I am working in a Ship Management company as Safety & Quality Manager for last 3 yrs . Our company is involved in 'Technical Management ' of Oil tanker ships owned by ship owning company. our activity is comes under 'Service Provision'. Technical management means maintenance of ships structures, hull , machineries as per statutory & regulatory requirements plus controlling spare part requirements. and arrange their supply from relevant OEMs . We also utilize services of external parties for servicing various equipments onboard ships, these external parties are normally certified by OEM of that particular equipment. Various major repairs onboard ships are carried out by experienced Repairers who may or may not be ISO 9001 certified . I need to know following -
1. How to apply requirements of subject clauses 8.5 & 8.6 of ISO 9001:2015 in our above mentioned activities ?
2. How to develop a process flow chart for above activities ?
3. Is it necessary that all OEMs & Equipment Servicing companies ?
Repairers to be evaluated for their performance as per Clause 8.4 of ISO 9001:2015 which normally is extremely difficult in our case ?
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1. How to apply requirements of subject clauses 8.5 & 8.6 of ISO 9001:2015 in our above-mentioned activities?
Answer:
Your organization provides different kinds of services and each time a ship is serviced a different combination of services and parts may be required. So, I’m thinking about designing how each individually service should be performed with what kind of procedures, records and controls, as a kind of library of services.
Each provision of service in a particular ship in a particular request will be a combination of one or more services. You only add the monitoring and control of the set of services in place. After a request for intervention your organization designs and develops a project for that particular request. If you look into each service in your library, you can draw a flowchart from start to end and you can apply clause 8.5. In that flowchart you can identify all places where there are risks of something being wrong and design a quality control plan (clause 8.6)
2. How to develop a process flow chart for above activities?
Answer:
If you try to develop a process flowchart for all activities at the same time it will become a big mess and it will not be useful. A model it is not about describing reality as it is, a model is about describing reality in a useful way. So, that is why I recommend developing a process flow chart for each service and then, develop a project flow chart about how the whole intervention will be managed and controlled.
3. Is it necessary that all OEMs & Equipment Servicing companies ?
Repairers to be evaluated for their performance as per Clause 8.4 of ISO 9001:2015 which normally is extremely difficult in our case ?
Answer:
It is up to each organization to determine what kind of qualification is required for its suppliers. For example, an organization may decide no qualification for a supplier of standard parts but may require more for a supplier of made to order customized parts. About evaluation of performance your organization may decide which suppliers are critical and only evaluate those suppliers.
You can find more information below:
- Risk-based thinking is a great way of implementing prevention and control into a quality management. ISO 9001:2015 promotes the process approach and in this free webinar on demand - The Process Approach - What it is, why it is important, and how to do it - https://advisera.com/9001academy/webinar/iso-9001-process-approach-free-webinar-on-demand/ I show how to relate processes, risks, training, documentation and control
- Purchasing in QMS – The Process & the Information Needed to Make it Work - https://advisera.com/9001academy/blog/2014/03/18/purchasing-qms-process-information-needed-make-work/
- 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/ where I use the risk-based thinking in several examples.
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Sep 08, 2020