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Monday, 09 February 2009 16:05 |
“There is no substitute for practical experience! One of the most important ingredients an ISO 9000 consultant can bring is that they have actually been a part of an ISO 9000 registration (rather than merely talking about it). Experience will often allow clients to avoid costly mistakes and most certainly will reduce the learning curve-which will always prove to be a good investment”
Dr. Jack E. Small, in his book “ISO 9000 for Executives” Lanchester Press
The Major Reasons For Registering for ISO 9000 are :
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Customers Say You Have To
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Competition is Doing It
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To Get One Step Ahead of The Competition
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Restructure Your Business
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Need to obtain CE mark or Kite Mark
Very Few Companies Do It Initially To Improve Their Business.
Of Those That Do however:
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89% Report increased efficiency
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48% Report increased profit
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76% Report increased Marketing
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26% Report increased Export Sales
This is brought about by the following improvements:
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Error reduction resulting from better systematic inspection and testing.
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Error reduction resulting from Increased employee participation, involvement, awareness and systematic employee training.
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Better products resulting from better design control.
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Improved productivity resulting from planning and teamwork.
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Reduction in costs associated with failures.
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Resolution of nonconformance and adoption of corrective and preventive action in a systematic way.
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Improved communications both internally and externally which usually improves quality, efficiency, on time delivery and customer / supplier relations.
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Recognition of compliance by an unbiased organisation! (One assessment by an accredited registrar usually satisfies the quality system requirements of many customers.)
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