Ioan and Ahne,

Thanks for the viewpoints.

For Ioan, you talked of continuous improvement requirements. Totally agree
and so does ISO as first stated in section 5 though the authors call it
continual improvement. I'm glad to hear you practice CE.

For Ahne, I appreciate your stance concerning what I call rigidity and how
it obviously does nothing for the creative process. I agree with your other
assessment concerning creativity and I too feel it has its place especially
in an R&D environment. Once created, product development needs to be a bit
more formal - as indicated in 7.3.

For all, standards are what you make of them. Again, ISO doesn't tell anyone
how to do anything. It requires that certain things be done but it is up to
the user to make them work, or not, and how well. Use them wisely and
benifit. Don't use them and forget ISO registration of hope of achieving CPI
or DFM/CE. I really don't consider this an opinion but a simple reporting of
some success stories I have seen and helped create.


Thanks,

Earl

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