2022 Top 10 IATF Major and Minor Nonconformities Compared Year-Over-Year
IATF has published their year-end statistics for top 10 major and minor nonconformities raised during CB audits from December 2021 to December 2022. We’re taking a look back at the year-end statistics from 2021 to see how things have changed over the last 12 months. The top 10 major nonconformities from 2021 compared to 2022 […]
GM Releases Updated IATF 16949 Customer Specific Requirements Effective January 1, 2023
On December 22nd, General Motors published their updated IATF 16949 Customer Specific Requirements, with the new CSR taking effect on January 1, 2023. The full table of changes is in the image below. Aside from the replacement of BIQS requirements with GM Quality Performance Requirements, the most noteworthy change is the note: “Throughout the document: […]
What a QMS Isn’t: Two Common Misconceptions When Implementing a QMS
Being in the QMS consulting business, we get to work with all sorts of clients from various industries who want to implement or improve their quality management systems starting from various levels of maturity. Some have systems in place but are looking to make them more robust or more reflective of their processes, eliminating redundancies […]
Paul Simpson Leaving Role as Chair of ISO TC 176 SC 2, the Committee Responsible for ISO 9001
Paul Simpson took to LinkedIn early today to announce to his nearly 4,000 followers that he was stepping down from the role as Chair of ISO TC 176 SC 2, the committee responsible for ISO 9001, ISO 9004, and other supporting quality management standards. Paul was originally nominated for the role by BSI in mid-2018, […]
TC 176/SC 2 Finished Review of ISO 10007:2017; Majority Favor Confirmation
TC 176/SC 2, the group responsible for ISO 9001, has finished its review of ISO 10007:2017, in accordance with the normal 5-year review cycle for ISO standards, with a large majority of SC 2 reportedly being in favor of confirming the standard as-is. ISO 10007:2017 Quality management – Guidelines for configuration management, is a quality […]
TC 210 Not Ready to Adopt Definition of Risk Outlined in Annex SL
Last week, we wrote about recent reflections on the current state of ISO 9001 and how the 2015 standard caused so much confusion with the added notion of risk-based thinking – how the standard failed to align with language in ISO 31000, while also acknowledging that the language in ISO 31000, as lauded as it […]
Is ISO 9001 Undergoing a Midlife Crisis? | Opinion
ASQ has recently posed a plethora of introspective and analytical articles in its flagship Quality Progress magazine on the current state of the ISO 9001 standard, its waning influence in the world, and even questioning the efficacy of its use. These, I’ve found, are an invigorating and honest look at the world’s most popular and […]
TC 176 Plans to Correct Mistakes Made With the Introduction of “Risk-Based Thinking” in ISO 9001:2015 | Opinion
The July issue of ASQ’s Quality Progress was one of the best issues I’ve read in a long time, with a much-appreciated emphasis on risk management and including a terrific article from Jayet Moon that served as an introduction to the new Quality Press book Foundations of Quality Risk Management, which is definitely now on […]
Free Whitepaper: How to Integrate ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001?
There is an ever-increasing competition in the market with a higher awareness of both environmental and health & safety performance for companies. This awareness is driving businesses to implement three of the ISO standards, ISO 9001 (click here to learn more about ISO 9001), ISO 14001 (click here to learn more about ISO 14001) and […]