by PsyphaDeejay | Dec 6, 2013 | Archived, General, ISO 9001
To look at 3D Engineering’s website, you’d be excused for thinking that, with their impressive portfolio of clients, they had held ISO 9001 for many years. Surprisingly, a formal qualification is a new venture for them. Not that they didn’t have...
by PsyphaDeejay | Oct 25, 2013 | Archived, General, ISO 9001
Mark Sutton Non Ferrous is that rare thing, an enterprise using skills that are over three thousand years old, trading with major customers across the UK, and about to benefit from ISO9001 accreditation as an SME “punching above it’s weight” Someone from a...
by PsyphaDeejay | Oct 8, 2013 | Archived, General, ISO 9001
Many small businesses consider use of an ISO Consultant to be a luxury for larger enterprises. Certification would take too long, cost too much and not really benefit them at all, apart from a certificate on the wall and a large lever-arch file. Yet many of my...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
Part Four – Thatcher, Tebbit, and Enter BS5750.. Meanwhile in the UK, way before the characters ISO9001 had ever been linked together, our own manufacturing industry lost competitiveness at an exponential rate during the 1970s. Enter The Iron Lady, and her...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, Quality Management System
Part Three – Japan, Bikes, and Quality Management ISO 9001 wasn’t invented by consultants – there are specific reasons as to “how we got here”, along with some surprises. Remarkably, Japan used to have the reputation of producing cheap...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
Part Two – Manufacturing, Management and The Military. Armed Conflict changes a lot of things, and it led to the quality management system. Surprisingly, formal Quality Management emerged as an unexpected by-product of global warfare. Close to my home is the...
