement should read this book!
In order to meet the recommendations, requirements and specifications of ISO 9001:2000, organisations must undertake an audit of their own quality procedures and those of their suppliers. Likewise, when supplying ISO 9001:2000 accredited customers, suppliers must be prepared to undergo a similar audit. Revised, updated and expanded, ISO 9001:2000 Audit Procedures describes the methods for completing management reviews and quality audits, and outlines the experiences of working with 9001:2000 since its launch in 2000. It also includes essential new material on process models, generic pocesses, the requirements for mandatory documented procedures, and detailed coverage of auditors questionnaires.
ISO 9001:2000: A start-to-finish implementation guide to the newly updated ISO standard from two of the world's leading quality practitioners! -- The realist's guide to ISO 9001:2000 -- internal audits, choosing registrars, ensuring customer focus, measuring results, and much more. -- Dell's Asset Recovery Business (ARB): A start-to-finish ISO 9001 case study, from the insiders who made it happen! -- Moving ISO 9001 from "cost center" to "profit center"! To maintain their ISO 9001 certifications, organizations worldwide must upgrade to the brand-new ISO 9001:2000 standard. In this book, two of the world's leading quality practitioners present the most realistic, business-focused guide to ISO 9001:2000 implementation. The book's focus isn't on mere "conformance: " it shows companies how ISO 9001:2000 can support their key strategic initiatives -- and how to move ISO 9001:2000 from "cost center" to "profit center." Tom Taormina and Keith Brewer cover every aspect of ISO 9001:2000, including the new process model; the latest and most effective internal auditing techniques; how to select a registrar; how to reflect the new standard's requirements for customer focus and management involvement; and much more. In a start-to-finish ISO 9001 case study, the authors show how Dell's Asset Recovery Business (ARB) has gone beyond mere "compliance, " leveraging ISO 9001:2000 standards to build a fully integrated business management system that uses continuous improvement models to drive operational excellence and profitability.
This "hands on" book provides practical information on how to cost effectively set up an ISO 9001: 2000 compliant Quality Management System. The new ISO 9000:2000 family is an all-encompassing series of standards that lay down requirements for incorporating the management of quality into the design, manufacture and delivery of products, services and software. To achieve its main objectives, ISO 9001:2000 requires the manufacturer, or supplier, to possess a fully auditable Quality Management System consisting of Quality Policies, Quality Processes, Quality Procedures and Work Instructions. It is this Quality Management System that will provide the auditable proof that the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 have been and are still being met. ISO 9001:2000 In Brief explains the meaning of ISO 9000, its history, current status, requirements and changes being made to it. It also covers how ISO 9001 will affect businesses, and how they can easily and cost-effectively satisfy their customers' requirements for quality control and quality assurance.
