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...
