Quality Manual including a facility layout and configuration? (dry-cast concrete)

vmedani

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I'm working on a quality manual for my company and I keep getting caught up one particular point. The auditor checklist from the certifying organization has a checkpoint as follows:
"Facility Components:
1. Plant Layout
2. Configuration
3. Location"

What I'm not clear on with this is exactly what is expected or what a minimum requirement is or how detailed it would be. Does it need to include CAD drawings of the plant layouts? Does it need to just show a satellite picture of the facility with buildings labeled?

My gut tells me that engineering drawings of the plants is a bit more than is expected or required but I haven't been able to find any comparable examples to pull from on this.
 

Miner

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Your best bet would be to ask your auditor for their expectation. I suspect that all that is required is a high-level drawing that shows what type of operation is performed in each area, shipping/receiving locations, storage, MRB area, etc. No need to show actual equipment or dimensions. This probably to help the auditor plan the areas they wish to focus on.
 

Golfman25

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I'm working on a quality manual for my company and I keep getting caught up one particular point. The auditor checklist from the certifying organization has a checkpoint as follows:
"Facility Components:
1. Plant Layout
2. Configuration
3. Location"

What I'm not clear on with this is exactly what is expected or what a minimum requirement is or how detailed it would be. Does it need to include CAD drawings of the plant layouts? Does it need to just show a satellite picture of the facility with buildings labeled?

My gut tells me that engineering drawings of the plants is a bit more than is expected or required but I haven't been able to find any comparable examples to pull from on this.
Other than the checklist, where is the requirement? ISO 7.1.3 Infrastructure would be the closest. Certainly doesn't have to be part of your quality manual. We have a reasonably detailed layout in a cad drawing we use when we want to move stuff around.
 

vmedani

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What standard are you getting certified to?
The organization is Concrete Masonry and Hardscape Association and they don't specify any particular standard as a requirement, only citing ASTM standards for product specifications. I'm trying to arrange things along the lines of what I'm familiar with and what is applicable from ISO 9001 but so many of the "requirements" read as suggestions that I'm left scratching my head on how to approach it.
 
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