by PsyphaDeejay | Mar 14, 2014 | Archived, General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
If you are selling fabricated structural steel products into construction, you need to know about new EEC legislation, including BS 1090-1 and BS 1090-2, before the new legislation blocks you from the market. Yes, it’s that serious. And no, it’s not yet...
by PsyphaDeejay | Jan 3, 2014 | Archived, General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
In our previous blog, we looked at the advantages of having a formal Quality Management System, such as those found in ISO standards like ISO 9001 In my on-going campaign to simplify the often over-complicated world of standards, I’ve summed up the functions in...
by PsyphaDeejay | Jan 3, 2014 | Archived, General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
ISO management system standards have now been impacting on the UK business community for over 25 years, yet there remains an air of mystery around even the common standards like ISO 9001 One term misunderstood is Quality Management System or QMS. Most companies have...
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...
