Work Instructions

New ISO 9001 Standard

At the ASQ World Conference this month in Nashville, one of the most talked-about topics was the new standards that will be released soon for ISO 9000.

The short version is that there will be less emphasis on rigid tiers of types of documentation, and more emphasis to ensure that you really are doing things the way you documentation says you do them, and that your documentation accurately reflects the way that you actually do things.

The good news is that you will have more flexibility to use diverse formats for process documentation, thereby allowing you to choose from your many types of Systems2win Word and Excel templates for Standardized Work.

And the other good news is that the same Work Instructions template that has served as the foundation for so many of our customer's ISO 9000 documentation will continue to be the most popular choice for the new ISO 9001:2015.

In other words, if you have successfully been using your Systems2win templates for ISO 9001 in the past, then your world won't need to change too much as you lean forward into the future to comply with the newest revisions to the ever-changing ISO standards.

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Major Upgrade to Work Instructions template

The Work Instructions template that you are currently using will continue to work just fine for ISO 9001:2015.

In a project completely unrelated to ISO 9000...

one of our new customers recently commissioned us to add several new features to the Work Instructions template, and we added those features to base code, so you will get these new features the next time that you renew Annual Maintenance.

(and you can download the latest free trial to see how the new features work)

New Features

1) New 'Hide / Show Rows' button

allows you to maintain multiple items for a product family in a single workbook - instantly generating updates for all items with the click of a single button. 

In other words, when one step of your process changes, and that same step is shared by 12 of your 36 products in that product family (but not the other 24)...
you can click one button to update them all.

2) New button to 'Add Rows'

makes it easier for people who aren't that skilled with Excel commands

3) Add a Header Row for a Page Break

When you click the button to 'Add Rows', you have the choice of adding a regular data row, or a 'Header Row for a Page Break'

That header row will span all 4 columns, and will appear at the top of the page (at your specified page break location),

and that header row can be formatted using everything you know about Excel (and pictures) — thereby allowing you MUCH greater flexibility to communicate potentially complex instructions.

4) More ways to handle long instructions

In addition to increasing cell size, linking to related documents (or videos), and referring to long comments in the Comments text boxes at the top and bottom of the document...

it is now easy to insert a text box to make optimal use of all the space available on your page - including previously unused white space near large images.

5) Larger images

Images can now be even larger.

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for so many years