Program overview
The IRIS Implementation Program provides everything necessary to design, document and implement a practical IRIS QMS (quality management system) with the aim of achieving third-party certification in the shortest possible timeframe - guaranteed in writing!
TEC's consultants work on-site with your personnel throughout development and implementation and we only consider the program complete after successful third-party certification.
Program details
Each IRIS Implementation Program is customised to suit particular requirements, for example:
Starting from scratch where there is no existing third-party certification
Upgrading from a basic ISO 9001 QMS certification
Modernizing an existing 'procedure-based' IRIS QMS certification
Working with your team, TEC use high level visual aids to explain your QMS processes, simplify procedures and actively manage effectiveness and performance. For example, working with clients in the UK hundreds of narrative procedures have been eliminated and replaced by 4 to 8 key processes - with each process visually mapped onto just four pages! This has resulted in a more efficient and streamlined business model and a user-friendly QMS.
The IRIS Implementation Program is delivered in three phases to a timescale individually agreed with the client. Each phase has tangible ‘deliverables’ - with third-party certification being the deliverable of Phase-3!
TEC work on a fixed price contract with no extras - payments are aligned with the program phases. The programme deliverables are guaranteed in writing from the start.
Program benefits
International rail customers are mandating that their suppliers have third-party IRIS certification as a minimum with their own additional QMS requirements embedded. IRIS certification is rapidly becoming the “Passport” for doing business in this demanding sector.
Certification alone is not sufficient! The QMS documentation must practical, visual and useable by the operational personnel concerned. It must add value to the business, represent ‘best practice’, and focus on performance as well as full conformity to IRIS requirements. Quality tools such as APQP & PAPP, SPC, MSA, FMEA, etc. must be integrated.
The systems designed and implemented by TEC for their clients deliver all of these benefits. Because your personnel are involved every step of the way they will have ‘ownership’ of the QMS processes making day-to-day operational success ‘custom-and-practice’.
Your QMS will, of course, focus on customer priorities such as quality, delivery and responsiveness performance and ensure that your processes are monitored for continuing effectiveness to boost profits and eliminate problems as soon as they are detected. Risk-based thinking, the Process approach and Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle are considered to be the ‘core concepts’ involved.
During the implementation phase, TEC will assess the competency of your personnel and then provide training and coaching in the essential ‘quality tools’ to ensure that they can accomplish their jobs in a correct and consistent manner.
Testimonials/Press
TEC Transnational are a consulting and training organization - we are implementation specialists with over 25-years’ experience. Our full-time team of consultants have designed, documented and implemented modern visual 'process-driven' systems through to successful IRIS third-party certifications in companies throughout the UK.