ElectroStat: an ISO / IEC 17021, ISO 19011 and IATF-Approved Company
05 April 2007 10:29
In February 2007, a new version of the ANSI/ESD S20.20 was published, while the new IEC 61340-5-1 and IEC 61340-5-2 are being printed at the moment. The IEC 61340-5-3 is proposed to be sent to the members of the IEC / TC 101, who will have until the end of March to give their remarks. The final vote is expected to be in June 2007 during the IEC / TC 101 meeting in Japan.
ElectroStat's Vincent Neel is an IPC certified ESD-instructor, and a member of the ESD Association.
A lot of new or revised papers and presentations can be found at www.es-electrostat.com/downloads.htm.
ELECTROSTAT MEETS ISO / IEC 17021 and ISO 19011 REQUIREMENTS
At the beginning of the year ElectroStat started a new service, which can be seen at www.es-electrostat.com/quality_management.htm.
Until now, one of the biggest problems organisations had with the implementation of the ISO/TS 16949:2002 was the requirement that all suppliers had to be certified to ISO 9001:2000 by an accredited third party certification body (§7.4.1.2). This caused a difficulty, as a lot of organisations co-operate with little pop and mom shops.
Only suppliers to Ford had the possibility to approve suppliers without this certification, as long as the STA agreed with the audit and the auditor.
In December the IAOB published a new sanctioned interpretation (viewable at www.iaob.org/showPage.php?title=ISO/TS 16949:2002 7.4.1.2 Supplier quality management system development), which allows organisations to release suppliers without an ISO 9001 certificate if the organisation performs second party audits and the applicable standards (ISO / IEC 17021 and ISO 19011), are met.
ElectroStat fulfils all these requirements, and can therefore approve your suppliers without an ISO 9001 certificate.
AN IATF-APPROVED COMPANY
A second problem that organisations have is the qualification of the internal auditors. Although there are no formal rules about this, a lot of external auditors have their own opinion and write deviations if the internal auditors are not qualified by one of the IATF bodies.
ElectroStat, by contrast, has the written approval of an IATF body to provide such training and to write certifications.
The beginning of the year is a time when a lot of organisations audit their archives and review their procedure about record retention. We want to inform our customers that some OEMs are planning to switch the retention time of documents regarding product integrity from 15 to 20 years. We also want to inform our Belgian customers that the legal retention time for financial data has decreased from ten to seven years.
For more information on this company:
ElectroStat - Consultancy and Training for Preventing Electrostatic Discharge
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