Latest News & Opinion on the ISO Certification Scheme
Risk Expert May Not Have Considered Risk of Creating Fake Internet Profile to Promote G31000 Group
Alex Dali, the President of G31000 Global Institute for Risk Management, an international organization dedicated to cashing in on promoting the ISO 31000 risk management standard through training seminars and personal certifications, has apparently failed to assess...
Apparently, Risk Management is Just Like Porn
(UPDATE: See below.) There's a fascinating debate going on over at LinkedIn, in the ISO 31000 forum. Here's the link, although I suggest you scroll through to the end and work backwards, because the back-and-forth between risk advocate Peter Blokland, myself and ISO...
BSI Promotional Material Directly Links its Software with Certification Services
A promotional presentation developed by BSI directly links the usage of its Entropy software with its third party certification services. ISO 17021 clause 5.2.9 mandates that accredited certification bodies may not link their marketing to consulting services. 5.2.9...
Winter is Coming: ANAB Accredits Smithers for SN9001
ANAB has finally granted accreditation to Smithers Quality Assessments to the snow and ice management standard, SN9001, closing a weird, incestuous feedback loop that would boggle the mind, if it weren't all so ridiculously dull. Let's try to spice it up. The...
The Croft Alliance Opens Three New Offices, Still Can’t Afford Spam Filter
ISO TC 176 SC2 Chair Nigel Croft's consulting firm, The Croft Alliance Global (TCA Global) has opened up three new offices, in Mexico, Brazil and India. As I've noted before, Dr. Croft's firm is made up nearly entirely of TC 176 members he poached recruited during the...
Oxebridge Escalates Complaint Against BSI to UKAS
Oxebridge has escalated its complaint against BSI to the United Kingdom Accreditation Service, or UKAS. The move comes after receipt of a one-page, unsigned denial from BSI which failed to address specific allegations made by Oxebridge. The Oxebridge complaint...
LRQA Misplaces its Office in Hungary
Whatever is going on over at Lloyds Register (LRQA) sure is trippy. I'm not sure what type of drug one needs to lose an entire country, but whatever it is, they have it in great supply over at the LRQA home office. As if the strange-enough-already case of how LRQA...
BSI Responds to Oxebridge Complaint with Anonymous Denial
BSI has responded with an unsigned denial to an official complaint from Oxebridge, which alleged its Entropy™ software violates ISO 17021 rules against accredited certification bodies providing "specific solutions" towards implementation of ISO 9001. In a short...
ISO Agrees to Create First Worldwide Database of ISO 9001 Certifications
The International Accreditation Forum (IAF) confirmed today that the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) will pursue the creation of the first global database of ISO 9001 certifications. Through a measure pushed by ISO 9001 consultant Richard Murdock...
IAQG’s “Americas Lead” Doesn’t Understand Aerospace Anti-Counterfeit Measures
This started out as an innocent debate between me and another AS9100 professional. My colleague asserted that red dykem was sufficient to "permanently mark" scrap per AS9100 clause 8.3, but his registrar cited him with a nonconformity, claiming dykem is not permanent....
LRQA Responds to Official Complaint With Lawsuit Threat
Earlier this month, we reported a story entitled "LRQA Granted ISO 9001 Certificate to Company It Never Audited." We followed this up with a formal complaint to LRQA on the matter. LRQA responded to Oxebridge by threatening a lawsuit on the grounds of libel. Prior to...
Certificate Mill Manifesto Accuses ANAB, Orion and Others of Criminal Conspiracy, Theft
Stephen Keneally of American Global Standards, an unaccredited self-accredited certificate mill operating out of Oxnard CA, has sent me the original text of Bhagavad Gita, or at least something that looks like it. It's a nearly 4,000 word screed on life, corruption,...
The ISO 9001 Apocrypha
Charles Scalies, of Source4Quality, has collated a list of "ISO Apocrypha" from a LinkedIn discussion. These represent the many, many memes, bad interpretations and oft-parroted expectations of ISO 9001 auditors that have no bearing whatsoever in ISO 9001, or are just...
The Truth About ISO Grants No One Wants You to Know
A lot of US consultants claim they have access to "ISO grants" which can help companies cut their consulting and training bill. While this is true, the consultants often use their clients ignorance of the grants to either falsely bolster their reputations, or even...
Oxebridge Files Complaint Against BSI, Alleges Widespread ISO 17021 Violations
(Update: BSI has responded, click here.) Lima PERU -- Oxebridge Quality Resources International has filed a 15-page complaint against BSI's UK office, alleging widespread and systemic conflicts of interest in its ISO 9001 and related management system conformity...
ISO 9001 Certificates in China: How Fake Are They?
ISO has had to issue "corrected" numbers on national ISO 9001 totals for countries such as Russia, Ukraine and others; of the million + total certificates reported, over 100,000 were determined to be "fake" and as many as 50,000 - 75,000 more are suspect. And yet so...
Out of the Seldon Crisis: Asimov, Deming and AS9100
In Isaac Asimov's groundbreaking science fiction Foundation series of novels, the idea of the "Seldon Crisis" is introduced, named after the fictional character, Hari Seldon. In the far flung future, pure scientific application is able to accurately predict future...
