Eastman Business Park (Rochester NY) is home to businesses in the energy storage, food and beverage, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, plastics manufacturing, roll-to-roll manufacturing, and photonics industries. We were invited to contribute to their blog. We chose to write about Risk-Based Thinking.
Many companies still wonder whether it’s worth the time and effort to obtain ISO 9001:2015 certification. What Does Becoming ISO 9001:2015-Certified Mean? As with any regulated standard, it means proving to the certifying agency that your organization meets the rules and regulations of the standard and complies with its guidelines. For ISO 9001, the process […]
Certifying your company’s compliance with the ISO 9001 standard is done via an assessment performed by an independent organization. That certifying agency is called a registrar. A registrar is also referred to as a Certification Body (CB). The registrar determines whether your organization’s quality management system (QMS) meets the requirements of the current ISO 9001 […]
Eastman Business Park (Rochester NY) is home to businesses in the energy storage, food and beverage, biopharmaceutical manufacturing, chemical manufacturing, plastics manufacturing, roll-to-roll manufacturing, and photonics industries. We were invited to contribute to their blog. We chose to write about Corrective vs Preventive Action: Does It Matter?.
The first concern usually expressed regarding the ISO 9001:2015 standard is that it is organized very differently from 2008. This page provides an excellent high-level overview of the changes. There are new requirements, but not all the requirements have changed. The ISO organization realizes the need to improve its own processes and documents to make […]
In this article, we summarize the costs for implementing a quality management system and achieving ISO 9001:2015 certification. The costs and time needed to upgrade your operations to meet the standard’s criteria and to achieve registration depend on many things, so actual estimates are not possible here. Improving Your Operations to Become ISO 9001:2015 Compliant […]