This book provides an in-depth overview of auditing, with a special focus on auditing skills for ISO 9000:2000. William A. Stimson has put together perhaps the most comprehensive auditing handbook available. The book provides keen insight into what to audit for and how to be an effective and efficient auditor. Plus, you'll learn how to make the transition to ISO 9000:2000 easier.
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William A. Stimson, Ph.D., is a certified quality auditor and consultant in ISO 9000 requirements, statistical process control, and quality management. He has more than 30 years' experience in industry, 20 of them as an engineer and manager. This experience includes the design and development of automatic control systems for spacecraft and for industrial applications, and project and functional management of test and evaluation groups. In addition, Stimson spent 10 years as a lead auditor with the U.S. Navy, responsible for the qualification of defense contractors and shipyards under Mil-Q-9858.
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This book provides lots of helpful info. on auditing techniques and the ISO Standard. It has been very helpful as an internal Auditor and I use reference I use on a weekly basis.
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Terrific Guide to Auditing!,
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This is a very comprehensive yet easy-to-understand guide to auditing. It's ideal for anyone who has to perform ISO 9000 internal audits. Highly recommended!
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Audits, a Shakespeare's words imply, have been around for a long time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formative audit, measured deviation rate, nonstatistical sampling plan, suitability audit, audited population, internal quality auditing, audited personnel, audited manager, horizontal audit, entire quality system, audited processes, partial audit, regularly scheduled audit, closing meeting, quality auditors, corollary duty, product realization, nonconformance reports, deviation rates, nonconforming product, quality manual, sampling risk, receipt inspection, haphazard sampling, desk audit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Audits, a Shakespeare's words imply, have been around for a long time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formative audit, measured deviation rate, nonstatistical sampling plan, suitability audit, audited population, internal quality auditing, audited personnel, audited manager, horizontal audit, entire quality system, audited processes, partial audit, regularly scheduled audit, closing meeting, quality auditors, corollary duty, product realization, nonconformance reports, deviation rates, nonconforming product, quality manual, sampling risk, receipt inspection, haphazard sampling, desk audit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Quality Progress, Francine Alleman, Kathy Roberts, Free Press, Van Nostrand, Altamonte Springs, Comdial Corp, Quality Digest, The Institute of Internal Auditors, Walter Shewhart, George Box, John Wiley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Out of the Crisis New!
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- Out of the Crisis by W. Edwards Deming on page 105, page 116, and page 143
- Introduction to Statistical Sampling in Auditing (Wiley series in accounting & information systems) by Dan M. Guy on page 233, page 256, and page 261
- Topics in Mathematical System Theory (Pure & Applied Mathematics S.) by Rudolf E. Kalman in Front Matter, and page 105
- Statistical Quality Control (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management) by Eugene Grant on page 217, and page 261
- Quality Engineering in Production Systems (Mcgraw Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management Science) by Genichi Taguchi on page 74, and page 116
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- The (Almost) Painless ISO 9001:2000 Transition by Denise Robitaille in Front Matter
- Stepping Up to ISO 9004:2000 by Russell T. Westcott in Front Matter
- Systematic Process Improvement Using ISO 9001:2000 and CMMI(sm) by Boris Mutafelija on page 243
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