Cask Exec Resigns Suddenly, Citing Need to “Focus on Family”
An arrest of one or more Cask executives is expected to come in the coming days or weeks.
Arrington Takes VP Position at Exiger, Selling CMMC Services
The move reinforces allegations that the CMMC scheme was set up specifically to benefit its architects.
Victor Gandy and Latin Americans Take Over IAF Secretary, Elva Nilsen Out
The IAF announced that Gandy’s company, Axis Mundi, will take over as secretariat for GLOBAC, the IAF/ILAC merger.
As Another Defendant Pleads Guilty, Arrest in Cask Case Appears Imminent
Dawnell Parker has pleaded guilty in a bribery case related to Cask Government Services.
Cyber AB Board Member’s Company Named as “Partner” with CMMC Assessment Body
Cyber AB Board Member Katherine Gronberg’s company NightDragon offers CMMC services in partnership with Coalfire.
Oxebridge Expands AS9100 Internal Auditor to 12-Hour Course
The AS9100 course was lengthened after the prior 8-hour class was seen as too rushed.
Okta Breach Occurred While Company Held ISO 27001 Certification from Schellman
Language on Schellman’s website and the certificates suggest the hacks should not be possible.
With Soriano Indictment, DoJ Appears to be Closing on Cask Executives
James Soriano was previously accused of accepting bribes from CMMC assessment body Cask Government Services.
ISO HQ Orders Immediate “Amendment” to ISO 9001 to Add Climate Change
A host of other standards, many wholly unrelated to environmental matters, will be affected.
Oxebridge Files Request with US Treasury to Clarify ANSI Position on Russian Sanctions
ANSI misquoted a decade-old OFAC ruling to justify allowing Russians on ISO committees, and ISO republished it.
A SovCit, a Drag Queen, and a Plagiarist Walk Into A Bar…
ISO certification bodies and other scheme actors are expanding harassment and abuse of whistleblowers.
ISO Rolls Out “Dystopian” Copyright Enforcement Policies
Certification Body auditors are now forcibly conscripted to act as ISO’s unpaid copyright police.
LRQA Bought a Consulting Company Because Conflicts of Interest Are Cool Now
Scott Dawson’s Core Business Solutions is now part of LRQA because, aww, your ethics are cute.
IAQG Mass-Deletes Fraud Complaints That They Were Ignoring Anyway
The aerospace body embraces corruption and fraud like a warm teddy bear on a chilly November night.
We Now Know Which IAQG Rep Grabbed the IA9100.com Domain
Jim Lee nabbed the domain to promote his QMS consulting company, SimpleQue.
Certificate Mill Sent Fake Email Claiming Oxebridge Was Extorting Them
Apparently we want $1,000,000 from a guy who works above a third world yarn store.
LRQA Wants You to Think Their Russian Office is in the UK
LRQA data in the “mandatory” IAF CertSearch database is wrong, very wrong.
San Francisco AI Company Obtained ISO 27001 from Indians Accredited in Ethopia
Thalamus AI appears to be scrambling to hide the fact they operate in India.
IAQG Doesn’t Know that Jeeps Exist
CBs say you can’t use the word “automotive” in your AS9100 QMS.
Screw CMMC, DoD Announces ANOTHER Cybersecurity Certification Scheme
Because causing another last-minute panic in the DIB is right what China wants.
Want to See Oxebridge’s Comments on the DIS of ISO 9001:2015?
Now you can save yourself an entire week of typing comments on ISO DIS 9001:2015, and just submit Oxebridge’s comments to TC 176 as your own. Yes, that’s as insane as it sounds. But easy!
Dr. Who Game Perfectly Sums Up Risk Management Consultants’ Entire Business Model
This promo graphic for the new BBC board game RISK: THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH accidentally captured the entire spin-doctor tactics of risk managers currently infecting the contemporary dialog on business management.
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...
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...
Oxebridge Adds New Guide to Selecting a Registrar
Adding to its growing library of free guidance documents, Oxebridge has published a guide on registrar selection.
AS9100 Configuration Management for the Small Machine Shop
AS9100’s requirements for configuration management (CM) are well understood by the massive aerospace primes, but can present overkill and confusion for small downstream suppliers. Fortunately, for the small machine shop, the configuration management requirements can...
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...
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...
Six Sense Auditing: How Your Eyeballs Fail You During Audits
Vision is great. It helps us to drive our cars, choose our mates, and accurately spear a woolly mammoth for dinner; often in that order, if your date goes well. But when it comes to conducting audits, our eyeballs let us down. They lead us down the wrong path, and...
Top Ten Mistakes ISO 9001 Consultants Make – Part 2
(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 teaching clients everything they know (see #5 "Data...
Top Ten Mistakes ISO 9001 Consultants Make – Part 1
This marks the first of a series of "How to Be an Excellent ISO 9001 Consultant" articles; it would equally apply to consultants of other management systems including AS9100, ISO 14001, TS 16949, etc. Here I present some common mistakes that ISO 9001 consultants make...
“Passive” Customer Satisfaction Measurement for ISO 9001
by Christopher Paris VP Operations, Oxebridge Quality Resources When ISO 9001:2000 was released, it introduced a need to gather data on customer satisfaction. This resulted in a flood of "Satisfaction Surveys" being released by ISO 9001 certified organizations to...
Oxebridge Releases DumbAS9100 – A Smartass’ Guide to AS9100
Tampa FL --- Oxebridge has finally followed up its wildly popular Eyesore 9000 parody document with an aerospace version based on AS9100 Rev C, called DumbAS9100. The document is available for free download from the Oxebridge humor page. DumbAS9100 is a 39-page,...
AS9110 B Includes Minor New Requirements, Emphasizes Technical Data
A review by Oxebridge of the new AS9110 Rev. B standard, for aircraft repair stations, reveals that the revised document does include a number of minor new requirements. Below is a list of new or modified requirements in the AS9110 B standard, as compared to the Rev....