Annual ISO 9001 Conference Presents a Rogues Gallery of TAG Profiteers and Cronies
The latest ISO 9000 Conference is a rogues gallery of the worst TAG 176 cronies and insiders, nearly all of whom claim expertise they can’t possibly have.
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Author: Christopher Paris
Another US TAG 176 Member Wants to Hide From Constituents
Another US TAG member feels she shouldn’t be made public, despite having made herself a public face of the US TAG for at least a decade.
Read MoreThis Guy Summed Up the Problems in the ISO 9001 Scheme Back in 2002, and He’s Not Even in Quality
Just ran across this (hattip to user on LinkedIn) op-ed piece in a 2002 USAToday edition, by David Meister. He perfectly captured the source of the problems facing the ISO 9001 scheme: [The] problem of auditor independence is...
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Source: US Registrars Falsified ISO 9001 Certificate Totals in 2013
A source within a prominent North American certification body (CB) revealed to Oxebridge that it intentionally “spiked” the numbers of ISO 9001 certificates it issued in the US in 2013 by as much as 5,000, when reporting the data to ISO for its annual ISO Survey; the source indicated that another North American CB did likewise, to a lesser degree, but later corrected the figures for the 2014 data.
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What A Better Third-Party ISO 9001 Audit Might Look Like… and Cost
There is much discussion over whether the current third party conformity assessment structure is effective for ISO 9001 end users and their customers. So let’s spitball a little… what might a more robust audit program look like, and what would it cost end users?
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