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ISO 9001 Quality Articles

Below you will find all articles and posts tagged with ISO 9001 Quality. These articles are either primarily about ISO 9001 Quality or about topics that are directly related to ISO 9001 Quality.

Do You Really Have to Write Procedures?

Not all processes require procedure writing.  There’s a lot of overhead associated with every business procedure you write.  Therefore, the more business procedures you write, the more procedures you have to edit, implement, train, audit, and

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Author: Chris Anderson    Published on: October 19th, 2009
Categories: Business Management & Operations, Process Management, Writing Policies and Procedures

Updated ISO 9001 Policies and Procedures Manual Simplifies Compliance with the Standard

Lean approach simplifies the ISO 9001:2008 quality procedures manual and clearly points out the required QMS procedures and records.

St. Louis, MO – June 18, 2009 – Bizmanualz, Inc., a business publications, training, and consulting company based in St. Louis, MO, today announced the release of the updated ISO 9001 Policies and Procedures Manual. The company has greatly improved its product by modeling its policies and procedures on the Deming (“Plan-Do-Check-Act”) Cycle.

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Author: Editor    Published on: June 18th, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Management, ISO Quality Standards, News and Announcements

Bizmanualz Uses Lean Approach to Earn ISO 9001:2008 Certification

Lean Visual Management System cuts through the paperwork typical of ISO 9001:2008 quality certifications.

St. Louis, MO (April 24, 2009) - Bizmanualz, Inc., a business strategy consulting and quality publishing company based in Clayton, Missouri, today announced the successful certification to ISO 9001:2008 for the design, development, realization, and delivery of its policy and procedure publications, training courses, and consulting services.  The certification demonstrates the Bizmanualz commitment to continually improve its ability to assist business owners achieve the growth they envision. 

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Author: Sandi Villarreal    Published on: April 24th, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Case Studies, ISO Quality Management, News and Announcements

ISO Implementation Phase III – Reviewing Clause 5 and 6 "shall" Statements

In this series of articles we are discussing implementing an ISO 9001 Quality Management System (QMS) in four distinct phases. By breaking the implementation into stages, it becomes more manageable and less overwhelming. In phase one, the general requirements described in Clause 4 of ISO 9001 QMS requirements are implemented, and in phase two the elements of continual improvement from Clause 8 are set in place and practiced.

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Author: Sandi Villarreal    Published on: March 16th, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Standards, Strategic Process Improvement

ISO Implementation Phase II – Continual Improvement

If your goal is ISO certification, the best method is to create a compliant QMS in stages.

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Author: Don Reed    Published on: March 9th, 2009
Categories: ISO Quality Standards

Internal Auditor Training Course Teaches Auditing Skills in an Interactive Setting

Interactive learning style helps students become familiar with using the ISO 9001 Standard as criteria for auditing, the importance of an audit program along with basic auditing principles.

St. Louis, MO – February 27, 2009 – Bizmanualz, Inc., a business publications, training and consulting company based in St. Louis, MO, today announced the launch of a completely redesigned version of its ISO 9001 QMS Internal Auditor Training course.  This ISO training course demonstrates requisite auditing skills to beginning auditors, and is also valuable to experienced auditors and quality managers looking for a refresher course or the opportunity to discuss innovative approaches.

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Author: Editor    Published on: February 27th, 2009
Categories: News and Announcements, Quality Training

Scaling the Maturity Levels of Quality Process Management

Your management system consists of business processes that interact with each other through documents and records.  Yet in many companies the system appears to be functioning whether anything is documented or recorded.  Can this be an effective management system?  It depends on the process management maturity of your organization.

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Author: Don Reed    Published on: February 2nd, 2009
Categories: Business Process Improvement, Process Management

Lean ISO 9001 Quality Management System

Question of the month:  Does complying with the ISO 9001 Standard have to be a “document nightmare?”

The old adage frequently applied to ISO 9001 is “Say what you do and do what you say.”  Some organizations seem to take this to mean “Write down everything you do,” but that is really not required by the standard.  The actual requirement is that processes are well-defined and responsibilities clearly communicated.  This can be accomplished through a lot of methods that require little documentation, such as training. 

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Author: Editor    Published on: July 28th, 2008
Categories: ISO Quality Management, Monthly Summary

Lean ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems – Other QMS Documents

In the two previous articles of this series we discussed two important aspects of a Lean ISO 9001 Quality Management System: a Lean Quality Manual and Lean Quality Management System (QMS) Procedures. But what about other documentation that may be needed?

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Author: Editor    Published on: July 21st, 2008
Categories: ISO Quality Management

A Lean ISO 9001 Quality Management System – The Quality Manual

Lean ISO 9001? To many of you this will seem like a contradiction in terms. The term Lean and ISO 9001 are not generally used together, but why not? Does a Quality Management System (QMS) have to be complicated and cumbersome?

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Author: Editor    Published on: July 7th, 2008
Categories: ISO Quality Management