In 2012 ANSI CEO Joe Bhatia testified before the US House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, and assured the Congress that all was well with both ANSI the organization and its’ two primary functions: standards development and conformity assessment oversight. As we know, both are entirely off the rails, and have been so for years.
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ISO has released the new standard ISO 17021-1 Conformity assessment — Requirements for bodies providing audit and certification of management systems. The standard replaces the previous ISO 17021 standard.
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Is it Time for a Class Action Lawsuit Against ISO 9001 Registrars?
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To test the theory that the IAQG isn’t really interested in allowing actual users of AS9100 join the ranks of those responsible for writing the standard, I thought I’d do what I usually do, and shove my head in the lion’s mouth so you don’t have to.
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It’s generally accepted in the quality profession that W. Edwards Deming’s “14 Points for the Transformation of Management” are considered a revolutionary way to view quality, and have been successfully used in major manufacturing organizations. Yet ISO 9001 has never much embraced Deming’s 14 points. The new ISO 9001:2015 standard had an opportunity to correct this, but did they? Let’s see how the new standard stacks up.
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