ISO 9001 Certification

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ISO 9001: 2008 (which has replaced ISO 9001:2000)- has been described as the quality certificate with a small name and a large agenda!

Its aim is to make efficiency, profitability and corporate desirability a realistic part of your company manifesto, easily and with minimum financial burden through ISO 9001 Certification.

Customers are increasingly becoming quality-conscious shoppers. They want to know up front that your business will meet their needs. A certified Quality Management System demonstrates your commitment to quality and customer satisfaction.

ISOCEL audits Quality Management System certification to ISO 9001:2008 which helps businesses, large and small, to get on the road to business improvement. Our clients have discovered strengths and improvement opportunities while demonstrating their commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. Implementing a Quality Management System will help you enhance customer satisfaction, achieve consistency, and improve internal processes. It can also minimise the risk that customer expectations are not met.

ISO 9001 Certification shows you are serious about your business.

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US house prices enjoy biggest increase for nearly seven years

Posted on: Friday, May 31st, 2013 | Category: News category 1

US house prices accelerated by the most in nearly seven years in March as the spring buying season gave the sector traction, while surging consumer confidence pointed to some resilience for the economic recovery.

The S&P/Case Shiller composite index of 20 metropolitan areas climbed 10.9pc year over year, beating expectations for 10.2pc. This was the biggest increase since April 2006, just before prices peaked in the summer of that year.

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Prices in the 20 cities gained 1.1pc in March compared to the month before, on a seasonally adjusted basis, topping economists’ forecasts for a 1pc rise.

The housing market turned a corner in 2012, several years after its far-reaching collapse.

The recovery has picked up since as inventory has tightened, foreclosures eased and historically low mortgage rates have attracted buyers.

Posted on: Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013 | Category: News category 1

The technology giant is widely forecast to announce a decline in earnings amid reports of a slowdown in sales of its iPhone and suggestions that the company has lost crucial ground to rivals such as Samsung.

Just last week Apple lost its position as the world’s most valuable publicly traded company when its shares hit their lowest levels in a year-and-a-half.

This came after one of the firm’s suppliers – Cirrus Logic which provides sound components for the iPhone and iPad – said sales of a particular chip were slowing down.

Industry observers expect today’s report to show a dip in profits of up to about 20 per cent, compared with the same period last year.

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Posted on: Monday, February 25th, 2013 | Category: News category 1

ISO 9001 is about a Quality Management System (QMS). QMS in organisations is not optional – it is the way the organisation operates. Quality is all the activities that are performed that contribute to successfully satisfying the customer. By definition that is the activities and processes performed by people, their responsibilities, how they process what information in order to make decisions – everything that goes on in an organisation in order to get good product out the door. A management system over quality aims to ensure that all of these activities, tasks, etc. are performed in an effective manner. That does not mean overly documented procedures, bureaucratic supporting activities that are not value driven, not records nor activities for the sake of “a standard”. Quality is ONLY about satisfying customers and managing it should be in a sensible and effective way. That is a Quality Management System.
ISO 9001 is not a program. It is a set of requirements that represent a good model for helping us assess and improve our QMS, if we choose. Certification…that’s a different matter!
All organisations have a QMS – it is what they do, and when asked to prove they have a good one, the question of ISO 9001 comes up. Faced with having to take that next step and compare ISO to their QMS, apply additional controls and then to seek certification, they want to minimise the cost. Problem is that many organisations overly complicate and overly bureaucratise their system. They think they have to do “more”. They want to minimise that cost and so they limit the extent of where ISO is applied. Limit the extent of ISO in the organisation and that reduces the audit effort and cost.
Some organisations will argue that parts of their facility or product range do not need to be ISO certified. Often they will claim that some organisational processes are too simple, too complex, confidential (secret) or that they will seek certification in a staged approach and some areas will not be certified immediately (and often never are). Usually they find they have to become ISO certified because a customer is pressuring them and therefore they want to limit it to those areas of their organisation relevant to that customer.
QMS is everywhere in the organisation, ISO is designed to help us do it better and if it is restricted to specific areas it means that some parts of the organisation are operated in a formal, disciplined and controlled manner and others are not. It doesn’t mean they are badly run but it isn’t possible for management to know that they are well run.
If there is true understanding and commitment to quality, not specifically to ISO but to ensuring customers are satisfied, then the QMS will be formalised with appropriate controls across the whole organisation. That is, after all, how the organisation operates and an appropriate level of control is necessary to make sure that all parts of the organisation are controlled appropriately. How much of it, if any, is ISO certified is irrelevant.

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