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Quality Objectives for a manufacturing company

The best way to start thinking about quality objectives is to start reading your organization’s quality policy. Can you underline any particular commitments, any particular promises made? Of course, every organization want to meet customer satisfaction, but what is needed to get it? Less defects? More innovative products? Lower price? More flexibility with orders? Faster response?

Your organization want a quality management system (QMS) able to win new customers, satisfy current customers and continue to work with them. What does the QMS need to aim for to get those outcomes as consequences?

The following material will provide you more information:

• Article - How to define Key performance indicators for a QMS based ISO 9001: https://advisera.com/9001academy/24/define-key-performance-indicators-qms-based-iso-9001/-iso-9001/
• Article - How to write good quality objectives: https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/how-to-write-good-quality-objectives/
• Free webinar on demand - Measurement, analysis, and improvement according to ISO 9001:2015 -
  https://advisera.com/9001academy/webinar/measurement-analysis-and-improvement-according-to-iso-9001-2015-free-webinar/
• Enroll for free course - ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
• Book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/
   

Objective targets for mining industries

Unfortunately, I have no experience of working with mining industries. So, let us follow the standard.

Your organization has made an environmental assessment where environmental aspects and impacts were determined. Then, your organization evaluated those environmental aspects and impacts and classified some as significant and deserving improvement in their relationship with the environment.

Let us focus our attention on those environmental aspects and impacts. For example, the quality of the treated wastewater released to nature, or the amount of energy used per amount of ore processed.

The action plans are about what your organization will do to actually improve the quality of the treated wastewater and to become more energy efficient.

Please check this information below with more detailed answers:

• Why mining companies should obtain ISO 14001 certification - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2018/04/17/why-mining-companies-should-obtain-iso-14001-certification/
• How to Use Good Environmental Objectives - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/08/27/key-iso-14001-benefits-to-customers/nowledgebase/how-to-use-good-environmental-objectives/
• Examples of ISO 14001 objectives based on the different company sizes - https://advisera.com/14001academy/blog/2019/10/22/iso-14001-objectives-examples-for-different-company-sizes/
• Enroll for free in this course – ISO 14001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-internal-auditor-course/
• Book – The ISO 14001:2015 Companion - https://advisera.com/books/the-iso-14001-2015-companion/
   

Required manuals under ISO 9001

ISO 9001:2015 has no mandatory requirement for the existence of manual or procedures. It is up to each organization to decide if a manual is useful and what should be its content.

I recommend organizations to have a quality manual, but it is just a recommendation. Please check this article about mandatory documentation - List of mandatory documents required by ISO 9001:2015 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/list-of-mandatory-documents-required-by-iso-90012015/

The following material will provide you information about the quality manual:

• The future of the Quality Manual in ISO 9001:2015 - https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/the-future-of-the-quality-manual-in-iso-90012015/
• Free online training ISO 9001:2015 ISO 9001:2015 Internal Auditor Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-14001-internal-auditor-course/ nal-auditor-course/
• Book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/
   

ISO 20000 implementation benefits

Usually, implementing anything without control lead, sooner or later, into waste of time and money.

IT projects (including ITIL/ISO 20000 implementation) usually require interfacing between systems (i.e. technological solution, as a basis for IT services), processes, roles, etc. Without a decent plan and management, implemented solutions will run in isolation without expected benefits. Additionally, maintenance will be complex, data will be duplicated, processes will be chaotic…

Here are few articles that can give you more information:

Ready, steady… go – Starting ITIL implementation https://advisera.com/20000academy/blog/2014/06/10/ready-steady-go-starting-itil-implementation/

ITIL and ISO 20000 – What does Project Management have to do with it? https://advisera.com/20000academy/blog/2015/03/31/itil-and-iso-20000-what-does-project-management-have-to-do-with-it/

How to use ITIL to avoid 50% of IT project failures https://advisera.com/20000academy/blog/2015/05/12/how-to-use-itil-to-avoid-50-of-it-project-failures/

Approach to build a quality management system

The main steps for implementing a quality management system are the same. However, the larger an organization, the more complex, the more vertical it is. So, normally, larger organizations require more formalization and more training. For example, a larger organization may need documented procedures for some activities that another smaller organization, in the same economic sector, may decide to not formalize in a documented procedure. A smaller organization may use a All-Hands Meeting to communicate a message to everybody, a larger organization may need to use a newsletter, a video or other scalable option.

