Internal Quality Auditing, Second Edition

Internal Quality Auditing, Second Edition, provides an in-depth overview of auditing, with a special focus on auditing skills for ISO 9001:2008. Author William A. Stimson has put together perhaps the most comprehensive auditing handbook available. This book provides keen insight into what to audit for and how to be an effective and efficient auditor. He also addresses ISO 9004:2009 and how it might (and might not) affect your auditing. With William A. Stimson's help you'll learn to:

• Understand the entire audit process
• Make the most of pre-audits
• Utilize different audit techniques
• Have meaningful audit opening and closing meetings
• Write effective audit reports
• Maintain post-audit momentum
• Use ISO 9001 and ISO 9004 as improvement tools
• Audit management responsibility
• And much more!

About the Author
Author William A. Stimson, Ph.D., is a certified quality auditor and consultant in ISO 9001 requirements, statistical process control, and quality management. He has more than 30 years' experience in industry, 20 of them as an engineer and manager. This experience includes the design and development of automatic control systems for spacecraft and for industrial applications, and project and functional management of test and evaluation groups. In addition, Stimson spent 10 years as a lead auditor with the U.S. Navy responsible for the qualification of defense contractors and shipyards under Mil-Q-9858.