ISO 13485: 2003 December 7, 2014 Project & Quality Management Assignment 2. Introduction: ISO 13485:2003 is an International Organizational for Standardization published in 2003. This international standard requires specifications for a quality management system where an organization needs to provide for designing or manufacturing medical devices. These requirements are essential for any organization that provides services that are related to medical devices disregarding the type or the size of the organization. Medical products have to be compliance with ISO 13485 to achieve compliance with European regulatory requirements. The main purpose of this international standard is to facilitate compliance to global regulators and requirements as a management responsibility. In addition, in some countries such as European countries it is necessary for companies to be certified with ISO 13485 to legally sell or market their medical devices. On the other hand, ISO 13485 is similar to ISO 9001 but they are slightly different. ISO 9001 is focused on ensuring that an organization must continually improve the quality system and provide products that satisfy customer requirements. Whereas ISO 13485 ensures that an organization maintains the quality system and provide …show more content…
After that an audit can be conducted to check whether the organization achieved the certain requirements and criteria or not. When the company is certified it is allowed to advertise and markets its certificate. The customer will know that the company is registered with ISO 13485 which indicates that this company provides a good quality management for the desired medical device. ISO 13485 can be considered one of the most important quality standardizations as it takes into account the health and safety for people that are benefiting from medical
ISO 9001:2008 sets the requirements on the quality procedures and their content in sections 4.2.3, 4.2.4, 8.2.2, 8.3, 8.5.2, and 8.5.3.
As a tier one automotive manufacturer that is ISO-9001 certified, are required to perform Layered Process Audits (LPA) to various protocols. These audits are monitored both internally and externally by our customers to identify variations in the manufacturing process that could lead to non-conforming parts. The current LPAs are slightly tailored for each manufacturing department, currently five different departments.
This is if you want to be sure that you have the right products and the best equipment that you can use when assisting your patients. Be sure to buy products that are going to be made by manufacturers who have earned a good reputation over the years. There is a good chance that they have been getting very good feedback from their customers and buyers and you would certainly want to capitalize on that as much as you can.
2. ISO 14001 is a set of standards that govern how a company designs service processes.
For maintaining international standards for its production processes, ISO-9001 certificate has been awarded to “Carton line” and “Flexible line” of packaging division.
Invent One, LLC is proud of its reputation for delivering quality components, and has established a comprehensive quality assurance program that is in full compliance with ISO 9001:2000 quality assurance standard. An ISO certificate is not simply a one-and-done certification, and must be renewed approximately every 3 years in order to ensure continued fulfillment of all existing standards as well as any new standard that have been developed.3 This certification stands as proof that Invent One, LLC is committed to quality and serious to customer satisfaction. Our quality assurance program is based around the following principles:
Indicators per regulatory and accreditation requirements (Threats to patient safety, Medication therapy/medication use, Operative and invasive procedures, Unanticipated deaths, Infection prevention and control system, Customer satisfaction, etc.)
19. Firms that wish to do business with the European Community can benefit from having a quality management system that needs ISO 9000 standards TRUE
• Objective: To be the recognized international leader in providing integrated quality management systems to manufacturers of electronic devices and equipment.
“ISO is commonly known as ‘International Organization for Standardization’, the ISO 9001:2000 standard is used for quality systems audited by outside auditors. This standard is applicable for manufacturing companies not only for software. This standard is given based on the documentation, design, production, testing, servicing and other processes.” (Testing Excellence.com, 2009).
principles of ISO 14040 and ISO 14044 standards were used as guidelines. In completing our work, we
The International Organization for Standardization developed a series of written quality standards (Evans, 2014). The purpose was to standardize quality requirements between European countries in the common market and countries wanting to do business with them (Evans, 2014). This paper will review the ISO 9000 standards, the benefits of implementing an ISO-compliant quality management system (QMS), and describe challenges to the successful implementation of such a program in a hospital system.
The East Nipissing Hospital adopts ISO standards as a total quality management methodology in order to ensure quality services to patients. Through the laid down mission, vision, goals, and objectives of the hospital, ISO standards methodology ensures enhanced performance within the organization. The mission and the vision of
This was to be done through minimizing the errors incurred either in their production line, or, more importantly, in the supplier’s production line. The British Ministry of Defense insisted that the supplier provide a log describing in detail the process of production, checking beforehand if any faults or mistakes were incurred. On the other side of the globe, the US military also required such auditing on the processes of manufacturing and thus adopted a very similar way of inspection, later to be adopted by NASA and NATO. With globalization and the growth in mass production came the need for equivalent QMS standards for industry. In 1971, the British Standard BS 9000 was developed as a quality assurance standard for the electronics industry; BS 5179 followed thereafter providing Guidelines for Quality Assurance (The British Assessment Bureau, 2012). This standard was later reviewed by the British Standards Institute (BSI) and delegates from industry to form BS 5750, later to become ISO 9000. In 1987, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) adopted BS 5750, and, with minor reviews, renamed it to become ISO 9000. Since 1987, the ISO 9000 family of standards has been reviewed multiple times; with a new edition being published every couple of years, keeping the standards up to date with modern day technology and ways of production.
ISO 9001 is a Quality management standard which is recognised internationally and used by organizations worldwide. It can be used by business of all sizes, it provides an effective quality management system. It was first published in 1987 (updated 1994, 2000, 2008). The latest version was published in 2015. This replaces all the previous editions. (Praxiom Group 2014)