{"id":1427,"date":"2013-04-04T07:18:23","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/?p=1427"},"modified":"2016-05-20T20:13:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T00:13:03","slug":"certificate-mill-g-pmc-accreditation-is-antisemitic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oxebridge.com\/emma\/certificate-mill-g-pmc-accreditation-is-antisemitic\/","title":{"rendered":"Certificate Mill G-PMC: Accreditation is Antisemitic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my series of articles\u00a0The Indefensibles<\/a>\u00a0I point out the simultaneously hilarious and ethically void behavior of the world’s unaccredited ISO 9001 and AS9100 registrars, or “certificate mills.” I am working on two more such pieces, but this bit couldn’t wait.<\/p>\n

Daryl Guberman operates a certificate mill called G-PMC from Stratford CT. In a breathless, apparently self-written press release<\/a> from last August, he announced that “In the World of ISO, He’s It: Daryl Guberman Reveals Why Quality Is out of Control”<\/em> and “Daryl Guberman is bringing new life to manufacturers nationwide by exposing the disarray and anti-competitive monopoly that is strangling quality.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Well, if someone is going to claim to be the savior of ISO 9001, I want in. So I reached out. \u00a0Specifically, I wanted some clarity on the following contradictory statements:<\/span><\/p>\n

In recent months, manufacturers have been flocking in droves to Guberman-PMC, LLC \u00a0to acquire their fully-accredited ISO certificate issued by G-PMC, a stand alone registrar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the same piece Mr. Guberman goes on at length to complain against<\/em> the accreditation he just took credit for.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Guberman said he believes the ISO certification process was never intended to have all or most registration companies overseen by a single accreditation body, which he warns results in a monopoly. According to Guberman, there are no standards that he knows of by which a single certification body can define who can accredit whom, nor should such protectionism be legislated, whether it be directly or indirectly as a repugnant means to safeguard the profits and interests of a conglomerate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reading that, I wrote Mr. Guberman a short email asking him about how he can claim “fully accredited” and then go on to dismiss accreditation. I also asked why he was claiming accreditation from organizations that don’t actually offer it, like the “Industrial Leaders Group” or the “American Raw Materials.” (More on those dubious organizations in my upcoming piece.)<\/p>\n

I am not kidding with what I am about to say. The email was sent 12:39 PM, and I received a phone call from Mr. Guberman at 12:41 — literally two minutes later.<\/em>\u00a0I didn’t have the chance to record it, or even tell him why I was asking for the information, before I was met with a 500 MPH flood of conspiracy theory data. All I have is my hastily written notes.<\/p>\n

Here’s the big takeaway.\u00a0During the conversation, Mr. Guberman said he was frustrated when he tried to get the unaccredited G-PMC accepted into OASIS, the AS9100 database, which would then allow his company to be recognized by aerospace primes. The folks at OASIS told him he can’t, because it is not accredited by ANAB. He told the representative that forcing ANAB accreditation onto AS registrars was tantamount to<\/span> “the days when country clubs wouldn’t allow Blacks or Jews.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Yeah, it took all of three minutes for Mr. Guberman to go there. Seriously, what is with the unaccredited registrars and insensitive religious metaphor<\/a>?<\/p>\n

It just went downhill from there, if you can imagine it:<\/p>\n