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What Are the ISO 9001 2000 Design Procedures?
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Design Development
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When you design your product, record everything related to the creation of your product, including the purpose or function of the product, cost to build the product and what consumer the product is intended for. Update any information during the design process. Record changes made to the development of the product, then review the changes. Ensure that the changes have actually been made on the product. Validate these changes, and record the changes for approval. Ensure that the design is approved before release of the product.
Documentation
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Begin your International Standards Organization (ISO) 9001 2000 design procedures by documenting your quality management system. Include in your documents an overview of all the quality assurance practices performed by your company. Write procedures for quality control and save the files in Microsoft Word format on the company's shared network. Label each document with a unique name and number. Create a master control document and give it a reference number. Ensure that each detailed document refers to the master control document by number, and that the master control document points to each process by number. Within each process, add reference documents that point to the procedures within each major process performed with in the quality management system. After all procedures are documented, create a manual that details the overall processes of your organization. Create records of your company's quality management system. Maintain these records in a database. Establish quality management control procedures that will be performed daily. Hire a database manager to oversee all new documentation that comes in to the system to ensure document conformity, such as layout design, accurate procedures and reference to the master control document. Before implementing your company's quality management system, plan it out. Document what you plan to do. Save this plan to file on the corporate network. Upon implementation of the new system, review your plan to ensure that the new system has been effectively established.
Manage Commitment to Overall Quality
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Commit to customers and quality of services. Analyze what works and what doesn't. If your company is not selling a product, then it is quality management's duty to determine the problem. Start by analyzing the product itself. Ask yourself how the product can be improved. Continue to analyze the way procedures are followed and take time to watch personnel working on your company's product. Compare the way in which personnel proceed to assemble the product with the instructions written for the product.
Communication
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Communicate your company's quality management policy to all key players. Make the company's policy available to all personnel either in printed form (post policies in the lunchroom or anywhere else personnel congregates) or posted on a corporate internal network. Make it clear to all personnel that quality management policies must be met by enforcing periodic meetings to discuss and review policies. Review your policies for current suitability. Maintain a record of reviews performed by management, and any changes made to quality management.
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