Salzburg Research passes ISO 9001:2000 audit
ISO 9001:2000 is an international standard that has its origins in assessing suppliers for technical systems. Salzburg Research today successfully passed the audit (by TÜV Österreich).
I believe that the following three main points argue for a quality management system:
- With a QM-System you define rules about processes and interactions; also, these rules are the same throughout the organisation
- Knowledge is embedded within an organisation (we all know that this is only possible to a limited degree, but anyway)
- Finally, it is a documentation to the outside world (both customers as well as owner) that Salzburg Research is standing for quality
On the negative side there is – obviously – some overhead in necessary documentation and also, you may loose some degrees of freedom/individuality.
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