LRQA Misplaces its Office in Hungary
Whatever is going on over at Lloyds Register (LRQA) sure is trippy. I'm not sure what type of drug one needs to lose an entire country, but whatever it is, they have it in great supply over at the LRQA home office. As if the strange-enough-already case of how LRQA...
IAQG’s “Americas Lead” Doesn’t Understand Aerospace Anti-Counterfeit Measures
This started out as an innocent debate between me and another AS9100 professional. My colleague asserted that red dykem was sufficient to "permanently mark" scrap per AS9100 clause 8.3, but his registrar cited him with a nonconformity, claiming dykem is not permanent....
Certificate Mill Manifesto Accuses ANAB, Orion and Others of Criminal Conspiracy, Theft
Stephen Keneally of American Global Standards, an unaccredited self-accredited certificate mill operating out of Oxnard CA, has sent me the original text of Bhagavad Gita, or at least something that looks like it. It's a nearly 4,000 word screed on life, corruption,...
The ISO 9001 Apocrypha
Charles Scalies, of Source4Quality, has collated a list of "ISO Apocrypha" from a LinkedIn discussion. These represent the many, many memes, bad interpretations and oft-parroted expectations of ISO 9001 auditors that have no bearing whatsoever in ISO 9001, or are just...
The Truth About ISO Grants No One Wants You to Know
A lot of US consultants claim they have access to "ISO grants" which can help companies cut their consulting and training bill. While this is true, the consultants often use their clients ignorance of the grants to either falsely bolster their reputations, or even...
ISO 9001 Certificates in China: How Fake Are They?
ISO has had to issue "corrected" numbers on national ISO 9001 totals for countries such as Russia, Ukraine and others; of the million + total certificates reported, over 100,000 were determined to be "fake" and as many as 50,000 - 75,000 more are suspect. And yet so...
Out of the Seldon Crisis: Asimov, Deming and AS9100
In Isaac Asimov's groundbreaking science fiction Foundation series of novels, the idea of the "Seldon Crisis" is introduced, named after the fictional character, Hari Seldon. In the far flung future, pure scientific application is able to accurately predict future...
IRCA Trainer Says Audit Sampling is Based on “Available Time”
(UPDATED 12/17/2014 - see below) IRCA ISO 9010 Lead Assessor trainer, and self-published book author, David Seear has spent the better part of the last ten years (or more) pushing a concept he calls "Back to Basics." The collective thesis is tough to suss out, since...
Is This the Best Article on Risk Analysis Ever Written?
Could be. It's from Quality Digest's June 2011 release, but it remains a solid critique of current risk analysis methods, such as FMEA, which rely on arbitrary guesswork and bad math to make critical decisions. As I've said before, by applying numbers to guesses, we...
Did ISO Ignore Nigel Croft on 9001 Release Date?
In going through my old files on ISO 9001:2015, I came across a presentation given by ISO TC176 SC2 Chairman Nigel Croft at the 10th IRCA Forum in Japan, during June of 2011. There's a lot of interesting information in it, but one slide in particular stood out. For...