DIN EN ISO 22163:2024-07

The text of ISO 22163:2023 has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 269 "Railway applications" of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and has been adopted as EN ISO 22163:2024 by Technical Committee CEN/TC 256 "Railway applications", the secretariat of which is held by DIN (Germany). The responsible German committee is Subcommittee NA 087-00-18-07 UA "Rail quality management system" at DIN Standards Committee Railway (FSF). The aim of this specifies the requirements for a railway quality management system (RQMS) - applicable throughout the whole supply chain of the railway sector related to industrial products and services, - providing continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and defect reduction in the supply chain, and - enhancing and sustaining product quality, including its safety aspects. The aim of this document is to develop and continually improve a railway quality management system to ensure product quality including safety in the global railway sector, in order to satisfy customer needs. This document adds the supplemental railway sector specific requirements to ISO 9001:2015. This document specifies the requirements for a railway quality management system (RQMS) - applicable throughout the whole supply chain of the railway sector related to industrial products and services, - providing continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and defect reduction in the supply chain, and - enhancing and sustaining product quality, including its safety aspects. This standard differs from DIN ISO/TS 22163 (DIN SPEC 5524):2018-01 as follows: a) the Scope has been simplified; b) Clause 3 "Terms and definitions" has been revised; c) the previous subclause 6.4 "Business planning" has been moved to 4.1.1; d) the new subclause 4.1.2 "Social responsibility" has been added; e) subclause 7.2.1 "Competence - Supplemental" has been revised; f) the previous subclause 8.11 "Innovation management" has been moved to 8.1.1.1; g) "Project review management" has been separated from the previous subclause 8.1.3.7 “Project communications management” and readded as the new subclause 8.1.3.11; h) the previous subclauses 8.1.4 "Configuration management" and 8.1.5 "Change management" have been merged into 8.1.4 “Configuration management and change control”; i) product safety requirements have been integrated with the quality requirements; j) reliability, availability, maintainability, safety and life cycle costing requirements have been clarified in 8.8; k) the term "performance indicator" has been differentiated from the term "key performance indicator"; l) the performance indicators have been revised; m) Annex A "List of processes" has been added; n) Annex B "Subordinate concept of requirements for products and services" has been added; o) Annex C "Performance indicators" has been added; p) the document has been editorially revised.