5. Work Process
1) Corrective and preventive action's occurrence
When nonconformity occurs, corrective and preventive actions can be taken to correct it.
When needed, ask suppliers for corrective actions.
2) Request for corrective and preventive actions
Request for corrective and preventive actions can be drafted in every department.
Specify who, what, when, where, why, and how in the request.
A request for corrective and preventive actions can be drafted for following situations/ items.
(1) Nonconformity on customer complaints
(2) Nonconformity pointed out by the internal audit
(3) for continuing defective products
(4) items needed to correct nonconformity
(5) Other nonconformities
3) Receipt of request for corrective and preventive action
Quality department registers the request for corrective and preventive actions in the control list
upon receipt of it.
4) Review
Review the request for corrective and preventive actions and reject the request for following cases.
(1) when the request for corrective and preventive action is not valid or when the corrective and
preventive action is not able to be taken
(2) when the request for corrective and preventive action is considered as revenge among Dept.
5) Collected Report
The head of quality control department collect all the request for corrective and preventive actions
and report them to the President on a monthly basis.
6) Distribution to related departments
Classify the reviewed request for corrective and preventive actions by department.
Ask each department to establish countermeasures. .
Distribution of request for corrective and preventive actions
7) Establishment of countermeasures
(1) A head of department asked to establish countermeasures should verify noncomformity,
analyze the cause, and establish countermeasures.
(2) Temporary countermeasures and fundamental countermearues should be prepared separately
8) Execution of countermeasures
(1) Classify countermeasures by countermeasure issues, by person in charge, and by schedule,
and execute each countermeasure respectively.
(2) After execution of countermeasures, re-evaluate the countermeasures and check for
recurrence of noncomformity.