Using ISO parlance, a management system is designed to achieve objectives. In the case of a quality management system (QMS) the most basic objective is to succeed by satisfying customers. A QMS is a system designed to satisfy customers by providing them with timely, quality products and services. Continue reading
In this month’s installment of the Quality System series, we will take a closer look at what is becoming perhaps the most useful tool in the belt of today’s Quality professionals: Risk Management.
This blog has been designed for readers whose organizations haven’t yet formally adopted this practice. The installment includes an overview of the terminology, objectives and processes involved in strengthening the existing Quality Systems with those designed to manage the risks inherent to product development and routine manufacturing and monitoring.
We have talked with a number of companies that are standing up risk programs.
Many companies are driven by ISO 9001:2015 and Risk Based Thinking. Others are driven by US Federal risk requirements. Some are driven by Ebola contagion fears. Some are driven by cyber security and homeland security requirements. Continue reading
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
In Maxims for Revolutionists (1903) – by George Bernard Shaw Continue reading
I recall a sign over the employee’s entrance door for a company that read, “QUALITY STARTS HERE.” How about the door that upper management enters every day?
The salmonella news we are hearing about and reading about is for the peanut butter salmonella scare that happened in 2008-09. There was also a chicken salmonella issue this year. Go to Voice Search on your cell phone and ask about “Salmonella in peanut butter” and Salmonella in “chicken Salmonella” and you will be surprised about all the food products that have Salmonella and the very small, if any Federal Inspections that happen. Continue reading