The ISO
9001:2015 Certification in South Africa standard was established to help companies
of any size implement a standardized QMS (Quality Management System) across any
business or service sector. Even though this, many consultants and Quality
Management System managers can attest to the belief that the standard can be
especially effective in some manufacturing sector businesses, where
establishing lean procedure and eliminating waste can bring significant and
measurable results. Previously we looked at Plan-Do-Check-Act in the ISO 9001
Standard and this type of methodical cycle can also be central to driving
continual development through the Quality Management System performance and
manufacturing output of a machine shop. ISO 9001 Certification in South Africa Given that, let’s see what clauses of
the standard and activities we can undertake to meet them can help justify the
implementation of an ISO 9001:2015 type QMS in a machine shop.
Aligning your processes to ISO 9001 Certification
in South Africa clauses
Context of the organization: The QMS and the associated
processes. This gives your machine shops the chance to define its internal procedure
preferably with input from employees, operatives and other stakeholders to
ensure they are as efficient and lean as possible. This standardization will
play an essential part
in the future. There can be no enhancement without the starting point of
standardized processes.
Planning: Clause includes actions to address hazard
and opportunities, and this can be a key section for your machine shops. Have
you considered a S.W.O.T. (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threat)
analysis? This can be a standard method for businesses in many sectors to
identify areas where a competitive advantage can be gained. Assessment of hazard
and opportunity can also be particularly effective for a machine shops to
identify areas to enhance and this can be done using a traditional “probability
versus seriousness of impact” matrix. The article How to address hazard and
opportunities in ISO 9001 Registration in South Africa can provide guidance on this.
Support: This clause includes several key
aspects, such as competence, awareness and documented information. Have you
equipped your employees with the correct competence, knowledge and training to
perform well? If your machine shop procedure is supported with documentation,
is it clear, concise and easy translatable to establish your employees can
produce a consistent output from the process with no variation? The knowledge
and data collected from your procedure can also allow you to tailor a training
program that can enhance your business. The article How to measure training capability
according to ISO 9001 Certification in Cape town can help you with this issue.
Operation: This is a great clause and includes
critical items such as operational planning and control, plus determining
needs for products and services
as well as their control. In better machine shop, two issues mostly tend to be
the biggest cause of cost: waste material due to inaccurate planning, or
“rework” time caused by repeating jobs due to similar root causes. Extra often than not, both of these
issues can occur at the same time. This is where accurate operational planning
for using the correct skilled employees and accuracy in determining product needs
can be the keys to eliminating waste and ensuring “first-time” pass.
Performance evaluation: Evaluating results of your QMS is
one of the key foundations of determining corrective action or initiatives for
enhancement. There are many
ways this evaluation could be done in a machine shops, but a good method is
measuring material waste and “rework time” spent, and attaching a cost to it.
You can then contain your
internal team and decide on improvement actions; is there a training gap
causing errors and rework to be required? Is there a “knowledge and awareness”
gap in terms of understanding and delivering against customer needs? Does your
resource match your planned output? In a previous article named How to measure
the cost of quality in line with ISO 9001 principles we looked at how to
monetize and enhance process non-conformances, and this can be an effective way
to reduce money and save cost in your machine shops.
How to get ISO 9001 Certification in
Philippines?
If you are
thinking about how to get ISO 9001 Certification in Philippines it is a strong recommendation to
choose Certvalue. Because ISO 9001 registration in Philippines is very easy
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