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You may have noticed that graphic designers are very easy to find on the internet. As a matter of fact, if you do a google search, you will find over 27.3 million web pages that mention the subject. Anyone can learn to produce graphic illustrations and computer visuals plus there are many types of software to accomplish this. There are a lot of schools out there that offer degrees in this area. Some even say you don’t need any artistic talent. You just need to learn their computer software. As you can imagine, the market has been flooded with designers who would love to work with you. How do you narrow the search and locate the one for you? Here are some hints that should prove helpful. * The first thing to do is to work out your own ideas of the design that you want created. You can be as general or specific in the description of what you want designed. Having the idea of what you want makes it easier to find a person that can execute it for you because you can look at the designs that the person created to see the level of professionalism, the style and creativity. * If you are creating designs for your business, remember sometimes you get what you pay for. This may not be the time to save some money by going for the low budget. This will be the first view of your business and you want people to remember it in a positive way. * The highest price is not necessarily the best either. You may find a graphic designer that has an extensive portfolio that charges a high rate which s/he may indeed deserve, but does the person design in a manner that you envision for your business? * You may be faced with the choice of an experienced designer or someone fairly new to the field that has had some very good designs. The experienced person will most likely have all the technical parts of the process streamlined such as which formats are best for the internet, for printing and for presentations. The newbie may have the designing down, but does s/he know the correct paper to use when printing or the best color output for online? Ask for samples. * Does the person have references? This is important so you can find out if the person was swift and professional in delivery of the designs created for others. Even a person that is newly in the field of graphic designing would have at least one reference that s/he could give. If you don’t see references or testimonials on the persons website, ask. These tips should help you narrow your search and find a professional who is easy to work with and who can put your ideas into a professional format for your business. Want to find out more about graphic illustration, then visit Graphic Design by Lisa on how to choose the best graphic designer for your needs. |
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What To Look For When Hiring A Graphic Designer
Thursday, April 28th, 2011Harley Davidson Bedding As A Home Accessory
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The Harley Davidson Bedding is one of the most expensive beds and also has the best quality I ever have. You could actually see it on the cloth and the designs. It is a very beautiful creation so make sure that if you have one you will take care of it too. Below are some tips in designing the room with a Harley Davidson bedding. To design your room, the Harley Davidson bedding must be placed in the right area. You should have a plain colored background. Do not use other colorful designs in the wall; this would just make it tacky. Do not put other furniture, curtains and the like that has elaborated designs; it will only drown the bedding. Do not even use the Harley Davidson curtain because it has too a very detailed design. So better be sure to have a plain colored background and not to have too much detail in the room. There are also the new designs of Harley Davidson; the one with the motorcycle, some that has the hot pink, electric blue and the black. These are also cool designs that you could use too. Men and women will love it too and are very appropriate to any gender. There are also new designs that has the tribal and tattoo patterns. The Harley Davidson bedding has a variety of designs and they provide new ones every now and then. If you cannot find the one you like do not be in a hurry to choose something that does not match your preferences. Every year, the Harley Davidson collection expands. They provide products for different ages, gender and a lot more. They also consider selling different furniture and equipment. You can check out the internet and look for auction sites to find more affordable Harley Davidson products because it really has a premium price outside. Looking to find the best deal on Harley Davidson bedding, then find the best advice on http://www.harleydavidson-bedding.com Harley Davidson bedding for you. |
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Quality Manual for ISO 13485 2003 Standard
Monday, August 3rd, 2009|
