Author: Christopher Paris

Fact-Checking Daryl Guberman’s ARM9009 “Firearms Standard” Claims

The Daryl Guberman / IndustrialPR Net machine is in full swing in the past two months, pushing a newly created certification scheme called ARM9009, purporting to be for firearm manufacturers. There’s a problem though: the claims being made by Guberman and friends appear to range from highly distorted representations to absolute falsehoods. Let’s look at some of them.

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The Future is Risky: How Risk Sellers Have Usurped the Quality Profession

Quality has always been a profession lacking in unity and vision. With rare exceptions, few rock stars have emerged to drive quality forward, and nearly none since the retirements of Crosby and Juran. We have watched our profession waft from fence post to fence post, pausing only temporarily on “the next big thing,” such as quality circles, statistical process control, Lean, Six Sigma, and ISO 9001. Nowadays, the loudest salesman is often the only voice left in quality. So it’s not a surprise that ISO caved to the newest, loudest salesman: the risk sellers.

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