Quality manual example...

From the handbook to the management system

Quality manual as an example. Maybe you remembered it... As an example, the ISO 9001 qualityhAndboek: The example for every department manager. In fact, it was an example of a quality manual, safety manual, environmental manual...   or a combination of all of them. Keeping the quality manual – an example for so many within the profession – up to date was a challenge. New versions were constantly needed, where you had to sign off again after you had received and/or read them.
Now we live in the world of ISO 9001:2015 where new digital management systems are much more effective than a quality manual. This quality manual used to be the example, but now it is more of an outdated reference document.
Just take a look at the Metaware concept.

And then there was ISO 9001:2015 2026

The quality manual no longer serves as an example since ISO 9001:2015. Everything now revolves around 'documented information'.  It is no longer a matter of 'drawing up a handbook', for example by replacing the mandatory documents...

Many advisors have given their new insights and examples about this, which make it clear that the quality manual is a thing of the past:

• ISO 9001:2015: Not a handbook, but documented information
• Switching to the renewed standard ISO9001:2015
• A simple Quality Manual and no Bureaucracy
• ISO 9001:2015 means saying goodbye to quality manual
• The quality manual, mandatory procedures and registrations
• The impact of deregulation of the quality system on ISO 9001:2015

These advisors are focused on the content and in a way ignore the tooling.

Beyond the quality manual example 

On the IT side, developments have perhaps gone even faster: social quality management systems, a SAAS solution. Quite different from the collection of process descriptions, procedures, instructions and forms. Printed and bundled in the bookthat served as an example for every department manager... A digital (quality) management system can do so much more, apart from the various 'ISO standards'. (Just for fun, put this Proware system online in 60 seconds as a test.... and let me know if sample documentation is useful.)

An overview of 'standard' functionalities of a digital management system:

For those who are still 'fighting' with loose documents, have a cluttered version management or have to go to the department manager's cupboard for the handbook ....  
Set up management system Proware, software tool for quality management, in 60 seconds. And spot the differences...

Want to get started right away? Click here for the mandatory ISO 9001 documents.

The mandatory 6 procedures in your handbook from the old ISO9001:2008 have disappeared, but what remains is the 'documented information'. Documentation is therefore still necessary within quality management in the following areas:

And watch the video below to see how this can be worked out in a platform, for example. You are immediately up-to-date !