Lufthansa Technik Awards AS9110 Contract to Oxebridge
Lufthansa Technik Philippines has awarded Oxebridge a contract for AS9110 services, to begin first quarter 2014. The aircraft repair services devision of Lufthansa operates three depots in the Philippines, at Pasay City, Mactan Cebu and Clark Pampanga. The company’s...
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ISO Grants Rare Award to Oxebridge VP Chris Paris [HUMOR]
Not content with merely being voted the World's Most Awesome ISO 9001 Consultant in the World, I can now add "ISO Award Winning ISO 9001 Consultant" to my growing list of credentials. And this time I didn't even have to invent the award myself! Over at the...
Why Auditing “Active Orders” is Terrible Practice
As recently discussed, self-proclaimed ISO 9001 expert David Seear revealed his idea of a "process audit" is to merely select a handful of active orders, chosen during a pre-audit shop floor tour, and then audit those. Unfortunately this practice isn't something...
IRCA Trainer Says Audit Sampling is Based on “Available Time”
(UPDATED 12/17/2014 - see below) IRCA ISO 9010 Lead Assessor trainer, and self-published book author, David Seear has spent the better part of the last ten years (or more) pushing a concept he calls "Back to Basics." The collective thesis is tough to suss out, since...
Process Audits for ISO 9001 Made Blindingly Simple
So many are confused by process auditing, it's become a virus in the industry. Let's inoculate. A process audit shifts the focus from the product to the process, and examines each process' ability to produce a product that meets the requirements for that process. You...
Oxebridge Holds “Future of ISO 9001” Seminar in Lima Peru
Lima Peru -- Oxebridge Quality Resources International celebrated the official opening of its offices in Lima with a seminar at the Hilton Miraflores on "The Future of ISO 9001: Preparing for the Changes in ISO 9001:2015." The event was attended by industry experts...
Is This the Best Article on Risk Analysis Ever Written?
Could be. It's from Quality Digest's June 2011 release, but it remains a solid critique of current risk analysis methods, such as FMEA, which rely on arbitrary guesswork and bad math to make critical decisions. As I've said before, by applying numbers to guesses, we...
Did ISO Ignore Nigel Croft on 9001 Release Date?
In going through my old files on ISO 9001:2015, I came across a presentation given by ISO TC176 SC2 Chairman Nigel Croft at the 10th IRCA Forum in Japan, during June of 2011. There's a lot of interesting information in it, but one slide in particular stood out. For...
ISO Survey Data 22nd Cycle (2012) Now Available
ISO has released the 22nd edition of its annual ISO Survey, presenting data on the worldwide totals of various ISO standards, such as ISO 9001. The file may be downloaded for free. The link for the ISO Survey 2012 can be found at:...
Soft Grading: Still Alive and Well
Feedback from frustrated prime contractors and other stakeholders during the early 2000's led to a push against the practice by Certification Bodies (CBs) of "soft grading" nonconformities. This is where an auditor finds a nonconformity of a certain severity, but...
ISO / IAF Considering Universal ISO 9001 Registry of Certified Companies
ISO 9001 accreditation rules require that each certification body (CB) maintain a publicly-accessible registry of its certified clients. But with the large number of international CBs, and without any standardization for how the information is presented, users have...
Unaccredited Registrar Daryl Guberman Doesn’t Know What Product Certification Is
In a manifesto appearing on the site for his unaccredited ISO 9001 certificate mill G-PMC, owner Daryl Guberman accuses accredited registrars of violating rules he doesn't adhere to himself. Specifically, he calls out certification bodies, including DNV, for failing...
Oxebridge Defeats ISO Legal Move That Would Have “Threatened Entire Industry”
Tampa FL --- Oxebridge has successfully shut down a legal maneuver by lawyers representing the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) which would have made it illegal for any company, consultant, certification body or person to use the term "ISO 9001"...
Five Things Consultants Can Do to Fix ISO 9001’s Reputation
ANAB and the accreditation bodies are only one player in the ISO 9001 ecosystem. They, along with the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) are probably in the best position to do the most good in the shortest time, due to their power in the industry, but this...
Five Things ANAB Can Do Right Now to Fix ISO 9001’s Reputation
ISO 9001 in the US is on the decline, and there are many places to lay blame. The infrastructure surrounding ISO 9001 certification scheme is a complex organism, comprised of relationships between clients, consultants, auditors, certification bodies (CBs),...
“Value Added” Auditing May Be Illegal
Despite only being accredited for "conformity assessments," Conformity Assessment Bodies (see? it's in their name) nevertheless market their services as "value added auditing" in order to distinguish themselves from competitors. Of course nowadays nearly every...
ISO Data: Less Than 0.5% of Organizations Requested Risk Management Be Included in ISO 9001:2015
According to official ISO User Survey data, when asked whether risk management should be included in ISO 9001:2015, only 4,560 companies responded favorably. ISO commissioned a survey of current and potential ISO 9001 users in July 2009, in order to "better understand...
Oxebridge Launches Management Maturity Model (M3) Development Forum
Oxebridge has launched the first step in the development of the Management Maturity Model standards, or "M3" at the following URL: http://www.emthreedev.org The M3 Development project, formerly called "ALT 9001", will attempt to use modern technology to crowdsource...
