by PsyphaDeejay | Jan 3, 2014 | Archived, General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
In our previous blog, we looked at the advantages of having a formal Quality Management System, such as those found in ISO standards like ISO 9001 In my on-going campaign to simplify the often over-complicated world of standards, I’ve summed up the functions in...
by PsyphaDeejay | Dec 6, 2013 | Archived, General, ISO 9001
To look at 3D Engineering’s website, you’d be excused for thinking that, with their impressive portfolio of clients, they had held ISO 9001 for many years. Surprisingly, a formal qualification is a new venture for them. Not that they didn’t have...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, ISO 9001, Quality Management System
Part Four – Thatcher, Tebbit, and Enter BS5750.. Meanwhile in the UK, way before the characters ISO9001 had ever been linked together, our own manufacturing industry lost competitiveness at an exponential rate during the 1970s. Enter The Iron Lady, and her...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, Quality Management System
Part Three – Japan, Bikes, and Quality Management ISO 9001 wasn’t invented by consultants – there are specific reasons as to “how we got here”, along with some surprises. Remarkably, Japan used to have the reputation of producing cheap...
by PsyphaDeejay | Sep 2, 2013 | A Short History of Standards - ISO9001 and How We Got Here., General, ISO 9001
Part One – Artisans, Victorians and World War No, this is not a cure for insomnia. Hopefully it will help to explain how we got from Mediaeval Artisans to mass-production (and ISO 9001), and how standards have evolved. If you are contemplating attaining any ISO...
