by OQRI | Dec 13, 2018 | News
In 2013, a blowout preventer (BOP) exploded on an oil rig operated by Hercules Offshore, in an accident that shared some similarities with the BOP explosion that caused the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster. In the case of Hercules Offshore, the rig was pumping natural...
by OQRI | Dec 12, 2018 | News
Representatives of both the Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) have refused to respond to queries regarding the growing scandals related to Japanese companies falsifiying product testing data, which has resulted in...
by OQRI | Dec 10, 2018 | News
Paul Simpson, the incoming Chair o ISO TC 176 Subcommittee 2 (SC2) has launched a public LinkedIn discussion group, and users of ISO 9001 can communicate directly with the TC leadership. SC2 is responsible for the development of ISO 9001 and ISO 9004. The group is...
by OQRI | Dec 5, 2018 | News
As part of the company’s new “Solution Series” of White Papers, Oxebridge has released a proposal for a “Collaborative Standards Development Model.” The report has already been provided to the ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica and ISO...
by OQRI | Dec 4, 2018 | News
In 2017, Seiler Instruments and Manufacturing Co. (St. Louis MO) was charged by the US Dept. of Justice for violations of the Buy American Act when it used Chinese-made optics in weapons sights then sold to the US military. In addition, the US DOJ found Seiler had...
by OQRI | Dec 4, 2018 | News
The US accreditation body ANAB has announced that ANSI has taken over sole ownership, as former co-owner ASQ has sold its ownership stake. ASQ has co-owned ANAB since 2005, when the Registrar Accreditation Board (RAB) was split into the ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation...
by OQRI | Dec 1, 2018 | News
The United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS) is at the heart of a scandal whereby two UK forensics labs were found to have manipulated test data, affecting tens of thousands of victims. The scandal has seen the arrest of employees of two...
by OQRI | Dec 1, 2018 | News
In September, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cited the Canadian firm Cardiomed Supplies Inc. with multiple regulatory violations, including serious basic deficiencies of the company’s quality management system (QMS). Despite this, Cardiomed continues...
by OQRI | Nov 30, 2018 | News
A French court has ordered the certification body TUV Rheinland to pay $2,082,000 in damages to women who were injured by defective breast implants sold by Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), an organization that TUV had certified under the European “CE Mark”...
by OQRI | Nov 28, 2018 | News
The certification body BSI granted CE Mark product certification for a spinal implant medical device that is now reported to be dissolving inside the bodies of patients, forcing them to have additional spinal surgeries. In addition, the resulting investigation has led...
by OQRI | Nov 9, 2018 | News
In 2016, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the World Bank signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) which enables the international financial group to push ISO products on at-risk, developing nations as a part of loan repayment...
by OQRI | Nov 6, 2018 | News
The latest revision of the ISO 19011 standard on Guidelines for Auditing Management Systems stripped out language that required auditors to comply with applicable laws of their auditee clients. Clause 4 of the standard, entitled “Principles of Auditing”...
by OQRI | Nov 2, 2018 | News
The accreditation body Japan Accreditation Board (JAB) is the single point of failure for multiple high-profile scandals. Japan has been rocked by multiple high-profile manufacturing scandals and product recalls, most related to the companies intentionally falsifying...
by OQRI | Oct 31, 2018 | News
The IAF has begun a branding push for its planned universal database of ISO certifications, announcing it will be named “IAF CertSearch.” The announcement was made to the certification body (CB) community a month ago, with more details coming out from...
by OQRI | Oct 19, 2018 | News, Site Admin
Oxebridge has launched its merchandise and products website at www.oxebridge.biz. The first products released by the company are a set of off-beat FOD posters for use by AS9100 user organizations and aerospace companies. The site features links to Oxebridge Quality...
by OQRI | Oct 16, 2018 | News
[This story is breaking; check back for updates.] Oxebridge has learned that ISO is reconvening its Technical Management Board (TMB) Joint Technical Coordination Group to conduct a two-year revision to Annex SL, the controversial document that acts as the structural...
by OQRI | Oct 15, 2018 | News
A former member of a medical device committee representing the US to ISO Technical Committee 210, which authors the ISO 13485 standard, is at the center of an FDA investigation for having released “adulterated” medical products. Frank Bernardo, listed as...
