Sunday, June 28, 2020

ISO 13485:2016 MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT - PART 2

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In our previous blogs we have seen about CLAUSE 4, CLAUSE 5, CLAUSE 6, CLAUSE 7, CLAUSE 8. Please check out for the links given below.

CLAUSE 4

CLAUSE 5

CLAUSE 6

CLAUSE 7 - PART 1

CLAUSE 7 - PART 2

CLAUSE 8 - PART 1

Today we are going to see about CLAUSE 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 of ISO 13485;2016. 

Let’s get into the topic with a small introduction about ISO 13485;2016.

WHY ISO 

13485:2016?

ISO 13485:2016 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organisation needs to demonstrate its ability to provide medical devices and related services that constantly meet customer and applicable regulatory requirements. Such organisations can be involved in Design & Development of Medical Device, Production, Storage  and Distribution, Installation and Servicing of Medical Device or provision for other associated activities (eg: Technical Support).


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CLAUSE 8 MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS 

AND IMPROVEMENT

It is divided into following sub clauses.

CLAUSE 8.1 General

CLAUSE 8.2 Monitoring and measurement

CLAUSE 8.3 Control of non-conforming product

CLAUSE 8.4 Analysis of data

CLAUSE 8.5 Improvement


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In our previous blog CLAUSE 8 - PART 1 we have discussed about clause 8.1 and 8.2. Now we are going to see clause 8.3, 8.4, 8.5.

CLAUSE 8.3 Control of non-conforming product

It is divided into following sub clauses.

Clause 8.3.1 General

1. Discuss the prevention of unintended delivery or use of non-conforming products.

2. Explain how you intend to prevent unintended product delivery or use.

3. Avoid the unintended delivery or use of your non-conforming products.

4. Keep record of your organizations non-conforming products activities.

CLAUSE 8.3.2 Actions in response to non-conforming product detected before delivery

1. Deal with non-conforming products before delivery.

2. Take actions to eliminate detected non-conformities.

3. Prevent products original intended use or application.

4. Authorize non-conforming products use, release or acceptance.

CLAUSE 8.3.3 Actions in response to non-conforming product detected after delivery

1. Recognize non-conforming products after delivery or after use.

2. Act as appropriate to counter the effects that have been identified.

3. Develop and keep a record of actions that have been taken.

4. Explain how company’s advisory notices should be released and managed.

5. Keep a record of actions taken when advisory notices are issued.

Clause 8.3.4 Rework

1. Explain how product rework should be performed.

2. Clarify how product rework should be verified.

3. Clarify how product rework should be reviewed.

4. Clarify how product rework should be approved.

5. Clarify how product rework should be recorded.

CLAUSE 8.4 Analysis of data

Elaborates analytical requirements as following

1. Plan how your organization is going to evaluate its QMS.

2. Establish procedures to evaluate organizations QMS.

3. Utilize analytical results to improve organizations QMS.

CLAUSE 8.5 Improvement

It is divided into following sub clauses.

CLAUSE 8.5.1 General

1. Recognize any changes that are necessary for improvement.

2. Recognize any changes that maintain QMS stability, adequacy and effectiveness.

3. Recognize any changes that are needed to ensure medical device safety and performance.

4. Initiate changes that must be made.

CLAUSE 8.5.2 Corrective action

1. Document corrective action procedure.

2. Explicate how actual problems will be investigated.

3. Explain how corrective actions will be developed.

4. Explain how corrective actions will be verified.

5. Explain how corrective actions will be taken.

6. Explain how corrective actions will be reviewed.

7. Implement organizations corrective action procedure.

8. Keep records of corrective actions made.

CLAUSE 8.5.3 Preventive action

1. Document preventive action procedure.

2. Explicate how actual problems will be investigated.

3. Explain how preventive actions will be developed.

4. Explain how preventive actions will be verified.

5. Explain how preventive actions will be taken.

6. Explain how preventive actions will be reviewed.

7. Implement organizations preventive action procedure.

8. Keep records of preventive actions made.

IMPORTANT 

TERMINOLOGIES

Correction: Occurs when you discover a problem and implement an immediate fix to allow the work to continue.

Corrective action: Discovers the root cause and correct it to prevent the problem from occurring again in the future.

Preventive action: Correct the root cause of potential non conformity. It means when a worker judges some problem in the process and correct it before that process can create non conformity. That problem can be a root cause for various defects.

 

Now I hope you have acquired some knowledge about CLAUSE 8 in ISO 13485:2016. We will see in detail about different topic related to healthcare in our next blog.

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