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Yehavi Bourvine [yehavi@vms.huji.ac.il] asks:-

>Hi,
>  I read (breifly...) the ISO-9,000 documents and have one major thing I did
>not understand: The standards talk about having a *documented* quality control
>system. Now, when some enterprise gets qualification for ISO-9,000 does it
>means that it simply works according to its quality control scheme, or does
>some professional organization checks that the quality control system is
>adequate?
>                                   Thank you in advance, __YEhavi:
>
To qualify, you have to have your Quality management System [QMS]
certified by an accredited organisation. The accreditation organisation will
come and examine your quality management system, procedures documentation etc.
and advise you on whether you comply with the standard or not. If you comply,
they will issue you the accreditation certificate. Only when you have this
certificate of compliance can you call yourself an accredited company.

Here in England, there are a number of companies who offer BS5750 accreditation
services; BS5750 is the British quality standard [national implementation
of ISO9000].

The big problem is selecting a reputable company to do your accreditation.
When looking at an organisation's ISO9000 or BS5750 accreditation, look to
see who it was issued by; remember anyone can sell you an impressive looking,
but worthless, certificate.

        Peter J.M. Lucas    NERC Computer Services     Swindon   England
pjml@swmis.nsw.ac.uk    or   pjml@uk.ac.nsw.swmis    or   g6wbj@gb7sdn.gbr.eu
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