by OQRI | Oct 11, 2018 | News
Two employees at the Corpus Christi Army Depot were arrested on charges they knowingly falsified repair data on UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters, allowing nonconforming rotor blades to pass inspection. At the same time as the falsifications were underway, CDAC held AS9110...
by OQRI | Oct 10, 2018 | News
The highest court in France has found the ISO registrar TUV Rheinland culpable in the Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP) breast implant scandal that has shaken Europe. PIP was found to have used subpar industrial-grade silicone in the implants, rather than more expensive...
by OQRI | Oct 10, 2018 | News
A Chinese national has been extradited to the US and arrested as part of a Federal criminal investigation of the theft of trade secrets held by aerospace manufacturer GE Aviation in Ohio. Yanjun Xu was indicted by a US grand jury and arrested in Belgium, and later...
by OQRI | Oct 6, 2018 | News
A study by a government-funded research team found that risk-based audits of UK healthcare facilities had “little measurable impact” on the quality of care, and that patients rarely used the results of such audits to make healthcare decisions anyway....
by OQRI | Sep 22, 2018 | News
Credit reporting company Equifax held third-party ISO 27001 certification for Information Security Management Systems (IMSM) at the time of the 2017 security breach which led to the theft of personal information for over 147 million Americans. The scandal caused the...
by OQRI | Sep 14, 2018 | News
The ISO Survey 27th Cycle (2017) data has been released, and shows a 5% drop in worldwide certificates to ISO 9001, aligning with a prior Oxebridge prediction. The United States lost a staggering 18% of certificates, dropping to just over 25,000 certificates, the...
by OQRI | Sep 14, 2018 | News
The new Chair of the ASQ Board of Directors, Elmer Corbin, appears to have provided misleading comments to the Chinese state-run media agency Xinhua as part of a media blitz by ASQ CEO William Troy in support of ASQ’s pro-China policies. Corbin, having taken...
by OQRI | Aug 31, 2018 | News
In a practice that appears to go back as far as 2016, the ISO 9001 and AS9100 certification body (CB) NSF-ISR has included language in its quotes and contracts which give the registrar the right to charge $90 for each audit “CAR” (corrective action...
by OQRI | Jul 3, 2018 | News
ISO has released ISO 19011:2018 – Guidelines for Auditing Management Systems, the latest version of the standard designed to provide minimum requirements for first-, second- and third-party audits. The new standard can be purchased directly from ISO (here) for...
by OQRI | Jun 21, 2018 | News
The Oxebridge website appears to have been down from approximately 3 AM EST to 5:30 PM EST for an unknown reason. During the outage, access to server logs was not available to Oxebridge, and those logs are only now being reviewed to ascertain the cause. The outage...
by OQRI | Jun 11, 2018 | News
A number of new videos published by certificate mill operator Daryl Guberman appear to reveal that former TAG 176 Chair Alka Jarvis, of Cisco Systems, did collude with Guberman and ASQ administrator Jennifer Admussen to prevent Oxebridge founder Christopher Paris from...
by OQRI | May 21, 2018 | News
BREAKING: The Pasadena TX plant where an explosion injured 22 workers held ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certificates from DNV-GL, an ANAB accredited registrar. Kuraray EVAL, a plastics manufacturer, reported the explosion was the result of overpressure in the...
by OQRI | May 16, 2018 | News
Oxebridge has obtained the official tax filings for the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for the years 2010 through 2012, and finds that the group did not report any income derived from a fundraising campaign conducted by the group in 2010. In October 2010, ASQ...
by OQRI | May 16, 2018 | News
BREAKING: this story will be updated as more information comes in. A mandate from the American Society for Quality (ASQ) executive directs all ASQ Sections to transfer “excess account funds” to a single account under the control of the Milwaukee HQ. The...
by OQRI | May 15, 2018 | News
Alka Jarvis has written to Oxebridge formally indicating she has had no involvement with Daryl Guberman of Guberman PMC Registrars (Stratford CT), who is conducting defamation campaign against Oxebridge under her name. In a series of YouTube videos, Guberman has...
by OQRI | May 9, 2018 | News
The likely replacement for John Knappenberger as President and CEO of ANAB is Keith Greenaway, currently its Acting President and COO. Greenaway is the son of Albert “Skip” Greenaway, the president of registrar EAGLE Certification Group. EAGLE is...
