The At-PQC™ tailored ISO 9001 quality system is proven in industry to enable Suppliers to qualify for and continue to contract with DLA.
Hold On…!
As of May 15, 2018, DLA requires some Suppliers to upgrade from ISO 9001 to AS9003. Click here to browse slides from DLA’s Briefing.
Its been 5 years (November 1, 2013) since DLA decided that quality systems complying with MIL-I-45208 are no longer acceptable when solicitations mandate “Higher Level Quality FAR 52.246-11”. Read the notice, DLA Replaces MIL-I-45208 with ISO 9001 for compliance with FAR 52.246-11 Higher Level Quality.
Rich from Discovery Corporation reports:
“Two months after starting my quality improvement project, two QAR’s visited my facility for 2 days and approved my tailored ISO 9001 quality system. I am a one-person machine shop that can now walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk after updating my MIL-I-45208A inspection system. Four years later, DLA tells me I must be compliant with AS9003, so I updated to keep up with the times.”
Rich’s letter of approval for his Company’s tailored ISO 9001 QMS:
QSA Letter of Approval for Tailored ISO 9001
Tailored ISO 9001 Quality System Kit, $197
The tailored QMS kit includes complementary counterfeit awareness training documents.
Browse the PDF Demo Tailored ISO 9001:2008 QMS Kit
Your Company is fully compliant with DLA’s “Tailored QMS” if you already have an ISO 9001 pedigree (unless your contract is changed to require ISO 9001 tailored to meed SAE AS9003).
Regardless of your QMS pedigree status, there are some flowdowns to add to your purchase order template if your Company is a non-manufacturer.
Visit with us anytime during your Office hours to learn more – 719-649-4242.
The tailored ISO 9001 quality system templates kit contains all documents listed below:
MANUAL AND PROCEDURES
- QMS-00 Quality Manual
- QMS-01 Document Control
- QMS-02 Configuration Management
- QMS-03 Records Control
- QMS-04 Management Process
- QMS-05 Responsibilities Authorities
- QMS-06 Training Program
- QMS-07 Proposal Development and Contract Review
- QMS-08 Purchasing
- QMS-08-1 Purchase Order Review
- QMS-09 Receiving
- QMS-10 Production
- QMS-11 Shipping
- QMS-12 Internal Auditing
- QMS-13 Corrective and Preventive Action
- QMS-14 Control of Nonconformances
- QMS-15 Calibration
- QMS-16 Definitions and Abbreviations
FORMS AND WORK INSTRUCTIONS
- Bulletin (for documenting temporary deviation from specification)
- Calculated Risk Release
- Calibration Reference Only Tag
- Calibration Seal
- Calibration System Forms
- Contract Review Form
- Corrective Action Request
- Counterfeit Awareness (complementary)
- Customer Satisfaction Survey
- Daily Receiving Log
- Dimensional Analysis Form
- Engineering Order Form (change order form for revision controlled documents, EO #101 in download)
- First Piece Inspection Report
- Inspection Instruction (form to detail onsite inspections)
- Inspection Record (form to record results of onsite inspections)
- Inspection Report (revise as required to summarize onsite performance)
- Inspection Summary
- Inspector Stamp Log
- Internal Audit Form (progress report, audit schedule and training slides in download)
- Management Meeting Report
- Nonconformance Report, RFS
- Packing Slip and CofC
- Procedure Template
- Production Inspection Record
- Property Certification from Supplier
- Property Control Tag
- Property Management Log
- Property Record
- Purchase Order
- Purchase Requisition
- QC Tags
- Quality System Assessment Checklist
- Receiving Hold Tag
- Receiving Inspection Instructions
- Receiving Inspection Record
- Receiving Log
- Routing Ticket
- Schedule to QMS Registration
- Shelf Life Expiration Log
- Shipping Log
- Supplier Evaluation
- Supplier Performance Rating Spreadsheet
- Supplier Quality Requirements
- Supplier Survey
- Training Certificate
- Training Log
- Training Matrix for QMS procedures
- Training Orientation Request
- Training Program Progress Report Spreadsheet
- Validation-Verification Form
- Work Instruction
- Work Order
- Zero Acceptance Sampling Plan
Tailored ISO 9001 Quality System Kit, $197
In practice, the Tailored ISO 9001 quality system is about 70% compliant with the ISO 9001:2008 standard. A business can save a significant amount of work on its QMS by using the tailored kit during its transition from the aging MIL-I-45208 system to a modern ISO 9001 QMS.
FYI: DLA continually adjusts its quality requirements according to the complexity of the product/service that is provided. Some contracts now require Suppliers to update ISO 9001 to AS9003 and some still require a tailored ISO 9001 quality system or full compliance with the 2008 or 2015 versions of ISO 9001.
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