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AJL Heavy Equipment Gains ISO 9001 Certification of its QMS

AJL Heavy Equipment Gains ISO 9001 Certification of its QMS

Evahan assisted the programmed and reactive repairs and maintenance provider for prime movers, truck trailers, petroleum tankers and other heavy transport vehicles with the ISO 9001 certification of its QMS

Posted 29 June 2022

AJL Heavy Equipment Tabker and Toll Wharf

Evahan Assists AJL Heavy Equipment Gain ISO 9001 Certification of Its QMS

Evahan assisted AJL Heavy Equipment with the inaugural ISO 9001 Certification of its Quality Management System (QMS). AJL provides programmed and reactive repairs and maintenance for a wide range of mobile and stationary heavy equipment across five customer segments of dangerous goods storage (petroleum), transport, mining, forestry, and stevedoring. The equipment includes trucks, prime movers, petroleum tankers, shipping containers lift trucks and log skidders across its three locations: Burnie, Tasmania, East Devonport, Tasmania and in Truganina Victoria.

Evahan Managing Director and Principal Consultant, Jason Bresnehan, led AJL's senior management team through Evahan's propriety 27 Element QMS Framework to:

Design, develop, document, implement and evaluate its QMS
Prepare the company for the inaugural ISO 9001 Certification of its QMS
Implement of a program of QMS continual improvement

The 27 Element QMS Framework consisting of over 150 analysis and action points checks was applied for:

Scoping - assess and investigate the size of the project and provide a fixed price services fee proposal setting out Evahan's approach
Gap Analysis - analyze existing working flow, quality systems and quality gates so that they could be leveraged to avoid "reinventing the wheel" and reduce project costs by focusing on closing the gaps and making value-adding improvements
DDDECCI - Design, Development, Documentation, Evaluation, Certification management and Continuous Improvement activities

Challenges Navigated by Evahan
Challenges navigated by Evahan:

Regulated environment including The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) set of laws for heavy vehicles over 4.5 tonnes gross vehicle mass. This set of laws consists of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (HVNL)* and five sets of regulations. Australia's Safe Load Program for the transportation of fuels including Petroleum and Oil,
As a first time ISO 9001 certification, the company did not have a quality nomenclature, naming convention or digital storage systems capable of efficiently controlling the creation, storage and retrieval of QMS documentation
A requirement to work within the checklists and procedures of multi-national customers with Australia wide fleets, and also the procedures of service equipment OEMs, such as the brake fitting and testing machine

Project Outcomes and Value Added by Evahan
Evahan achieved the following outcomes for AJL Heavy Equipment.

Inaugural ISO 9001:2015 Certification of its Quality Management System
A precise and clear QMS language and nomenclature creating work environment efficiencies, enhancing communication, team member collaboration and critical thinking
Increase in and improvement upon practical quality gates to manage the businesses inputs, processes and outputs
Improved upon the quality culture with particular reference to risk-based thinking, root cause analysis, calibration of measurement tools, nonconformance management and continuous improvement management

Looking to reduce waste, increase customer satisfaction and drive profitability though the implementation of an ISO 9001 conforming Quality Management System? Contact Evahan Managing Director and Principal Consultant Jason Bresnahan to explore how we can support your QMS design, development, documentation and implementation as well as your ISO 9001 Certification or Recertification.