by Christopher Paris | Apr 19, 2019 | Guidance Document, News
As announced last week, the surprise Second Edition of Surviving ISO 9001:2015 has been released. There was a slight glitch, however, as Amazon only released the new paperback edition, and didn’t make the Kindle (ebook) edition available. That’s been fixed...
by OQRI | Apr 10, 2019 | News
Self-accredited ISO 9001 certificate mill Guberman-PMC LLC has once again violated ISO 17021-1 accreditation rules by publishing a video in which its founder, Daryl Guberman, invites consultants to enter into a “partnership” with his alleged certification...
by OQRI | Apr 6, 2019 | News
The standard form AS9102 and associated instructions are up for a five-year review, and the IAQG is soliciting comments from stakeholders. AS9102 is the standard used for First Article Inspection, and is typically the form used for such inspections. To provide...
by Christopher Paris | Apr 4, 2019 | News
Well, that was quick. Just yesterday I teased the release of the Second Edition of Surviving ISO 9001:2015, What Went So Wrong with the World’s Foremost Quality Management Standard and How to Implement It Anyway, and now it’s already available on Amazon. This...
by OQRI | Apr 4, 2019 | News
A 2014 US Dept. of State Charging Letter issued against Esterline Technologies Corporation reveals the company’s network of subsidiaries engaged in a decade of ITAR violations, for a total of 282 separate charges. In at least two cases, criminal investigations...
by Christopher Paris | Apr 3, 2019 | News
The only thing that’s generated more mail than our April Fool’s Day report on Oxebridge shutting down has been anxious aerospacers demanding to know when my next book, Surviving AS9100 Rev. D, is coming out. After all, it’s many months late. The good...
by OQRI | Apr 1, 2019 | Humor, News, Satire
April 1, 2019 – For Immediate Release Oxebridge Quality Resources International has announced its intent to shut down entirely after a 19-year battle against defamation and extortion led largely by moderators of the Elsmar Cove forum, self-accredited certificate...
by OQRI | Mar 26, 2019 | News
In 2013, the Rana Plaza factory complex in Dhaka Bangladesh collapsed, killing more than 1,130 people and injuring another 2,500. According to reporting by European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, subsequent investigations found rampant human rights abuses...
by OQRI | Mar 21, 2019 | News
Intercontinental Terminal Company (ITC) has just extinguished a massive chemical fire at its Deer Park TX tank farm, where holding tanks filled with petroleum and other volatile chemicals burned benzene into the atmosphere, triggering a large-scale environmental...
by OQRI | Mar 21, 2019 | News
The utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) held multiple accredited safety certifications even as it was allowing a culture of unsafe data falsification to fester. Investigators have discovered that PG&E “locators” falsified data related...
