Whittington Article on True Audit Sampling
Quick hit: Larry Whittington of Whittington & Associates has a great article on sampling for audits. The best I've ever read on the subject. Audit Sampling (direct link) Ever seen a registrar audit like this? I didn't think so.
Promoting ISO 9001 – Peruvian Style
Some examples of the many ways Peruvian companies advertise their ISO 9001 certifications. This results in a massive consumer awareness of ISO 9001, driving certification from the public, rather than through mandates by prime customers. [gallery link="file"...
Snow Job: SN9001 “Standard” Furthers Industry Self-Cannibalization
by Christopher Paris In case you hadn't heard, there's a new sector specific standard out called SN9001. It's for the (guess) snow and ice management industry. Yep, those guys. Apparently snow management companies had to make their own standard, because ISO 9001 was...
Why Auditor “Opportunities for Improvement” Are the Exact Opposite of That
by Christopher Paris The debate over whether ISO 9001 certification body (CB) auditors should offer "OFI's" (opportunities for improvement) cuts to the core of some of the problems facing the international standard. While most auditors and CB reps insist that clients...
Another Look at the ISO Spin Machine
by Christopher Paris A recent article on ISO 26000 give an excellent example of how ISO uses only the most dubious data that supports a predetermined marketing initiative, and ignores actual data that might contradict it. The article is linked here:...
The Case Against “Improvement” in ISO 9001
by Christopher Paris VP Operations, Oxebridge Quality Resources International ISO requires that its management system standards undergo a review every 5 years, for the purposes of improving them. The unwritten, but accepted, practice is that every other...
AS9100 C: Windfall for Prime OEMs, Boondoggle for Users?
by Christopher Paris As more and more supporting documents, facts and actual audit experiences leak out, one thing is becoming clear: AS9100 revision C is a very different animal than its predecessor, Rev. B. But a page-to-page comparison between the standards...
In Attempt to Avoid Criticism, AAQG Bans Self
by Christopher Paris It's been a tough week to be an internet representative of the Americas Aerospace Quality Group. Criticism had already been building from AS9100 end users at the botched rollout of various supporting rules, like AS9101 and AS9104, which are...
The Irony of Power in the QMS Certification World – Part 3
by Christopher Paris (Part 1 here, Part 2 here) In the first two parts of this series, I showed how certification bodies, training organizations, accreditation bodies, quality publications and even other consultants work in harmony to restrict the open discussion, and...
The Irony of Power in the QMS Certification World – Part 2
by Christopher Paris (Part one may be read here.) Choking Dissent As the recent AAQG / Cessna controversy shows, these organizations are not above cutting off any public discussion to shut down a conversation that doesn't go their way. Over at the LinkedIn AAQG group,...