Quality Standards

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Question of the month: Which international quality standard is applicable to organizations that operate within our food chain?

Another month is behind us. However, quality is a topic that is always in the forefront. Quality standards help you focus on your customers by aligning your operational processes to what the end user wants. And requirements for monitoring and measurements, inherent in most standards, allow you to make fact-based decisions while striving for continuous improvement.

Corrective and Preventive Actions

Simply put, Corrective Action is based on a nonconformance event that has happened in the past. Preventive Action is based on preventing a nonconformance event in the future. Both are similar procedurally, but with the focus as described. Together, Corrective and Preventive Actions—typically referred to as CAPA—are integral parts of a continuous improvement program.

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Quality Standard for the Aerospace Industry

This article provides a short background on the quality standard for the aerospace industry, where original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers have historically dealt with a large number of often conflicting standards and regulations. The number and complexity of these standards, as well as the fact that they often conflicted with one another, made for high costs to produce aerospace goods and did little, if anything, to address the issues of quality, safety, and reliability.

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ISO Quality Standards

More than 600,000 companies worldwide use ISO quality standards. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has released close to 16,000 standards ranging from electrical specifications to road signs and the weather. But there are a few standards that are far more commonly adopted than others. Among the common ones, ISO 9001 is more generic in nature applicable to a wide range of settings while other standards like ISO 2200 (food safety) address the requirements specific to particular industries.

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While all quality standards revolve around customer satisfaction, differences in industry requirements mean that different standards are needed to guide the quality initiatives of different industries. Conformance to a quality standard, by itself, does not mean quality. It only means that your organization is ready to deliver quality. Now it is up to you to continually improve and actually deliver quality.

New Manual: AS 9100 Aerospace

The newest addition to our long list of offerings will be the AS 9100 Aerospace Policies, Procedures and Forms. It will start shipping during the second week of May.

The AS 9100 Procedures Manual will help you create an AS 9100 Quality Management System regardless of where your company is located in the aerospace supply chain. It will include easily editable aviation quality procedures designed to address issues of quality, safety, and reliability.

On That Note

Answer to this month’s question:

ISO 22000:2005 is designed to provide a framework of internationally harmonized requirements for the global food industry. It allows every type of organization in the supply chain – from primary producers to food processors, to storage and transportation companies, to retail and food service outlets, and even makers of equipment used in food processing – to implement a Food Safety Management System, or FSMS.

ISO 22000 incorporates the principles of HACCP and addresses the requirements of many key standards (such as the BRC, IFS, and EU have developed) in a single source document.

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Chris
Bizmanualz, Inc

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