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Context, Scope & Leadership

Deciding what the quality management system covers and why: the organisation's context, interested parties and their requirements, the sites, products and remote support functions in scope, the quality policy and objectives, and top management's commitment and accountability, including the customer specific requirements that will shape it when automotive customers are served.

Where this stage sits

This stage with its neighbours. Each row is a discipline active here, shaded by how mature its work is by the end of each stage.

Stage

^A01 Context, Scope & LeadershipYou are here

^A02 Gap Assessment & QMS Planning

^D03 Process Design & Documentation

Certification and governance milestones

LCLeadership commitment SAScope and policy approved QPQMS plan approved

Processes and operations milestones

DRSystem documentation released

Top management^D

Planned

Documented

Quality management system^A

Planned^A

Documented

Customer quality and specific requirements^A

Documented information and change control^D

Supplier quality and development^A

Planned

Documented

Competence, training and awareness^A

Planned

Documented

Measurement, calibration and MSA^A

Documented

KeyPlannedSystem plannedDocumentedSystem documentedImplementedSystem implementedReadyReady for certificationCertifiedCertificate issuedMaintainedCertificate maintainedFaded block: Held, the status shown before it still standsFreeze or sign-off pointMilestone for one item; the rest of the work carries onMilestone gateYou are here: Context, Scope & LeadershipAI impactDisruption (red)Augmentation (blue)Opportunity (green)How AI is changing the workWhat the steps mean What the codes mean

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Stages

Context, Scope & Leadership (this stage)^A
Gap Assessment & QMS Planning^A
Process Design & Documentation^D

Certification and governance milestones

Processes and operations milestones

System documentation released (DR)

Disciplines

Top management^D
- Context, Scope & Leadership: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: top management commits to the system and approves its scope, the quality policy and the plan to close the gaps.; Quality policy released
- Gap Assessment & QMS Planning: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: top management commits to the system and approves its scope, the quality policy and the plan to close the gaps.
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: top management provides the resources and follows progress while the processes are defined and released.
Quality management system^A
- Context, Scope & Leadership: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: quality management analyses the context, runs the gap assessment and writes the implementation plan and objectives.^A
- Gap Assessment & QMS Planning: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: quality management analyses the context, runs the gap assessment and writes the implementation plan and objectives.
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: quality management coordinates the process definitions and the release of the documented system.
Customer quality and specific requirements^A
- Context, Scope & Leadership: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: customer quality builds the register of customer specific requirements.
- Gap Assessment & QMS Planning: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: customer quality builds the register of customer specific requirements.
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: customer quality maps each customer specific requirement to the processes that meet it and completes the register.
Process owners^A
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: process owners define their processes with owners, measures and the interactions between them.^O
Documented information and change control^D
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: document control releases the procedures, work instructions and system description under control.
Internal audit^A
- Gap Assessment & QMS Planning: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: internal audit names its auditors and starts their qualification.
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: internal audit plans a risk based audit programme from the documented processes.
Supplier quality and development^A
- Gap Assessment & QMS Planning: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: supplier quality plans how suppliers will be approved and monitored.
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: supplier quality defines the supplier approval and monitoring process.
Competence, training and awareness^A
- Gap Assessment & QMS Planning: maturity Planned, System planned. Planned: competence and training sets the competence requirements for each role.
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: competence and training prepares the training for the documented processes.
Measurement, calibration and MSA^A
- Process Design & Documentation: maturity Documented, System documented. Documented: measurement and calibration defines calibration and measurement system analysis in the controlled procedures.

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