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ISO 9001 has been the quality management standard, with almost a million businesses certified around the world. It has been through many revisions, in 1994, 2000, and 2008, but the 2015 revision has an added element to consider—risk.
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ISO international standards help to ensure that products and services are safe, reliable, and of good quality. ISO standards identify strategic tools to reduce costs, minimize waste and errors, and increase productivity. The adoption of ISO standards can also level the playing field a bit for developing countries by facilitating free and fair global trade, which opens opportunities in new markets.
“This revision deserves particular attention, because it’s not only a change to the requirements themselves, it’s a change to the structure of the standard, with a new focus on risk management,” says Terry Weiner, senior consultant, California Manufacturing Technology Consulting, a Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) affiliate.
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Nice ad, poor fact-checking
Far be it from me to interrupt a perfectly good advertisement for the MEP, but a few facts are deserving here, for clarification.
ISO 9001:2015 will not "focus on risk management" since it specifically differentiates between the notion of "risk-based thinking" (which it is based on) and "risk management." In fact, the standard in its current form specifically says "formal risk management" is NOT required
Second, AS9100 does not merely "focus on product-related risk," but includes risk management requirements for business development / contract consideration and vendor evaluation. It is a far more holistic risk-based standard than even the new 9001 draft.
Third, there is no guarantee that the IAQG will adopt the High Level Structure of ISO 9001:2015 for the future revision of AS9100, as they have considered specifically NOT doing so, and the Annex SL document does allow for deviations.
One would hope that the MEP with their "more than 800" clients, would know these basic facts.
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Risk is an integral part of planning
Generally people make planning as what needs to be done and when and how. But, in practicality, the risk components which will create bottlenecks in the execution process are to be taken into consideration. This will facilitate an effective system. Understand the risk, impact on the process (including quality management) and the final product, and make countermeasures to eliminate or overcome risks.
It may not be possible to create an ideal situation in any process, but continuous improvement depending upon the risks creep into, or emerge into a process could be thought of and needed course correction will make the process optimised.
Plan for the unexpected. Expect potential unexpected ones. Equip the process.
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