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Iso 9001: 2000 for Small Business: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management [Hardcover]

Arpad Gaal (Author)
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1574443070 978-1574443073 June 28, 2001 1
ISO 9001:2000 for Small Business Management: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management demonstrates how a process-approach quality management system performs in the real work environment. The book gives you an ISO based quality management tool, featuring the year 2000 requirements for ISO 9001. It includes the quality system manual, the operating procedures, and the forms that small to mid-sized businesses need. All this makes it possible for you to use this system immediately - without having to hire costly outside consultants.
Gaal introduces a system for managing product quality problems through prevention - examining every stage of a product's life cycle - instead of just focusing on manufactured goods at the end of the production line. The author identifies the core departments that impact the planning, implementing, and executing of the customer's purchase order requirements from the beginning to the end of the product's life-cycle. The Quality Systems Manual and the Quality Operating Procedures streamline the process for small business applications where low overhead and multiple job assignments dominate.
The most important part of manufacturing is the shop. This is where the product is made and where the problems are concentrated. Problems come in documents, processes, and methods with different impact on product quality or the way you achieve it. Using an innovative approach, ISO 9001:2000 for Small Business: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management shows you how to resolve these issues.

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This is truly a quality throughput system from the beginning to the end in a product's manufacturing cycle. The written communications tools in this book, especially flowcharting, targeting core departmental interactions in maintaining the achievement of product quality in line with customer requirements, are superbly followed through. Process ownership becomes part of the job in each process assignment from the contract activities to the shipping dock. I would call this book the show me how to do handbook in managing product quality in cross-functional organizations. Up-front problem prevention is the name of the game in this book. I love it.
Alex Dreiling, President, Amigo Corporation

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 576 pages
  • Publisher: CRC Press; 1 edition (June 28, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1574443070
  • ISBN-13: 978-1574443073
  • Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,455,840 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Process Approach or Six Sigma. Astronomical cost difference., October 31, 2001
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This review is from: Iso 9001: 2000 for Small Business: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management (Hardcover)
Frankly, I never read about "Process Approach" in any books until my father handed me this one. After I read it, I knew that "process approach" was all about preventing problems through measurable quality objectives folded into the operations' quality procedures. The author provides 235 pages worth of tutoring flowcharts from the books' 565 pages on how to construct, implement, integrate, and maintain a quality management system based on prevention. He is actually implementing the system from the floor as a business is operating. I used only the flowcharts at this time in writing my procedures.

I own a daycare business and was recently cited by the State of Connecticut for numerous process-related violations. So who was at fault, my employees who didn't follow my verbal instructions or I who didn't give them written process instructions. I think the answer is obvious that I was at fault. I'm the business owner. Needless to say, I needed help and needed it fast. Since I read quite a bit about six sigma initiatives, I knew that if I followed the methodologies given, I would be able to solve the cited violations quickly. The more I reviewed my problems the more I became confused. After evaluating my daycare's operating processes, I have determined that applying six sigma practices wouldn't give me everything I needed, because it was not a preventive system. It was a process repair system, problem at a time, and it would cost me an arm and a leg to install it. No. I said. Six Sigma would continue pinpointing my problems alright after my employees made them, but I can't afford running my business through the analysis of statistical charts. I cannot accept piling up additional problems while one is being corrected. I needed total prevention in my operations from the beginning to the end, from everybody, including myself. This is where Mr. Gaal's book guided me in writing my procedures to prevent problems from taking over my business. I flowcharted all my business processes the same way as the author did in his "Training Metrics". I followed the same layout, process numbering, work-title, responsibility identification and process instructions for quality objectives the same way as Mr. Gaal did. Except, I tailored everything to suit my operations. Now I took the citations and made them quality objectives and plugged them in as were needed under the various sub-processes in the operations' flow cycle. For sure, if I didn't put in the quality objectives in terms of measurable quality objectives, in due time, my employees would have made mistakes again possibly in every process step - a different kind than the citation identified, a different kind for a new citation later. Now I can monitor everybody's job actions from the recorded data and take on-spot corrective action on violations. I'm doing in-process continual improvements. No hassle, no added cost, no statistics, and most importantly, no misunderstanding. The quality objective procedures in flowchart format do it all. Process by process, they are my procedures, the instructions, check sheets, audit sheets. They are my records. When the State did the follow-up audit, they not only found a fualtless operation, but I was the first daycare in the State with no problems found on re-audit. I received my daycare license for two more years on the spot.

Later on, I will create my quality management system straight from this book, for it has a lot more real information and examples than I will ever need on how to prevent mistakes. This book puts on a new face about how to implement ISO requirements that is actually putting money in my pocket.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars ISO9001: 2000 for Small Business? I don't think so!, April 1, 2004
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This review is from: Iso 9001: 2000 for Small Business: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management (Hardcover)
I run a small software content business in Australia. I bought this book with the intent on using it for the forms, procedures and documents. Arpad Gaal's book sounded really promising as it was going to solve my ISO9001:2000 implementation. I sweated for weeks reading through the book and trying to work out what was required. I then re-read the ISO9001: 2000 standards dozens of times and it just didn't match with Gaal's book. I was feeling really frustrated about this project. The reason being was that the book is not matching the ISO9001:2000 standards at all - it is a dress up from the earlier '94 standard and is really rebadged as 'ISO9001:2000'. This book did not help it hindered my work towards accreditation. The main reasons are;
a. wrong prcoedures - preventive and corrective action procedures are two procedures in the requirements whilst Gaal sticks these together.
b. the procedures are up to 30-40 pages long to do simple tasks. This is not a process except to spend days reading unnecessary words. Trying to figure the painful processes which can be summarised in a sentence sometimes was not worth it.
c. a book on quality should at least be close to error free as what people expect - this book has many typos and errors for example 'certifcate of comformance' and on and on.

Simply look elsewhere! The work involved in unpacking the badly written text and working out the errors is not worth it!

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars just awful, April 1, 2004
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This review is from: Iso 9001: 2000 for Small Business: Implementing Process-Approach Quality Management (Hardcover)
This book is a waste of time and riddled with errors. The other reviews must have been written by friends of the author's mother!
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quality objective procedures, current quality manual, process instruction procedures, quality operating procedures, customer source inspection, first production piece, line with clause, quality system manual, training metrics, job traveler, work methods instructions, quality objective requirements, sector specific standards, piece verification, entire processing cycle, product quality requirements, first piece inspection, sector specific requirements, quoting process, purchase order requirements, product realization processes, operation process control, quality management system, external customer requirements, quality system procedures
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Sign Rev, Sec Two, Inspection Product Folder, Production Folder, Packing Slip, General Requirement, Supplier Product Folder, Control of Purchases, Control of Customer Supplied Product, Product Return, Sec One, Sec Three, Procedures Manual, Production Planning, The Inspection Supervisor, The Production Supervisor, Issuance Control, Document Change Folder, Audit Schedule, Construction Methods, Quality Manager, Satisfaction Reports, New Sec, Record of Received Materials, Rejected Material Ticket
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