Achieving Quality Professional Status Victoria Tait, Quality Specialist at Qualitait – a division of J Tait & Sons, UK, talks to Daniel Moore about securing Chartered Quality Professional status (CQP MCQI), and what others should consider when regrading. Daniel Moore: What made you decide to apply for this grade? Victoria Tait: I have worked in quality…
Understanding ISO 9001 Risk Based Thinking: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) have put together an Auditing Practices Group Guidance on: Risk Based Thinking. Read how ISO 9001 – Quality management can address risk planning in your organisation Risk has been always implicit and addressed in ISO 9001. Many…
Internal Training for Achieving Quality Standard: Dr Stephen Hughes, CQP FCQI, Head of Quality and Rick Ellis, CQP MCQI, Head of Profession for Quality at AWE describe an internal training programme that is being developed to improve the understanding of quality management principles within the organisation Based in Berkshire, UK, AWE has been at the…
Supply Chain Productivity Through Digitalization: It has been advocated that ‘supply chains compete, not individual firms’ for over 30 years, but this often fails to be the case in practice. Jan Godsell, Professor at the University of Warwick, asks why this is so difficult to achieve, and why advances are on the horizon Supply chain productivity…
Reduce Quality Cost Through ISO 9001: Vimala Balusamy, CQP MCQI, Quality and Project Management Consultant, India, shares her five steps to help prevent poor quality costs in businesses. When a customer experiences poor quality or bad service from an organisation, they will often go to the latter’s competitor to meet his/her demands. This is the…
Bringing Better Quality Into Construction Through QMS Daniel Moore speaks to Charlie Versi, Director of Quality, Europe, at Multiplex and 2018’s Quality Professional of the Year, about life after the awards and how this accolade has helped him to promote quality across the construction sector. Daniel Moore: How would you sum up your experience of…
Building Quality Culture Through TQM: Miguel Cartañá, Senior Quality Consultant at AQC Group, Spain, explains the importance of Total Quality Management (TQM), and the principles quality teams and their businesses should adopt to achieve success. Understanding the meaning of Total Quality Management (TQM) is not simple, just as it would be to design a bridge…
Eliminating of The Management Representative Roles in QMS: Dr Christel Fouche, Health and Safety Specialist and Lead Auditor, shares her experience for performing successful audits under the ISO 45001 standard, and explains how to adapt to changes following the migration from OHSAS 18001. Auditing was much easier when a management representative was a requirement in…
Competencies of Quality Professionals in Quality 4.0: Mohamed Mohamedi, Quality Management Engineer at Aramco, explores the non-conventional skills and experience required of auditors in a Quality 4.0 era The past decade has seen rapid advances in connectivity, mobility, analytics, scalability, and data analytics, spawning what has been called the fourth industrial revolution or Industry 4.0. This…
