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AAR M-1003:2019 Requirements for Documentation & Records

ISO 9001 / AS9100D - Basic Training

AS9100D Objective Evidence Requirements: Part 1 Documentation

AS9100D Objective Evidence Requirements: Part 2 Records

AS9100 - How OCAP effects AS9100 Companies

AS9100 - The Performance-based Surveillance/Recertification (PBS/RP) Program (OPTIONAL)

AS9100 - How to Request Clarification on an AS9100 Requirement (in OASIS)

AS9100D - Product Safety

A Matter of "Risk" (How ISO is struggling to (re-)define "risk")

Auditing ISO 9001/AS 9100, sec. 7.1.5 (Calibration)

Classifying Nonconformities (ISO 9001 & AS9100)

Context of the Organization... and "Interested Parties"

Crosby's Church of Zero Defects

How “Diffusion of Responsibility” Hinders Quality

How a QMS is different from an ISO 9001 Certification Management System

How to Appeal a Non-conformance

Human Factors

ISO 9001 Objective Evidence Requirements: Part 1 Documentation

ISO 9001 Objective Evidence Requirements: Part 2 Records

ISO 17025:2017 Objective Evidence Requirements: Part 1 Documentation

ISO and Globalism

Misuse of a Corrective Action System (A Case Study)

PDCA - The Origin Myth

Performance Boards and Obeyas

Preventive Action ≠ Risks and Opportunities?

Rainbows, Unicorns... and Audit Reports?

Re-thinking CAPA

Re-writing ISO 9001:2015 through Interpretation

Risk-Based Internal Audits

Supplier Quality Surveys - You're probably doing them wrong

Those who fail to plan… plan for MANY nonconformities!

Types of Audits (e.g., system audits, product audits, configuration audits)

Understanding Quality KPIs & Objectives

What are Source Inspections?

5S - Information (and Resources/Tools for Implemention)

BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) - Modern Flowcharting

Continuous Improvement... and TRIZ

Corrective Action "Whac-A-Mole"

Countermeasures: The pole on the front of a WW II US Army Jeep

Customer Satisfaction: Do customers "really" know what they want?

DMAIC - For Improverment

Employee Engagement

Golf and Corrective Action

How to Create Effective Procedures

Human Error: B-17 Landing Crashes During WW II

Kaizen - Separating the Myths from Reality

Purchasing: Quality Clauses vs. Supplier Quality Requirements Manual

QMS Certifications Listing

Reducing Waste: Through Coordinating Purchasing & Accounting

The 8 Wastes of Lean… and the story of “AR=0”

Using Red Team vs. Blue Team to Improve Quality

The “Voice of the Customer”… and the small pocket on jeans

The “Voice of the Customer”… and the "Pistol Port" that wasn't used as a "Pistol Port" on the M4 Sherman Tank

Traditional Business Management vs. Lean Six Sigma Management Approaches

Value Added Audits

Visual Management... and Mule Tails

Visual Management... the Van Halen way

Calipers: Advantages and Disadvantages of the 3 types

NIST Traceability Numbers - The Sasquatch of Metrology

Reducing Waste: Through Optimizing Calibration Intervals

Auditing Calibration of Plug Gages

The 1911 - A History of Improvements

The Grain of Sand

The Salesman vs The Subject Matter Expert