Oxebridge Quality Resources - ISO 9001 and AS9100 Implementation

Winter Haven FL — Oxebridge Quality Resources, a leader in rapid, low-cost ISO 9001 implementations, is offering companies upgrade services to the latest ISO 9001 standard for a flat fee of $500. This service upgrades documentation to include and align with the clarified language of ISO 9001:2008.

While competing consultancies are offering expensive, time-consuming seminars, training courses and extended-contract upgrade services, Oxebridge recognizes that the ISO 9001:2008 standard is an “amendment”, not a revision, and that companies need do very little to maintain synchronicity with the new standard.

Under Oxebridge’s program, companies currently compliant or certified to ISO 9001:2000 may submit their documentation for updating with language aligning them to ISO 9001:2008. Specifically, Oxebridge updates:

• Quality Manual
• Top-level procedures
• Internal audit checklists

For more information on this upgrade service, click here.

Santa Clara CA — Metal finishing company Byington Steel, Inc. has received AS9100 certificate from NSF. The company provides quality heat treating services for aerospace and other industries, serving companies such as Boeing, Applied Materials and Northrup Grumman.

Oxebridge was called into Byington after the work of a previous consultant left them with existing major nonconformities. In response, Oxebridge provided a truncated version of its Rapid AS9100 Implementation Program, helping address the nonconformities while correcting the deficiencies — and inefficiencies — left behind by the previous consultant.

Within a few months, Byington was ready for audit by NSF, an ANAB accredited registrar of aerospace quality systems.

Byington steel’s next improvement effort will be to certify the company’s heat treat processes to the requirements of the National Aerospace and Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP).

For more information on Byington Steel, visit www.byingtonsteel.com.

For information on NSF’s aerospace certification programs, click here.

For more information on Oxebridge’s AS9100 implementation services, click here; for information on Oxebridge’s NADCAP preparation program, click here.

Pittsburgh PA — Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has released an official document comparing the requirements of the ISO 9001 with the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The document, entitled An Initial Comparative Analysis of the CMMI Version 1.2 Development
Constellation and the ISO 9000 Family, is available for free PDF download from SEI, using this link.

The document is the result of over four years of work by members of the US Technical Advisory Group to ISO Technical Committee 176 (TAG 176), the authors of ISO 9001, and others in the software engineering field.

Oxebridge played a small, if critical, role in the launching of this effort. At a TAG 176 meeting in August of 2005, Oxebridge VP Operations Christopher Paris proposed that the group work on a crosswalk document, to be officially released by ISO, which would assist companies that were struggling with the implementation of both ISO 9001 and CMMI. The idea was endorsed by Jack West, the Chairman of the TAG 176 at that time, and a formal breakout session arranged to begin planning the activity. Mr. Paris attended the first breakout session, but did not contribute in an active capacity as he did not have direct CMMI or software engineering experience. The group was led instead by Alka Jarvis, who now chairs the TAG 176, John Walz and Venkat Gopalan. Over the last four years, the major contributors of the document’s content shifted to Mr. Walz, alongside David Kitson, Robert Vickroy and Dave Wynn.

Ultimately the document was published by SEI, the developer of CMMI, and not ISO.