Truke KF can be a powerful tool to help companies (small ones included) implement and maintain ISO 9001, because it directly supports many of the standard’s core requirements through its features.
ISO 9001 emphasizes managing an organization through well-defined processes. KF’s “action” items (representing tasks, processes, functions) allow you to document each business process, its steps, inputs/outputs, responsibilities, and link them hierarchically or by precedence. This supports:
You can use item inheritance to define standard processes (types) and then instantiate them for specific projects or situations.
ISO 9001 explicitly requires organizations to maintain knowledge critical to operations. KF is built around that concept. With KF you can:
This means your company keeps growing its internal “brain” instead of repeating mistakes.
KF's support for objects and components allows you to define the structure of products and services. For product design companies, this fulfills the need to:
ISO 9001 encourages a proactive approach to risk and opportunities. KF supports this beautifully:
Even opportunities (negative severity) can be documented and assessed, encouraging continuous improvement.
Every issue (event), its causes, and resolutions can be tracked and reused. This helps:
KF supports traceability through its structured linking of actions, documents, and events. You can:
KF uses markdown for documentation, which is simple yet structured. Items can:
You can establish document types and templates as reusable items, ensuring consistency.
KF avoids bureaucracy by being lightweight yet powerful. You don’t need complex systems to comply with ISO 9001—you just need to:
KF supports all of that in a natural way.
This table aligns key ISO 9001:2015 clauses with the relevant KF features.
| ISO 9001:2015 Clause | Requirement Summary | How KF Supports It |
|---|---|---|
| 4.4 – Process approach | Define, implement, and manage business processes | Use action items to define tasks/processes; structure them with components and precedence; visualize them in Gantt charts |
| 5.1.1 – Leadership and commitment | Ensure QMS is integrated into business | KF helps managers oversee and improve quality-critical processes and share knowledge widely |
| 6.1 – Actions to address risks & opportunities | Proactive risk-based thinking | Use event items to model risks, failures, and opportunities with impact/probability scoring; visualize with risk matrices |
| 6.2 – Quality objectives | Set measurable goals | Represent goals as actions with KPIs, track them as part of projects or plans |
| 7.1.6 – Organizational knowledge | Maintain and make available knowledge | Core feature: KF is a knowledge management system. Reuse knowledge via types; document everything from design to failure |
| 7.5 – Documented information | Control and structure of documents | Markdown-based document items, with attachments, linking, hierarchy, versioning, and inheritance |
| 8.1 – Operational planning | Plan and control operations | Combine actions, objects, and events to plan production or services. Embed procedures, workflows, BOMs |
| 8.3 – Design and development | Design inputs, outputs, changes | Document objects (products, components), associate with design actions, log changes, link to events (issues) |
| 8.4 – Control of external providers | Manage suppliers | Model suppliers as objects or documents, and associate related processes and risks |
| 9.1 – Monitoring and measurement | Evaluate process and product performance | Embed monitoring checkpoints as action items with outcomes, risks, or measurements attached |
| 9.2 – Internal audit | Plan and carry out audits | Use action plans and event records to organize and track audits, findings, and corrective actions |
| 9.3 – Management review | Review QMS at planned intervals | Use KF to compile summaries of processes, risks, changes, and lessons learned |
| 10.2 – Nonconformity and corrective action | Address failures and prevent recurrence | Log problems as events, trace causes with fault trees, define corrective actions, and prevent recurrence through types |
| 10.3 – Continual improvement | Enhance QMS performance | All learnings, actions, and improvements are preserved and reused in KF; improvements emerge organically from usage |