MCT Beginning

1. The position of the quality manager is to be:

• The representative of top management in the company
• The customer's ambassador in the company
• The representative of the company for the customer
• Top management contact for the customer

2. Examples of definitions of the word quality

• Ability to meet requirements
• Implicit or explicit need or expectation
• Ability to satisfy the customer
• Fulfillment of a specified requirement
• Absence of defects
• Ensure compliance with specified criteria

3. The results of the internal audit:

• Are outputs of the management review
• Are inputs of the management review
• Allow to find opportunities for improvement of the QMS

4. Top management commits to:

• Share the vision
• Clarify the mission
• Establish the strategic plan
• Establish the quality policy
• Determine customer needs and expectations

5. The quality manager knows, among other thinhs, how to:

• Get organized
• Make time an ally
• Keep other wait
• Delegate work
• Drive changes
• Smile from time to time
• Promise to do better