I am preparing a large piece on the unaccredited registrars, but this one couldn’t wait. A Lead Auditor with QualityMasters, an unaccredited certificate mill out of the Netherlands, has been making quite a fuss at LinkedIn...
Read MoreIAQG’s Registration Management Committee (RMC) is circulating a sudden revision to AS9101, the rules for auditing under AS9100. The Rev. E draft takes into consideration some market realities pushed by the CB’s and...
Read MoreGoing through the old database, I found this gem from July, 2001. Warning against “The Sudden Experts” — those consultants who claimed expertise on a standard that hadn’t even been released yet —...
Read MoreI’ll have another piece shortly on the rise of the unaccredited certificate mills in AS9100, but in researching that, I came across a shockingly dumb oversight by IAQG which basically handed the keys to the con men. First,...
Read More(Part 1 of this article can be found here.) Continuing on the top 10 mistakes made by ISO 9001 consultants, in no particular order: 6.) Training the client to be a consultant. Consultants often don’t realize that by...
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