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Employee Orientation to the

ISO 9001 Quality Management System

Rev. 0 – [Date of Issue]

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Part One

What Is A Quality Management

System?
Quality Management System (QMS)
• “Quality” means “meeting customer
Q requirements.”
• Form, fit, function of hardware products
• Quality of services provided
M •
•
Prompt delivery
Product/service Consistency
•
S •
Customer service
Responsiveness to customer complaints
Quality Management System (QMS)
• “Quality Management” is the activities
Q performed by the company to ensure
those customer requirements are met.
• Inspections
M • Measurements
• Customer feedback review
S • Improvement activities
Quality Management System (QMS)
• “Quality Management System” is the set
Q of processes a company utilizes to execute
its quality management activities.
• The processes in the company that impact on
M quality
• Management of those processes through
objectives and metrics

S • Improving those processes to enhance quality

and customer satisfaction
Quality Management System (QMS)

• Every company has a quality system in place

whether it knows it or not.
• The QMS may be:
– Good or bad
– Formal or informal
– Documented or undocumented
Two Quality Systems
Joe’s Pizza ABC Machine Shop
• Amount of dough, • Make parts according to
cheese, etc. prints
• Spices used • Use raw materials from
• Oven temperature approved suppliers
• Bake time • Inspect parts before
• Boxes used shipment
• Delivery methods (pick • Repair defects found
up, deliver by car, etc.) • Package properly
• Ship all parts express
Standardizing Quality Systems
• Because a company can have any kind of
quality system it wants, customers do not
know in advance whether the system is good
or bad.
• Does a company inspect its work before delivery?
• Does a company have a way to handle
complaints?
• Does a company use good raw materials?
• Are employees properly trained?
Enter ISO
• The world recognized that
this was a problem.
• The International
Organization for
Standardization (ISO)
intended to correct this,
by standardizing quality
systems.
What is ISO?
• ISO is based in Geneva Switzerland.
• Over 160 countries are members of ISO,
including the US.
• ISO develops all kinds of standards, such as
traffic symbols, material standards, inspection
practices, and more.
Example: an ISO Standard
ISO standardized credit card sizes

• If credit cards didn’t comply

with ISO 7810, they wouldn’t
physically fit in bank machines

Source: Wikipedia
What is ISO 9001?
• In 1987 ISO published “ISO 9001” a document
(or standard) that lists some internationally-
accepted, basic rules for a model quality
system.
• Remember:
– “ISO” is an organization
– “ISO 9001” is a document
ISO 9001 “Rules”
• ISO 9001 does nothing more than just list
some rules for managing a company’s quality
system.
• These rules have been recognized by the
world as generally-accepted “good practices”
Adopting ISO 9001
• Companies voluntarily adopt the ISO 9001
rules in order to prove that their systems are:
– GOOD
– Based on internationally-accepted criteria
– Meet minimum requirements for quality
Certification
• Anyone can SAY they comply to ISO 9001. So
“certification” was developed.
• Certification (or “registration”) to ISO 9001 is
accomplished through regular, recurring
“audits” by an independent ISO registrar, who
comes on-site and inspects the company’s
compliance with the standards.
Our Intent
• It is our company’s intent to implement the
common sense rules of ISO 9001 and then
certify it.

• Our certification body (or

“registrar”) is [your registrar’s Registrar Logo (if
company name]. registrar is known)

• The registrar will audit us

periodically to ensure we are
complying with ISO 9001.
Part Two

Our Quality System

What We Have Based our System On
• Our quality system is unique.
• It is based on:
1. The company Quality Policy
2. Customer requirements
3. Employee requirements
4. Other stakeholder requirements
5. ISO 9001 requirements
Your Responsibilities
• Everyone in the company has a responsibility
to understand and improve the quality
system. This means:
• Understand the Quality Policy
• Understand the Quality Manual (managers and
supervisors)
• Understand the Procedures related to your area
• Make suggestions for improvement, or report
existing problems
Documentation
• Quality System Documents Customize this whole
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– Quality Manual practice

– Procedures
– Forms
• Technical Documents
– Drawings
– Specifications
– MPPs
Where to Find Documents
• Our server
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practice
• Document Department.

NOTE:
• If you have documents that are not under revision
control, please forward them to the management
and we will place them on the server.
• Contact management if you are unable to locate a
document.
Quality Policy
ENTER QUALITY POLICY HERE
Understanding the Quality Policy
• As an employee, you must be familiar with the
Quality Policy as it defines how you should
approach everything you do while working
with our company.
• PLUS, auditors will ask you what the Quality
Policy is and how it affects your job.
Quality Manual
• Derived from the Quality
Policy is the Quality
Manual.
• Again, it not only addresses
how we meet the INSERT GRAPHIC OF COVER OF
QUALITY MANUAL HERE
requirements of the
Quality Policy, but also
those of ISO 9001.
Quality Manual
• The Quality Manual must be read by all managers
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• You must be sure to implement those requirements in

your department or area.
• All other employees may read it optionally.
• Some of it will not apply to your position.
Procedures
• Procedures must be read by affected
employees.
• That means you only need to read and
understand the procedures that apply to your
work.
• These give more detailed descriptions of how
to carry out tasks, operate equipment, etc.
Work Instructions
• (If you have work instructions in addition to
procedures, add a slide here discussing the
work instructions in general, and how they are
different from procedures.)
• If you don’t use work instructions, delete this
slide.
Controlled Documents
• Manuals, procedures and forms are
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• Use only hardcopy procedures and manuals

issued by management.
• Or you may use electronics files pulled from
the server files.
• Do not photocopy controlled documents.
• Do not mark up controlled documents.
Do Not Use Uncontrolled Docs
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– Manuals, procedures, specs orinstructions NOT
practice
issued by management.
– Documents you’ve written yourself and have not
sent in for control.
– Documents from other companies.
– Documents without revision numbers or letters.
– Documents marked “OBSOLETE”
– Documents you know are obsolete.
Anything that INSTRUCTS
• Any document that instructs – tells you what
to do – must be controlled.
• This means charts, logs, diagrams or any other
document created for our company which
tells an operator how to do something.
Forms
• You may write on and photocopy forms.
• Always be sure you are using the latest
revision of a form by checking with your
supervisor or with the management

