The last I was involved with any of this, ISO9000/9001 was more of an
upper level umbrella than anything else. It basically required that you
document what you said you were going to do and adhere to it. It didn't
really require that what you did was technically or statistically or
operationally sound. It promoted a certain level of consistent
performance and that certainly was valuable, but it wasn't by itself a
very effective tool for creating improvement. We complied with it, of
course, but considered it to be more administrative eyewash than
anything else. Process improvement tools like Six Sigma and TPM were
much more rigorous and had much more utility, at least for us and at
least back when ISO9000 was released.
Dave AB7E
On 4/2/2018 10:09 PM, Charles Farr wrote:
In all this palaver I haven't seen anything mentioned about ISO9000.
This process and quality control system at one time was considered
critical for world market companies. I've bee out of the workplace for
10 years, so I don't have a current perception, but I recall that we
couldn't even market, much less sell our products without the ISO9000
certification. Has something changed?
73
Chuck, W6AJW
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