IRIS International Railway Industry Standard

International Railway Industry Standard is based on ISO9001 and has over and above ISO 9001 some major requirements:

Railway specific elements are highlighted in red colour

0     Foreward

1    Scope

2    Normative reference

3    Terms and definitions

4    Quality Management System

4.1    General Requirements

4.2    Documentation Requirements

4.3    Knowledge Management

4.4    Management of Multi Site Projects

5        Mangement responsibility

5.1    Management Commitment

5.2    Customer Focus

5.3    Quality Policy

5.4    Planning

5.5    Responsibility, Authority & Communication

6    Resource Management

6.1    Provision of Resource

6.2    Human Resource

6.3    Infrastructure

6.4    Work Environment

7    Product Realization

7.1    Planning

7.2    Customer Related Proces

7.3    Tender Management

7.4    Project Mangement

7.5    Design & Development

7.6    Configuration Management

7.7    Purchasing

7.8    Production & Service Provision

7.9    Commissioning & Customer Service

7.10   RAMS/LCC  (acronym for Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC)

8    Mesurement, Analysis & Improvement

8.1    General

8.2    Monitoring & Measurement

8.3    Control of Nonconforming Products

8.4    Control of Nonconforming Processes

8.5    Analysis of Data

8.6    Improvement

As gainst 6 Procedures to be documented for ISO9001,  IRIS requires 13 Procedures to be documented

As against 3 Process in ISO 9001, 19 Processes are required for IRIS

ome of the more specific requirements are:-

Knowledge Management

Management of Multi Sites Projects

Requirement Management

Competence,Awareness and Training

Infrastructure Management

Tender Management

Integration Management

Scope Management

Time Management

Cost Management

Communication Management

Risk and Opportunity Management

Change Management

First Article Inspection

Configuration Management

Outsourcing (Make or Buy)

Supply Chain Management

Commissioning / Customer Service

RAMS / LCC

Control of Nonconforming Processes