Course Description

Understand the requirements of the CQI-15 Special Process: Welding Assessment and how CQI-15 integrates into your existing quality management system. Learn where these requirements fit in, and how to strategize the inclusion of these audits into the business system and your organization’s existing QMS processes. 

• Learn to apply the CQI-15 assessment to your technology for Welding 
• Strategize your audit preparation or audit execution in the event of supplier audits to the CQI 
• Integrate the requirements into things you are already doing to make sure you do not unnecessarily burden your organization if this is a new Customer Specific Requirement

During this 1-day training receive a 360-degree view of the CQI as it relates to other guidance documents like the IATF and Core Tools, so that you can plan your integration more effectively. Gain a working knowledge of typical things an organization can show to prove compliance for each area of the assessment, and for auditors ...things to look for so that you do not waste time creating unnecessary proof and a sustainability framework to make your work more efficiently so that you can leverage your most precious resource. 

Following this 1-day training you will gain: 

• A working structural knowledge of the assessment including how the pieces fit into the larger picture 
• A detailed knowledge of what you can show to achieve conformance to the special assessment. 
• A working knowledge of auditing and organizational integration for this assessment

Course Details

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Learning Objectives

• Ensure the correct interpretation of the requirements of the CQI-15 "Special Process: Welding System Assessment (WSA)"
• Understand how the CQI-15 integrates into your existing QMS 
• Develop an awareness of how you can apply CQI-15 to your own organization or a supplier’s organization 
• Understand the essential requirements of CQI-15 and identify possible ways of proving you (or your supplier) achieved it (evidence)
• Guide internal auditors on the main aspects associated with a CQI audit for special processes. 

Who Should Attend

• Technical experts that will be carrying out the CQI Assessment  
• Supplier Auditors that will be performing the CQI assessments on behalf of their company  
• Internal Auditors whose Customer Specific Requirements mandate the use of the Assessment.  
• Quality professionals tasked with implementing the CQI 15 within their organization 

Agenda

• What is a CQI and where does it fit within the QMS  
• How is the CQI structured  
• What are the ACTUAL requirements  
• WSA- Welding System Assessment   
• Job Audit Specifics (JSA) 

Certificate

Attendance in the course and participation in activities awards the participant a Certificate of Completion.