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Quality Manual	5 – Leadership
Section 5.1	Section Revision: B	Revision Date: 06/07/2022
5.1 – Leadership and Commitment
Approved By: Todd Gifford		Date: 06/07/2022

GENERAL POLICY

The executive management is ultimately responsible for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and improving the quality system. Management commitment is demonstrated by communicating to the organization the importance of meeting requirements, establishing the quality policy and quality objectives, conducting management reviews of the quality system, and ensuring the availability of necessary resources.

PROCEDURAL POLICIES

1. General

1.1 For the purpose of administrating the quality management system, executive management includes the President/CEO, Vice President-Sales, and Vice President-Operations, Vice President of IT, Vice President of Manufacturing, and Vice President of Finance.

1.2 Dee management has put in place procedures and system to ensure the effectiveness of the quality system such as management review, internal quality auditing, various and many alert and flagging systems, in process quality inspection data entry.  Proof of accountability is we put in systems to test the systems.  We are committed to continuously improving effectiveness assessment systems.

1.3 Dee management committed to Six Sigma quality principals.  With integration with six sigma into our processes, we utilize risk assessment via PFMEA, first article, etc.  We promote process orientation by process flow diagrams, flow charts, and other process oriented tools to manage our system.

1.4 Dee management engages, directs, and supports their employees to contribute to the effectiveness of the quality management system through various means such as various brainstorm meetings, the ability to request systematic and procedural updates, etc.

2. Customer Focus

2.1 Executive management is committed to communicate the importance of meeting customer as well as regulatory and legal requirements. The Management representative is responsible for implementing this commitment by promoting awareness of customer requirements throughout the organization.

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Revision History

Revision	Date	Description of Changes	Approved By
A	3/30/17	Initial Release	Dave Zirkelbach
B	6/7/2022	Update Management titles	Todd Gifford