Product Conformity Assessment within the Integrated Management System: Manufacturing Compliance and Customer Safety

Proceedings of the 22nd World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2018), Vol.3 2018
Svetlana Mjakuškina, Inga Lapiņa

In the frame of the globalisation economical operators who place the products on the market are facing new challenges in ensuring the compliance of the products. The aim of the research is to analyse the applicability of the integrated management system as a platform for development of possible solutions to improve business processes and ensure compliance of the non-food products made available on the market. The effectiveness of the existing conformity assessment system is evaluated through statistical analysis of unsafe product notifications in the Rapid Alert System and a case study of a compliance assessment for electrical appliances placed on the European Union market. The main findings are: (1) a correlation between the applicable conformity assessment procedure and non-compliant products; (2) the product compliance with essential requirements does not depend on whether the declaration of conformity has or has not been correctly drawn up and whether the product is covered by a test report. Several research methods such as analysis of academic and professional publications, logical and comparative analysis of regulations and binding documents, statistics on product compliance, and survey analysis are applied in this research.

Keywords
product safety, conformity assessment, compliance evaluation, integrated management systems, RAPEX
Hyperlink
http://www.iiis.org/CDs2018/CD2018Summer/papers/SA615PP.pdf

Mjakuškina, S., Lapiņa, I. Product Conformity Assessment within the Integrated Management System: Manufacturing Compliance and Customer Safety. In: Proceedings of the 22nd World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (WMSCI 2018), Vol.3, United States of America, Orlando, 8-11 July, 2018. Winter Garden, Florida: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (IIIS), 2018, pp.19-24. ISBN 978-1-941763-83-4. e-ISBN 978-1-941763-90-2.

Publication language
English (en)