by Christopher Paris | Apr 19, 2019 | Guidance Document, News
As announced last week, the surprise Second Edition of Surviving ISO 9001:2015 has been released. There was a slight glitch, however, as Amazon only released the new paperback edition, and didn’t make the Kindle (ebook) edition available. That’s been fixed...
by Christopher Paris | Mar 15, 2019 | Guidance Document
Something went down at IAQG and or ANAB, because a recent spate of nonconformities issued to AS9100 users shows that certification body auditors are hammering hard on the clauses related to purchase order (PO) flowdowns. In only the past two months, Oxebridge clients...
by Christopher Paris | Mar 6, 2019 | Guidance Document
One of the most common internal audit nonconformities is related to discovering that employees are not following a published procedure, or that the procedure no longer matches current practice. What’s astonishing is that while ISO 9001 and AS9100 require you to...
by Christopher Paris | Apr 24, 2018 | Best Of, Guidance Document
As written about a lot on this site, ISO 9001 and AS9100 auditors do an awful lot of consulting during audits, even though it’s prohibited; after all, the last time an industry tolerated consultants auditing their own work, we got the Enron scandal and...
by OQRI | Apr 5, 2018 | Guidance Document, Template Kit
Oxebridge has released version 1.10 of its Totally Free ISO 9001:2015 QMS Documentation Template Kit. The kit provides a full set of customizable ISO 9001 document templates any company can use to build their quality management system, and relies on free software to...
by Christopher Paris | Dec 10, 2017 | Guidance Document
In recent days, I’ve been approached by a growing number of small companies seeking the lowest-cost options for implementing a quality system compliant to ISO 9001 or AS9100. These are typically companies seeking to implement the standards for the first time,...
by Christopher Paris | Sep 14, 2017 | Guidance Document
An arcane detail that nearly every ISO 9001 certified company misses is the assignment of industry codes to your QMS scope by your Certification Body (CB, or “registrar.”) These are typically expressed as a set of SIC and NACE codes, and are then used to...
by Christopher Paris | Sep 13, 2017 | Guidance Document
The “process approach” to QMS management has been around since the 2000 edition of ISO 9001, but it’s confused everyone to no end. Making matters worse, the new ISO 9001:2015 standard rewrote the language surrounding the requirements, making it less...
by OQRI | Sep 5, 2017 | Guidance Document
[The following is a full chapter excerpted from the book Surviving ISO 9001:2015 by Christopher Paris. The book is available for purchase at www.survivingiso9001.com.] If you recall, I mentioned that the entirety of the COTO Exercise was building up to the development...
by Christopher Paris | Aug 1, 2017 | Guidance Document
AS9100 Revision D adds a few new requirements that are confusing to some users. Here are some invaluable third-party sources of information and support which can help you address the more complicated and unusual AS9100 clauses. Counterfeit Part Control The Rev D...
