LCX Systems is a provider of mission management systems and flight management software for military, homeland security, law enforcement, search & rescue and firefighting.

Receipt of the final AS9100 Rev. C certification is expected within a few weeks, pending paperwork and processing by ISOQAR. ISOQAR is internationally accredited to conduct AS9100 and ISO 9001 conformity assessments by ANAB.

For more information on LCX, visit the company’s website at www.lcxsystems.com.

For information on ISOQAR, visit www.isoqarinc.com.

For more information on Oxebridge’s Rapid AS9100 Implementation programs, click here.

SWCC certifies small wind turbines against international standards for performance, to ensure confidence in the design and power output claims made by turbine manufacturers. With SWCC certification, consumers and stakeholders can gain greater confidence that the certified small turbines have been tested for safety, function, performance and durability and meet requirements of consensus standards. SWCC certification helps prevent unethical marketing and false claims, ensuring consumer protection and industry credibility.

ISO/IEC Guide 65 is the international standard applicable to organizations that certify products.

SWCC was contracted by Oxebridge for ISO Guide 65 Implementation as part of a pilot program by Oxebridge, which had been seeking potential certification bodies for its new program. SWCC is the first client to have undergone the Oxebridge implementation, and the organization achieved its A2LA accreditation on the first attempt.

For more information on the Small Wind Certification Council, visit www.smallwindcertification.org.

For more information on A2LA, visit www.A2LA.org.

For information on Oxebridge’s ISO Guide 65 Implementation Program, click here.

Boxwood claims to be a “trusted career center provider for associations” which has “generated $300 million in non-dues revenue via our outsourced job board technology and other career-related services.”

In May 2012, Boxwood sent unsolicited emails to past users of the ASQ Career Center, using a marketing tactic known as “false familiarity” in which the sender alleges to have tried to have made personal contact with the recipient, implying that email is only the result of that personal effort having failed; in truth, the company does not ordinarily make any first contact with the recipient at all.

From one such email, sent by Boxwood’s Sherry Yousefi, received by Oxebridge on May 15th:

I am sorry that we were unable to connect via telephone today. I am the advisor for the ASQ Career Center, here to help you fill your open positions through ASQ.

The company had not actually attempted to contact anyone at Oxebridge by phone, or through any other means. The return email address for Ms. Yousefi was for a boxwoodtech.com domain, not ASQ.

Boxwood was the subject of a 2010 online complaint, when a computer user, who was investigating his system for spyware, discovered an unauthorized credit card transaction by Boxwood for $150:

I looked up Boxwood Tech on the web, and they’re some kind of job resource site. So I called them to see what could have gotten purchased, and it turns out they sell batches of people’s emails to people who want to do email blasts. What a scammy site. Someone had bought two email batches on my card.

The Boxwood website indicates that the company is offers “private-labeled, robust job board and career center technology that seamlessly integrates into existing association websites.”

Our job board technology allows you to generate significant non-dues revenue and satisfy members with a popular benefit that’s easy to deliver.

In the past, ASQ has used bulk emails to promote various services, but it was not clear if third party organizations were used to do so.

Oxebridge has not used the ASQ Career Center resource since 2008, and no Oxebridge employee is a current member of ASQ, indicating that Boxwood is mining old data to source its spam list.

At some point, ASQ modified its online Privacy Policy to specifically address the Career Center issue. The policy, as of May 2012, now reads:

If you supply your personal information to an ASQ partner, such as a training provider or the Career Center, please be aware that ASQ no longer has control over the use of your personal information. We will not knowingly partner with companies that abuse personal information. However, be aware that our partner companies may contact you if you choose to conduct business with them.

Despite the phrase “conduct business with them,” the ASQ Career Center website (here and here) does not indicate in any fashion that it is operated by any organization other than ASQ itself, except for a statement that the job search feature is “powered by Boxwood Technology.”

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DumbAS9100 is a 39-page, in-depth walkthrough of every AS9100C clause, told with biting sarcasm and over-the-top humor that is bound to offend, enlighten, offend and even offend.

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• 4.2.2 The Ubiquitous Quality Manual, or “How to Suck the Joy Out of Admiring Airplanes”
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• 5.6.1 Management Review: Prelude to an Afternoon of the Fawning
• 7.3.3 Design & Development Outputs: Stuff You Need to Make Your Desk Look Busy
• 7.5.1.2 Control of Production Process Changes: Change is Inevitable, But So Is Stagnation
• 7.5.5 Preservation of Product, and Your Career
• 8.5.2 Corrective Action: The Suggestion Box Gone Amok

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Below is a list of new or modified requirements in the AS9110 B standard, as compared to the Rev. A version. this does not include changes to Notes, definitions, non-substantive typo corrections, or any other change that does not constitute a new or modified “shall clause.”

4.2.3.h: New requirement to report incomplete or ambiguous technical data to the customer and/or author.

5.6.2.h: New requirement that management review include product safety issues; review of audits removed.

6.4: Human factors added to requirements for managing infrastructure

7.1.4: New requirement limiting transfer of work only “in a manner acceptable to customers and authorities.”

7.2.2: Added requirement “org shall use technical data at the contractually specified revision or at the latest revision, if not specified.”

7.4.2.k: Fixed significant typo: organization will flow down requirements for the supplier’s delivery documentation (not “organization’s”).

7.4.2.l: Added requirements for reporting “product malfunctions.”

7.5.1.o: Changed requirement that equipment be “recommended by the manufacturer” to “recommended by the technical data.”

7.5.2: Special processes must now also comply with the requirements of the applicable technical data issued by the design approval holder.

7.6: New requirement that the selection of M&M equipment will consider the technical data.

8.2.1: Improvement plans must be consistent with safety policy and objectives

8.2.3.b: Evaluation of nonconforming process must consider safety and reliability.

8.2.4: Sampling inspection may only be used if compatible with the technical data provided by the design approval holder.

8.2.4: New rules on signing release certificate.

8.3: Additional rule that organization cannot scrap customer property unless authorized.