Salzburg Research passes ISO 9001:2000 audit
December 2nd, 2008
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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1. Sunil Goyal | December 20th, 2008 at 9:08 pm
That’s great!! I wasn’t very sure weather the ISO certification is well recognized in Europe. In India lot of consulting companies do ISO and then go for CMM 3, CMM5 level etc. I have also in my last few years got used to lot of processes
2. Ilyn Quiambao | January 31st, 2009 at 2:40 am
That’s good. What do you mean by you may loose some degrees of freedom/individuality?
3. admin | January 31st, 2009 at 7:47 am
Well, by “degrees of freedom” I meant that with any system you define rules and regulations and especially for smaller and medium size enterprises (Salzburg Research currently employs about 70 people), individuality often is the way to pursue.
BTW: http://www.iso9001compliance.com is an interesting URL with lots of books, articles, consulting and more, also on the new ISO 9001 2008 standard.
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