MRG received it's renewal of ISO Certification. ISO 9001 : 2008 is effective until December 2015.
What does it mean to be ISO Certified?
The ISO 9000 family of standards is related to quality management systems and designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to the product. The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and available through National standards bodies. ISO 9000 deals with the fundamentals of quality management systems, including the eight management principles on which the family of standards is based. ISO 9001 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard have to fulfill.
To be truly ISO certified, each facility is audited annually by an outside specialists. If a company says the "follow and ISO Plan", they are not being audited and do not have a certificate showing compliance to a plan. the new ISO Standard is also build upon Continuous Improvements systems. To achieve certification, a company needs to be audited year after year for compliance.
Summary of ISO 9001:2008
2. determines what to do with a bad product,
3. deals with the root cause of problems, and
4. keeps records to use as a tool to improve the system.
What does it mean to be ISO Certified?
The ISO 9000 family of standards is related to quality management systems and designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to the product. The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and available through National standards bodies. ISO 9000 deals with the fundamentals of quality management systems, including the eight management principles on which the family of standards is based. ISO 9001 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard have to fulfill.
To be truly ISO certified, each facility is audited annually by an outside specialists. If a company says the "follow and ISO Plan", they are not being audited and do not have a certificate showing compliance to a plan. the new ISO Standard is also build upon Continuous Improvements systems. To achieve certification, a company needs to be audited year after year for compliance.
Summary of ISO 9001:2008
- The quality policy is a formal statement from management, closely linked to the business and marketing plan and to customer needs.
- The quality policy is understood and followed at all levels and by all employees. Each employee works towards measurable objectives.
- The business makes decisions about the quality system based on recorded data.
- The quality system is regularly audited and evaluated for conformance and effectiveness.
- Records show how and where raw materials and products were processed to allow products and problems to be traced to the source.
- The business determines customer requirements.
- The business has created systems for communicating with customers about product information, inquiries, contracts, orders, feedback, and complaints.
- When developing new products, the business plans the stages of development, with appropriate testing at each stage. It tests and documents whether the product meets design requirements, regulatory requirements, and user needs.
- The business regularly reviews performance through internal audits and meetings. The business determines whether the quality system is working and what improvements can be made. It has a documented procedure for internal audits.
- The business deals with past problems and potential problems. It keeps records of these activities and the resulting decisions, and monitors their effectiveness.
- The business has documented procedures for dealing with actual and potential nonconformances (problems involving suppliers, customers, or internal problems).
- The business:
2. determines what to do with a bad product,
3. deals with the root cause of problems, and
4. keeps records to use as a tool to improve the system.