Flow Chart Examples

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Benefits of Using Flowcharts
• Promotes understanding of a process
• Identifies problem areas and opportunities for process
improvement
• Provides a way of training employees
• Depicts customer-supplier relationships



If you read through ISO 9001:2000, you will find 6 places where Documented Procedures
are specifically stated to be a requirement. Some folks have been saying how nice it is that
the documentation requirements have been reduced. While this is technically the case, it is
really a non-issue. For the most part companies are not going to be reducing their
documentation significantly if at all.
What about new implementations? Will this be a big help to you? No - not really. You will
have to have the ‘appropriate’ documents in place regardless. Take for example 7.4
Purchasing. There is very likely that your company will need a purchasing procedure. Often
there are a number of purchasing ‘procedures’ (systems) which will require some type of
documentation. The absence of the requirement does not exempt your company from
having documentation ‘where appropriate’. Where appropriate will be determined by a
common sense look at the process in context.
One must remember that to comply with the 1994 version, most companies adopted the
Level II approach - make 20 top level procedures or flow charts to address each element of
the standard.



Planning For Quality
Procure, examine and derive requirements from the accepted quotation or contract relating to the product being
planned;
Review Standards of Acceptability for all features and requirements including those containing a subjective
element that must be clarified;
Consideration of any quality standards,, legal requirements, regulations or codes that apply or may be affected;
Ensure the compatability of the design, the production process, inspection and test procedures and other
applicable documentation
Confirm or determine the necessary documented procedures, instructions,,
drawings, or other documentation required
Confirm or determine the resources needed including raw material, machinery, number of employees, etc.
Identify and acquire any controls,, processes, inspection equipment, total production resources ands skills
required to achieve the required quality.
Update, as necessary, quality control, inspection and testing techniques and development of new
instrumentation, if required.
VP - Operations retains
records file
Examine the production operatrions, sequences and tests and inspection test
points required;
Identify and define responsibility for the preparation of quality records