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A quality manual is a high-level definition of a quality management system of your company. It is similar to an expanded mission or vision statement. Quality manual establishes the policy-level position of your management in the area of quality management system (QMS) and compliance with applicable regulations. There are two definitions of what a quality manual for an ISO 13485 QMS should be: ISO 10013, Guidelines for Developing Quality Manuals, element 4.2, gives detailed suggestions for creating a quality manual. It defines a quality manual, among other requirements, as a document that should “consist of, or refer to, the documented quality system procedures intended for planning and administration of activities which impact on quality”. ISO 13485:2003, element 4.2.2 requires a quality manual to include: 1 - your QMS scope 2 - details of and justification for any exclusion or non-application; 3 - references to the documented procedures; 4 - relationships between the processes of your quality management system. 5 - description of the QMS documentation. The scope of the QMS is usually located in the corresponding section of the quality manual (QM). It simply states what activities your company performs within the scope of your certification. For example: “My Company, Inc. designs, manufactures and distributes laser generators for cosmetic surgery applications” After we defined the scope and exclusions, let’s describe used processes and references to the corresponding procedures. As I found through my consulting and auditing work, the best way to start this step is to transform ISO 13485 standard from a set of applicable requirements into your company’s commitments to satisfy those requirements. For example: If element 7.1 requires that the company shall establish “?documented requirements for risk management?” our manual will state: “ABC Medical, Inc. has established and maintains documented procedure for risk management?. This process is documented in the Risk Analysis Procedure.” Following this simple method, we can address all the requirements of ISO 13485:2003 standard and reference procedures supporting corresponding elements of your manual and quality management system. So we will comply with two three requirements of the standard. Now we need to choose a method to document interactions between our processes. There are a few ways to do it. One typical method is to utilize Figure 1 in ISO 9001:2000 standard. This figure shows a model of a process-based QMS. In addition to that, referenced documents will show what processes relate to those listed in our quality manual. Some models are available on the Internet. Enter “process interaction matrix” into the search field of your Explorer and you will find your answers. The only requirement of the element 4.2.2 left is to describe the structure of your documentation. Some businesses I have consulted described their documentation tree as 4- or 5-level structure in the documentation management section of the manual. Now, when we addressed the requirements of ISO 13485:2003 standard for quality manual, consider this. A quality manual may become a strong marketing tool. It can tell your potential clients and vendors that your organization is not only a quality-conscious organization, but that it also realizes benefits of a well documented commitment to quality and compliance with regs. Surprisingly, many companies do not recognize this benefit. Those organizations mark their manuals with “internal use only” and “confidential” stamps, while those quality manuals can serve a company externally. We recommend to all our customers make their quality manuals public. One company I worked with, simply posted their quality manual on their Website ? go and look! About the Author:
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Quality Management-Quality Manual for Multi-Location Enterprises
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009|
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Small and medium size businesses with a single location that utilize ISO 9001 quality management system have developed solid models for the top level documentation. At the same time, information on quality manuals for multi-facility companies was not addressed in professional publications. This publication proposes a model of a quality manual for establishing the top-level documentation structure that allows a business with more than one site to use common ISO 9001 quality management system manual. Through my work as a Lead Auditor with major registrars, I observed dozens of large multi-location companies struggling with connecting their corporate ISO 9001 quality manuals with the supporting, location-specific, documents. To develop a quality manual for a company with numerous facilities, organizations take two routes. Some organizations create site-specific quality manuals as copies of the corporate manual; others create site-specific ISO 9001 quality manuals that are entirely different from the corporate manual. In reality, these solutions do not provide for a consistent representation of the organization’s position on quality. The first approach, when a copy of the home office quality manual is used, techniques for controlling local quality manuals are usually not determined. Differences in the corporate manual and the site’s quality manual are because the corporate office manuals are managed by the home office, while site’s manuals are controlled by individual sites. In the case of the second approach, when organizations allow their satellite locations to have their own quality manuals independent from the corporate manual, differences in quality manuals may create major disconnect of the corporate and local ISO 9001 quality manuals. From the corporate identity and simply business consistency points of view, an organization should not find itself in a position of having different or conflicting commitments of its facilities to quality, customer satisfaction, design approaches and other requirements of ISO 9001 standard. As an example, we can examine one of our international