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Correcting a Record
• If you make a mistake when entering data on a
hardcopy form, it is important not to use
correction fluid (which eventually flakes off) .
• The proper method is:
Correcting a Document
• We don’t want employees blindly following
procedures if they are wrong, or just bad.
• If you find something wrong with a document,
you can see that it gets fixed!
• Submit a [CAR Form Abbreviation] when you
find an error in a document.
Part Three

Other Rules of the Quality System

Management’s Job
• ISO 9001 and our Quality System require top
management:
• Care about quality
• Care about the customers
• Promote quality and the customer
• Assess risks and opportunities
• Supply necessary resources
• Measure and monitor the company’s performance
Training
• All employees must be trained to bring them
up to speed for position requirements
• Training must also be done to continually
improve how we do things
Understand the Customer’s
Requirements
• Contracts must “capture” and review all
customer requirements.
• This is to ensure we can actually make what
the customer wants.
• This must happen before we take an order.
Purchasing
• Items we purchase for use in our products
must be bought from proven suppliers.
• We have to clearly tell the supplier what we
want.
• We have to monitor supplier performance.
Production Controls
• When we make product, we must:
• Make sure we plan first
• Use approved equipment
• Use approved methods
• Preserve the product (good handling, packaging,
etc.)
• Keep products properly identified
• NOT use expired chemicals or material
Calibration
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calibrated. practice

• Check your tool for a sticker.

• If it’s not up to date, NOTIFY QC IMMEDIATELY.
Shop Router Rules
• ALL lines to be signed off or marked “N/A”
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• Performing operations out of sequence is okay
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with verbal approval from manager or
supervisor
• NO OTHER CHANGES TO ROUTERS ALLOWED
WITHOUT TALKING TO QUALITY OR
ENGINEERING!
• No white out!
Nonconforming Parts
• Whenever a part fails an inspection or test, it
does not conform to requirements, so it is
called a “nonconforming part.”
• NCP can be:
• Raw materials or parts we receive from suppliers
• Parts or products we are in the process of making
for our customers.
• Finished product ready for shipment to our
customer.
Controlling NCP
• ISO requires that we identify defective
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material or parts and prevent it from being
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mistaken for good material or parts.
• Keep it tagged!
• Keep it segregated!
• If applicable, keep any nonconformance
documentation and/or tags ON THE PART(s)
Things to Consider
• How does the quality of my work affect the
customer?

• How does the quality of my work affect us as a

company?

• If I do something wrong, how does this affect

the customer?
Part Four

Quality Audits
What is Auditing?
• As part of ISO 9001 and our Quality System,
we have committed our company to both
internal and external quality audits.
• These are not financial audits, or audits by
immigration or any other body.
• These audits aim to ensure our ongoing
compliance with ISO 9001, and to drive
internal improvement.
External Audits
• As we discussed, we intend to prove to the
world it is complying with ISO 9001 through
independent audits by a third-party
“registrar”.
• The Registrar will visit us periodically and
compare:
– What we do vs. internal procedures
– What we do vs. ISO 9001
Ongoing External Auditing
• We must pass each audit to maintain ISO 9001
certification.
• The auditor may speak with anyone in the
company. This may mean you!
Typical Audit Questions
• What are you doing?
• How do you do that?
• Do you have a procedure?
• Have you been trained?
• What do you do when something goes wrong?
• What is the Quality Policy?
Internal Audits
• We also have to conduct “internal audits” to
ensure we are sticking to our Quality Manual
policies and the ISO 9001 requirements.
• Some of you will be selected and trained as
internal auditors.
Auditing Processes, Not People
• Audits are conducted to confirm PROCESS
adequacy.
• People are not the focus of audits!

“YOU” are not audited,

the PROCESS is!
Part Five

Corrective & Preventive Action

Continual Improvement
• One of the requirements of ISO 9001 is that
the company must continually improve.
• In order to do this, we have implemented the
[CAR Form Abbreviation] program.
• Supervisors and Managers must become
familiar with this!
What is a [CAR Form
Abbreviation]?
• A [CAR Form Abbreviation] is a form
submitted whenever we have to report:
– A report of a problem
– A customer complaint
– A customer return
• If you find a problem, notify your supervisor,
who will initiate a [CAR Form Abbreviation], as
needed.
[CAR Form Abbreviation] Form
• This is the [CAR Form
Abbreviation] form
• Copies are available
in QC, the Document
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Dept. and other
locations around the
plant
Corrective vs. Preventive
• The form is used to report EXISTING problems,
or things that require a change in order to
prevent recurrence.
• It is also used for preventive action, to report
potential problems, or to prevent occurrence.
• It is also used for any employee suggestion for
improvement.
The Only Rule
• The only rule for submitting a one of these is
that the issue you are reporting be somehow
quality related.
– Do not “write up” people
– Do not “grind axes”
– Make a quality case for your issue!
Part Six

Conclusion
Things to Remember
• Understand the Quality Policy
• Understand the Quality Manual (managers and
supervisors)
• Understand the procedures related to your area
• Sweep your area for uncontrolled documents!

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practice
Things to Remember
• Make suggestions for improvement and report
existing problems through the corrective action
system
• Get ready for an audit!
Questions?