Archive for the ‘ISO 9000’ Category

Jump right in audit (with or without procedures)

16th February 2009 by Ed No Comments

All successful businesses have a quality system which may or may not be documented. A Jump Right In Audit is the perfect way to get started.

When ISO Compliance works

16th February 2009 by Ed 2 Comments

As a supplier quality auditor, I have been seeing a few small companies that claim to be ISO compliant vs. ISO certified.
Being ISO Compliant is the first step to being Certified. It means that those companies have a documented Quality System in place and they are following it according to the ISO 9000 requirements.   So [...]

ISO 9000:2008

13th January 2009 by Ed 3 Comments

Last week I attended an update on the changes to the standard.  Step by step we reviewed the changes.  Many times there were interpretation issues followed by discussion. In the end, it was concluded that it would be up to the ISO 9000 Assessors  to interpret the standard. This took me back to the my [...]