clients with facilities in the United States, Mexico and Europe. This organization established pretty complete quality manual for their corporate office in the US. When we visited their plant in Mexico, we found that their quality manual did not include reference to Canadian regulations; the facility in Italy did not address the design process, etc. Summarizing my consulting experiences, I am convinced that these approaches to design of the corporate quality manual and sites’ manuals do not provide a solid consistent way to document organization’s quality manuals. If a business wishes to establish a quality manual that will serve all its facilities, we need to consider a different route. Let’s start from an example of a clause 5.4.1, Planning, Quality objectives. This clause may state: ABC Corporation’s Management Team ensures that quality objectives, including those needed to meet requirements for product, are established for relevant functions and levels within the organization per the Management Review Procedure and the Quality Objectives Matrix. This method of referencing supporting procedures is very common for quality manuals for companies with single location. Interestingly, it also works for a multi-site business for those documents that are common for all sites. For instance, Audit Procedure, CAPA Procedure, and others may be the common for your all sites and be referenced in your quality manual as demonstrated in previous paragraph. While references to common procedures in an ISO 9001 quality manual are clear, we still have to address those documents that are specific to particular locations such as incoming inspection, org charts, product verification and others. When we wish to maintain just one quality manual, we need to reference in it supporting procedures for all sites which may easily clutter the manual. To solve this problem we will examine how a common quality manual can efficiently reference facility-specific procedures to address statements of the organization’s ISO 9001 quality manual. A method identical to a single-site organization can be used when the number of facilities is relatively small, let’s say 2 - 3. For example, clause 5.2, Customer focus, of our ISO 9001 quality manual may state: Your Company, Inc’s Management Team ensures that customer requirements are determined and met with the objective of enhancing customer satisfaction per the Design Management Procedure, Contract Review Procedure HO and the Contract Review Procedure SP. This example references to the common Design Management Procedure and facility-specific Contract Review Procedure HO (Home Office) and Contract Review Procedures SP (St. Petersburg). This approach works well for a company with limited number of locations, but it becomes unworkable when the number of facilities grows. If we need to work with a company that has significant number or offices and wishes to reference in the quality manual procedures controlled by its sites, we may take a different approach. For example, we can prepare a matrix to associate the corporate quality manual clauses with the site-specific procedures. We can name this tool Manual Reference Matrix and consider the following reference model: Corporate ISO 9001 Quality Manual clause Manual Reference Matrix Table of Contents (ToC) Facility Manual Reference Matrix Facility-specific document Our Manual Reference Matrix ToC is simply a list of company’s locations or sites’ Manual Reference Matrixes, as shown in the illustration below: Manual Reference Matrix Table of Contents Main Office (Washington, DC USA) Ontario (Canada) St. Petersburg (Russia) Guanajuato (Mexico) Port Williams (Chile) etc, To illustrate this model, let’s document element 5.5.1 of our corporate ISO 9001 quality manual with references to site-specific organizational charts: QW Enterprises, LLP’s Management Team ensures that the responsibilities and authorities are defined and communicated within the organization per the Resource Management Procedure and site-specific Organizational Charts per the Manual Reference Matrix ToC. This statement tells us that the company uses common Resources Management Procedure and site-specific organizational charts. To locate a site-specific organizational chart, we need to refer to the Manual Reference Matrix Table of Contents (ToC). Finding the location in the Matrix ToC and locating, let’s say, St. Petersburg’s Matrix, we will identify a site-specific Manual Reference Matrix. Locating a specific element in the location’s Manual Reference Matrix, we will find a particular, location-specific procedure title that addresses our clause. A Manual Reference Matrix may be formatted as a three-column form. The first two columns are titled Corporate Manual Section No. and Corporate References; the third column is called Location references. For the element 5.5.1, for example, the Matrix indicates that our manual references Organizational Chart HO for the corporate office and the Organizational Chart Ontario for the Ontario facility. If you are developing an ISO 9001 quality manual for a large corporation with multiple sites, check the links below for samples of Quality Manual Reference Matrix. About the Author:
If you are tuning up your ISO 9001 Quality Manual for a company with multiple locations and wish to keep your documentation simple, check our Quality Assurance Manual Reference Matrix. If you need help with implementation of your Corporate Manual, check our Quality Management ISO 9001 consulting services
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