Good description. There's another fairly new one called TL9000 (for
Telecommunications Leadership) that most of the telecomm companies are,
or soon will be, signing up for. TL9000 includes all of the ISO9000
requirements plus fourty some "adders" peculiar to the telecomm
industry. In short, if a company takes quality seriously, and if you
have buy in from the top down, you WIL have a better company in the
long run. Having worked for three different ISO9001 companies (Texas
Instruments, Raytheon, and Motorola), one of those also being a
Baldridge winner (TI), and another also being TL9000 qualified
(Motorola), I can vouch for this.
73,
Brad, W5CGH
> We are both ISO9001 and QS9000 registered. ISO9001 (not ISO9000) is
> required when the business also does design work. If the business is
> only for manufacturing, then ISO9002 applies. QS9000 is the quality
> systems specification for the automotive marketplace. You don't do
> tier-one business with any automotive manufacturer (domestic or
> international) today without this QS9000 approval. QS9000 is very
> much
> like ISO9001 on steroids.
>
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