About implementing ISO 9001:2015 perhaps this free webinar on demand, articles and book can help you:

• Free webinar on demand - Overview of ISO 9001 implementation steps - https://advisera.com/9001academy/webinar/overview-of-iso-9001-implementation-steps-free-webinar-on-demand/
• Checklist of ISO 9001 implementation & certification steps - https://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/checklist-of-iso-9001-implementation-certification-steps/
• ISO 9001 Implementation diagram - https://info.advisera.com/9001academy/free-download/iso-9001-implementation-diagram
• Book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/

Standard Operation Procedure SOP

Protocols are a set of  rules and standards stablished by an external regulating body, whereas SOPs, are the methods used to achieve or comply with those protocols. Protocols do not necessary have an SOP and also, you can develop a SOP regardless of whether there is a protocol that needs to be complied. In addition, protocols are  goal-oriented or problem-oriented, since they describe what has to be achieved while SOPs are the practical instructions that an individual needs to follow to achieve that goal. For instance, a protocol may indicate the accuracy that a process requires, meanwhile the SOP is the  procedure a lab uses to conduct the process.

For more information about protocols and SOPs see the following materials: 

- Enroll for free in the course – ISO 9001:2015 Foundations Course - https://advisera.com/training/iso-9001-foundations-course/
- Book - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/

Comprometiendo la alta Dirección a cumplir con los requisitos de una Norma de Calidad

Para que la alta dirección se comprometa con cumplir los requisitos de ISO 9001:2015 le recomiendo que por un lado presente los beneficios que brinda la implementación de ISO 9001:2015 a la organización y por otro que hable el lenguaje que entiende la alta dirección. 

Puede traducir los requisitos de ISO 9001 a un lenguaje más sencillo que contenga un sesgo más empresarial. Por ejemplo, en vez de hablar de documentos obsoletos, hable a la dirección de pérdida de reputación que podría producirse si la organización emplea documentos que no están actualizados. O en vez de hablar de no conformidades dentro del control de calidad, se hable de pérdida de dinero. 

Aunque el dinero se trata de un lenguaje poderoso en la alta dirección también les interesa temas como la participación del mercado, los clientes ganados o perdidos, el margen de beneficios, la diferenciación de la competencia así como los riesgos a evitar y las oportunidades a aprovechar.

Para más información como sobre comprometer a la alta dirección vea los siguientes materiales:

- Seis beneficios clave de la implemenntación de ISO 9001: https://advisera.com/9001academy/pt-br/kit-de-documentacao-da-iso-9001/nowledgebase/seis-beneficios-clave-de-la-implementacion-de-iso-9001/

- To what extent should top management be involved in your QMS: https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2016/11/22/to-what-extent-should-top-management-be-involved-in-your-qms/

- ISO 9001 top management audit: how to perform it successfully: https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2019/05/15/iso-9001-top-management-audit-how-to-perform-it-successfully/

- Presentación - Why ISO 9001:2015 awareness presentation: https://info.advisera.com/9001academy/free-download/why-iso-9001-2015-awareness-presentation

- Curso gratuito en línea - Curso de Fundamentos ISO 9001:2015  - https://advisera.com/es/formacion/curso-fundamentos-iso-9001/

- Libro - Discover ISO 9001:2015 Through Practical Examples - https://advisera.com/books/discover-iso-9001-2015-through-practical-examples/