The ISO 9001 Auditing Practices Group (APG), an informal group of quality management system experts, auditors, and practitioners drawn from the International Accreditation Forum (IAF)...

The Baldrige Performance Excellence Program, which administers the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, has decided not to run the award program in 2022. According...

The ISO technical committee responsible for developing, managing, and updating the ISO 9000 standards series has decided to develop a design specification for a...

by Steven Severt Producing nonconforming product is costly. Your organization has paid for labor to produce the nonconforming product and expended available equipment time and...

by Steven Severt When you think of your quality management system (QMS), do you instantly think of document control, as if the two terms are...

by Steven Severt The adage of “do what you say and say what you do” is tossed around so often when talking about ISO 9001 that many...

The Standards Council of Canada (SCC) is seeking feedback on ISO’s proposal for the development of a new standard on Quality management systems—Guidelines for...

ASQ, the leading global quality association, has been awarded a contract by the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) to assist in administering...

The International Organization for Standardization has released ISO 10013:2021, Quality management systems—Guidance for documented information. This document replaces ISO/TR 10013:2001. In addition to updating terminology...

By Vincent Cafiso Many of us in the quality profession are fully aware of and in most cases participate in our organization’s internal quality audit...