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.
IAF Finally Ejects Russia… For Not Paying Dues
IAF Chair Emanuele Riva’s accreditation body, Accredia, remains one of the few ABs operating in Russia, raising questions of corruption.
Honoring Sanctions, Finland Strips Properties from Russian Ex-President of ISO
Former ISO President Boris Aleshin faces sanctions against himself personally and his state-run Russian military corporations.
The Purge: ISO Ejects Russian Critic of its Support of Russia, Not Actual Russia
ISO and Standards Australia have ejected long-time standards expert Alex Ezrakhovich for his social media posts against Russia.
ISO 27001 Certified Company Found Leaking Children’s Data, Takes No Action
Airtable was found to be leaking PII for minors as young as 10, despite holding ISO 27001 certification and claiming SOC2 compliance.
UKAS Violates UK Sanctions Against Russia, Continues to Accredit in Russia
The UKAS mark appears on two certificates issued in March 2023 to SB-Group in Moscow.
PJLA Pulls Video of “Consultant Referral Program” After Raising Questions
Perry Johnson Laboratory Accreditation’s head admitted the program gave an “incentive” to participating consultants.
Cyber AB Releases Consulting Tool, “Demolishes” Pretense of Objectivity, ISO 17011 Conformity
The Cyber AB’s “CRT” tool would give unfair advantage to some end users, and not others.
DoD Inspector General to Audit CMMC Program and AB Oversight
The DODIG announced it will begin an audit of the DoD’s accreditation activities for CMMC in mere days.
Nominees for ISO 9001 Rewrite Committee Include No Actual Users
Of nine nominees, six are private consultants and three are from national standards bodies; none are end-user representatives.
Quality Magazine Wants to Remind You that ISO Consultants Are On Meth
Andy Nichols’ new article on the ISO 9001 revision will have you smoking weird shit, too.
Fed Contractor Bragged About ISO 27001 Certificate, But It’s Fake
Cloud7Works bought ISO 9001 and 27001 certs from an Indian certificate mill.
IATF Just Did A Really, Really Stupid Thing … Will ISO/AS Follow?
New IATF rules require separate quality systems for sites only 10 miles apart.
Qatar Scammer Removed Trump Seal, Replaced It with Fake BBB Accreditation
Green Quality Services WLL is claiming better business accreditation by the “IBA.”
Scammers Created Fake IAF CertSearch Website Clone
“IAFcrtsearch” — intentionally misspelled — seems ready to scam users who can’t read good.
Chris Paris’ Novel DR. CUBA Goes On Sale (Cheap!)
My novel DR. CUBA is now launched on Amazon, and you can grab the e-book version for only 99 cents (or free, if you have Kindle Unlimited). This is a soft-launch of what I am calling the "Secret Syndicate Edition" of the book, a pre-publication edition. If that sounds...
GOP Candidate Claims Training on Three ISO 9001 Standards That Don’t Exist
Theresa Fronczak had three chances to get her dates right, and whiffed all of them.
DoD Quietly Turned CMMC Into a Certificate Mill Scam
Final Rule diluted the requirement for C3PAOs to be accredited, leaving the Cyber AB nothing to do.
Amtivo Nabs ISO9001.com, Wants to Replicate Tekno Comix
Tekno Comix thought they could buy their way into an industry and closed two years later.
Amtivo’s Bulk Acquisition of ISO Certification Bodies Is A Disaster
Amtivo’s “Buy an Entire Industry Overnight” strategy isn’t working out so well.
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....