by OQRI | May 8, 2018 | News
Bohemia NY based company AmpliTech announced last month that it won a General Services Administration (GSA) contract with the US Federal Government, for a value of $500,000 with three 5-year extension options. In its press release, AmpliTech boasted of its ISO 9001...
by OQRI | May 8, 2018 | News
Per the IAQG OASIS database and the ANAB website, registrar SAI Global has had its AS9100 accreditation restored. The certification body faced a months-long suspension of its accreditation due to a variety of issues, including lack of sufficient auditors with which to...
by OQRI | Apr 30, 2018 | News
The US Eastern District Court of Wisconsin has ruled in favor of ANAB in a lawsuit brought against the accreditation body by UK certification body Tsamota Certifications Ltd. ANAB sought to have the case dismissed on a motion for summary judgment, for which the judge...
by OQRI | Apr 27, 2018 | News
Randy Dougherty, the former VP of ANAB who now holds the role of International Technical Specialist, has written a firm denunciation of the April 26th video posted by certificate mill operator Daryl Guberman, in which Guberman claims that ANAB “leadership”...
by OQRI | Apr 26, 2018 | News
A video posted by certificate mill operator Daryl Guberman appears to provide definitive proof that three major US organizations involved in ISO standards development and certification colluded to falsely accuse Oxebridge and its founder of crimes in response to...
by OQRI | Apr 25, 2018 | News
Oxebridge Quality Resources International (Tampa FL) has launched its new Deep Dive QMS Audit Program for companies interested in outsourcing internal quality system audits. The Deep Dive audits provide an intense, detailed examination of a client’s entire QMS,...
by OQRI | Apr 24, 2018 | News
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) project to create a single, global database of accredited ISO certificates continues to move forward, but without stakeholder participation and largely out of public view. The latest development comes from a recent IAF-ILAC...
by OQRI | Apr 19, 2018 | News
The ANSI-ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) is being sued in US Federal court by a UK company which alleges breach of contract related to ANAB’s accreditation services. Tsamota Certification Ltd., a UK firm which provides auditing and certification services...
by OQRI | Apr 12, 2018 | News
ANAB President John Knappenberger will resign shortly, and staff within the US accreditation body are preparing for a sendoff party, according to sources. Oxebridge originally reported that Knappenberger was set to resign in 2016, according to leaked information from...
by OQRI | Apr 5, 2018 | Guidance Document, Template Kit
Oxebridge has released version 1.10 of its Totally Free ISO 9001:2015 QMS Documentation Template Kit. The kit provides a full set of customizable ISO 9001 document templates any company can use to build their quality management system, and relies on free software to...
by OQRI | Mar 30, 2018 | News
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has confirmed that it investigated ASQ State Section Chair William Levinson under its US Counterterrorism Division, coming on the heels of the Parkland shooting tragedy. Levinson is also a member of APICS. The investigation...
by OQRI | Mar 16, 2018 | News
(This is breaking news, and will be updated with further reporting as details come in.) The firm responsible for the construction of the pedestrian bridge at Florida International University, which collapsed Thursday and killed six people, boasted of ISO 9001...
by OQRI | Mar 9, 2018 | News
Oxebridge has filed separate complaints against the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS) alleging consumer fraud and deceptive marketing. The complaint against ASQ was filed with the Wisconsin Bureau of...
by OQRI | Mar 7, 2018 | News
The CEO and Chairman of Kobe Steel, Hiroya Kawasaki, has resigned in the face of a massive, decades-long scandal that has led to multiple criminal investigations and lawsuits. Various organizations and daughter companies within the Kobe Steel corporate family were...
by OQRI | Mar 2, 2018 | News
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) has ruled that ASQ State Section Chair William A. Levinson infringed on the trademark rights of Oxebridge by registering and operating the anti-Oxebridge defamation website previously located at www.oxebridge.biz....
by OQRI | Feb 28, 2018 | News
The medical device manufacturer Bard Peripheral Vascular, a division of CR Bard, was cited by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for serious quality system violations, including failing to report patient deaths, while holding an active ISO 13485 certificate...
by OQRI | Feb 23, 2018 | News
BSI has nominated Paul Simpson to replace Nigel Croft as the chair of ISO Technical Committee 176 Subcommittee 2 (TC 176/SC2) which is responsible for the drafting of ISO 9001 and related standards. Croft’s term is ending, prompting the search for his...
