ISO Compliant

[Hymen]

I'm wondering what the description of an ISO Compliant shop is? I understand ISO Certification in a shop, but whats the description of a ISO Compliant Shop/ job shop specifically.

 

How many of you are in/own/run a Non-Compliant shop, Compliant Shop, or a Certified Shop?

[Guest]

ISO, we have to be with all the government, space and defense stuff we do, plus all the global customers.

 

We don't have a choice

[Hymen]

Would anyone care to explain the differences/requirement of compliant to certified.

Or do you have a kink you could share?

I could only find links to certification so far.

[Guest]

Compliant means you adhere to the method that would gain you certification. AFAIK, there are no requirements for compliant, brcause no one knows your compliant unless you go thru the formal certification.

 

Certification means you have spent a lot of $$$ to get your ducks in order and have had a certification firm come in a certify, you do what you say you do.

 

In my comppany if a firm claims to be comliant it means nothing, they may as well no even bother. You have to go thru and be certified.

[Matt @ Trio Tech]

Certification has alot to do with you paper work and paper trails. Everything is auditable. The way you store your material, type of documents on the shop floor, calibrated measuring equiptment and machinery, how you tie your shoes, etc. This reminds me, we have an audit at the end of this month....yikes.

[Tim Johnson]

This link might help you a bit.

[SLJ]

Aircraft version, AS9100. We were working on AS9102, but our major customer recommended rolling back to AS9100.

[CAM-mando]

Registration and ongoing maintenece has cost. You can be compliant to the a standard without being certified and registered.

 

If you have significant customers who perform their own audit of your quality system you can be compliant AND have external recognition with a given standard such as ISO 9XXX without actually paying for registration and ongoing costs of maintaining that registration.

 

For example in addition to our AS9100 approvals, we were audited by the government to ISO 9002. They provided us with a certificate that said we were found to be in compliance. This is not the same as certification by the registrar.

 

Some customers insist that vendors are registered others do not.

 

In some markets having the ISO logo with your registration number on your letterhead is good for marketing.

 

Although quality systems are important, as a customer, registration means little to me.