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Oxebridge Featured in Assembly Magazine Article on AS9100

Winter Haven FL --- Oxebridge Quality Resources has been featured in an article on implementation of AS9100, the aerospace quality management system standard, in the April 2009 edition of Assembly Magazine, published by BNP Media. The article discusses the...

Oxebridge on Twitter

Winter Haven FL -- Oxebridge Quality Resources can now be followed on Twitter, at @Oxebridge or at the following page: www.twitter.com/Oxebridge

Oxebridge Offers $500 Upgrade Service to ISO 9001:2008

Winter Haven FL -- Oxebridge Quality Resources, a leader in rapid, low-cost ISO 9001 implementations, is offering companies upgrade services to the latest ISO 9001 standard for a flat fee of $500. This service upgrades documentation to include and align with the...

Byington Steel Achieves AS9100

Santa Clara CA -- Metal finishing company Byington Steel, Inc. has received AS9100 certificate from NSF. The company provides quality heat treating services for aerospace and other industries, serving companies such as Boeing, Applied Materials and Northrup Grumman....

CMMI – ISO 9001 Crosswalk Published

Pittsburgh PA -- Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has released an official document comparing the requirements of the ISO 9001 with the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). The document, entitled An Initial Comparative...

Freeman, Micklesen Pharmacies Receive CMS Accreditation

River Falls WI -- Freeman Drug of River Falls WI and Micklesen Drug of Hudson WI received CMS accreditation by the Accreditation Commission for Healthcare (ACHC) for their operations involved in the sale and servicing of durable medical equipment (DME). New Federal...

ANAB sides with Oxebridge in Complaint against NQA

Milwaukee WI - The ANSI/ASQ National Accreditation Board (ANAB) has sided with Oxebridge in its complaint against ISO 9001 and AS9100 registrar NQA, after an NQA auditor conducted an audit of an Oxebridge client using an unreleased version of the AS9100 standard. The...

Complaint Against NQA Elevated to ANAB

Acton MA --- At the behest of its client, Oxebridge has submitted a formal complaint to ANAB against ISO 9001 and AS9100 registrar NQA. The complaint alleges that in June 2008 an AS9100 auditor performed a Stage 1 audit of the client against a draft copy of AS9100...

Pharmacies, HMEs Push to Meet Accreditation Deadline

Winter Haven FL --- A number of pharmacies and home medical equipment (HME) companies have contracted with Oxebridge, pushing ahead to meet a mandatory deadline for accreditation to Medicare standards. As decreed by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services...

Oxebridge Joins A2LA as Organizational Member

Winter Haven FL — Oxebridge Quality Resources has joined the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) as an organizational member. A2LA is a leading internationally recognized accreditation body offering accreditation  for calibration and test...

OPINION

Read ANSI CEO Joe Bhatia’s 2012 Testimony before Congress

In 2012 ANSI CEO Joe Bhatia testified before the US House Committee on Space, Science and Technology, and assured the Congress that all was well with both ANSI the organization and its’ two primary functions: standards development and conformity assessment oversight. As we know, both are entirely off the rails, and have been so for years.

Want to Join the AS9100 Committee? Good Luck!

To test the theory that the IAQG isn’t really interested in allowing actual users of AS9100 join the ranks of those responsible for writing the standard, I thought I’d do what I usually do, and shove my head in the lion’s mouth so you don’t have to.

How does ISO 9001:2015 Stack Up Against Deming’s 14 Points?

It’s generally accepted in the quality profession that W. Edwards Deming’s “14 Points for the Transformation of Management” are considered a revolutionary way to view quality, and have been successfully used in major manufacturing organizations. Yet ISO 9001 has never much embraced Deming’s 14 points. The new ISO 9001:2015 standard had an opportunity to correct this, but did they? Let’s see how the new standard stacks up.

Quick Hit: What Registrars Are Saying about Risk-Based Thinking

Larry Caracciolo's blog on ISO 9001 is running some good material lately, and his new post on what the CBs are saying about ISO 9001:2015's "risk-based thinking" is worth a look. We can conclude three things from the research of certain TC 176 documents and a sampling...

US TAG Elections – A More Serious Look

Pressing for electoral reform within the US TAG to ISO TC 176 is a first step in fixing the institutionalized cronyism within ANSI’s TAGs, and to correct course on the disastrous ISO 9001:2015 draft due to be published later this year.

Let It Go, Let it Go – SN9001 is Dead

SN9001 was a cynical, craven attempt by the certification community to create a standard out of thin air, and ten dupe companies into paying for it. Fortunately, it didn’t work.

Blood in the Water – New QMS Standards Challenge ISO 9001

There’s an unprecedented new angle to the dissent being faced by ISO 9001:2015: competition. ISO 9001:2015 is looking more and more like a wounded swimmer, and the sharks are circling. Multiple alternatives to the standard are cropping up, some from the most unusual places.

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