by Martina Riebenbauer | Oct 10, 2019 | Automotive, Functional Safety, Quality Management
When one of my former employers talked about functional safety for the first time on one of the new projects, I saw two types of expression. The first facial expression of many colleagues was: I do not know that, I never heard of it. The second look expressed a kind...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Sep 26, 2019 | Events, Functional Safety, Medical Devices, News, Quality Management, Uncategorized
Last week the 26th EuroSPI Conference took place in Edinburgh which welcomed all international participants with unexpected beautiful weather. The three-day event offered exceptional key notes, interesting industry news and 10 different workshops focusing above all on...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Sep 17, 2019 | Quality Management
Welcome back to another blog related to quality management topics. In this instalment we will take a look at one of the key concepts of ISO 9001:2015 – the role of top management in communication as part of the implementation and maintenance of and effective and...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Sep 10, 2019 | Events, Medical Devices, Quality Management
Good question! We didn´t know either until the day Stuart Hardie spoke about quality management at this year´s Product Design Scotland´s annual summer design event at the breath-taking Saint Luke´s church in Glasgow. The event was all about exploring the role of...
by Alastair Walker | Aug 16, 2019 | Automotive, Functional Safety
Google analytics is a wonderful thing. Since we published our series of blogs on ISO 26262 Safety Element out of Context (SEooC) at the end of 2017, this series has been a clear leader in our rankings, hence this has brought us to a fourth blog on SEooC and since the...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 23, 2019 | Medical Devices, Quality Management
Welcome back to this final instalment of this three part blog series on Quality Management and supporting processes. One of the critical components of any quality management system today is the need to develop a robust risk management programme. As such, this final...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 17, 2019 | Quality Management
Welcome to the second of this three part series of blogs related to Quality Management and supporting processes, where we will take a look at another “companion” document created to help businesses navigate the implementation of a management system that meets the...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 9, 2019 | Quality Management
Welcome to the first in another three part series of blogs related to Quality Management and supporting processes. My name is Stuart Hardie, a Quality Management Consultant with Lorit Consultancy, and this series of blogs will cover a few examples of “companion”...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 4, 2019 | Automotive, Events, News
Last week Alastair Walker and Dijaz Maric attended the VDA Automotive Sys Conference in Potsdam. We were welcomed with wonderful weather in a beautiful city and an interesting conference programme with sessions and key notes from a huge number of international...
by Martina Riebenbauer | Jul 2, 2019 | Automotive, Quality Management
In the final part of this blog series, we are talking about the supplier management according to IATF 16949 and reference to external development processes. Since a large number of subsystems are often created by suppliers, an efficient supplier management is...
