As the Quality Manager you are responsible for Quality Management System (QMS) compliance.  In other words, you must manage all company-wide, quality policies, procedures, processes, programs, and practices, to assure the company of continuous conformance with appropriate standards and regulations.  In a smaller company you may also be the document control manager, quality auditor, and process improvement specialist.

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Writing procedures is an exercise in controlling the cost of compliance.  You’re trying to comply with customer expectations, management objectives, government regulations, and/or industry standards, making compliance expensive.  Regardless of the reason for compliance, wouldn’t you want to write as few procedures as possible if you could still conform to the compliance mandate and keep your compliance costs to a minimum?

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Developing a management system compliant with the req uirements of AS9100 is now easier with the new AS 9100 Aerospace Policies, Procedures & Forms from Bizmanualz. The manual is of great use to all companies in the aerospace/aviation supply chain.

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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

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Last week we discussed a little about AS9100. You may have seen other ISO standards too. In fact, ISO standards are in use today by over 600,000 companies, worldwide. So what are they for and what is the real difference between them?

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