What does ISO 9000 mean for them?
No one, at this point, knows for sure where domestic compliance with ISO certification is headed. The number of certified U.S. companies is in the hundreds. Compare that to more than 15,000 certifications in Britain alone. ISO certification has made a start in the U.S., but it’s nowhere close to the program’s pervasiveness in the EC. It is questionable whether the dissemination of ISO in the United States will cascade down the supplier chain, like SPC (statistical process control) compliance did. Rather than requiring certification as ante in contract negotiations, most primary manufacturers have, so far, only endorsed ISO standards as a good idea. Part of this is because so many of the primes have not yet, themselves, achieved compliance. But regardless of the what transpires relative to forced or unforced compliance, it is clear that the standard represents an excellent way to apply world-class evaluation to a company’s manufacturing processes. And in doing so, companies can reap add
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