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With the emergence of ISO certification and the dominance of the cutting-edge competition, every business is required to conduct an internal audit. Some companies have already built an in-house department for an audit while others depend on the outsourced services. What is this internal audit, what are the purposes of this assessment? How should an organization determine that they are doing it right? Well, this blog is ready to address all of your curiosities. Let us start with the basics-definition. What is Internal Audit? Internal audit refers to the internal controls or management control of an organization. These controls may include its corporate governance along with the accounting processes. Only a few companies have an in-house team for conducting audit while most of the companies prefer hiring independent internal audit services . What are the Purposes of this Audit? These days, most of the businesses are inclining towards ISO certifications for which int...

Most of the entrepreneurs are aware of the existence of the latest version of ISO 9001 that was published in 2015. The TL Requirement Handbook or RHB contains all the ISO 9001 requirements. As per the experts, the latest version of the quality assurance standard will drive a new RHB Release 6.0. The International Organization for Standardization has already declared that the pair of the new RHB R6 and the existing measurement handbook R5.0 is going to be known as TL 9000:2016. There are many ISO consultancies that are offering premium consulting services to ensure this certification. These services also define the standard and its requirements to their clients so that they can understand how to proceed further. TL9000 is a company level certification that is centered round TL9000 Quality Management System Handbook designed by the Quest Forum. Though this Handbook includes all clauses stated in ISO9001, it has been developed for communication industry, in particular. It highlight...

Certification to ISO 17025 is designed for assuring that the calibration report issued by a certified laboratory has been correctly assessed and found to meet all the relevant compliances. It instills the confidence in the target audience of a laboratory by demonstrating its reliability and efficiency. It can be considered as a sign of laboratory accreditation scheme. However, the International Organization for Standardization or ISO has introduced a new version of this calibration-reporting standard in 2017 to update its content. This blog is going to analyze the new version of ISO 17025 accreditation . Reasons behind the Revision In most of the times, ISO keeps introducing new versions to keep their standards align with the changing market requirements trends. Certification to ISO 17025 is no exception. This standard was introduced in the year 2005 for the first time. Since then, the market has gone through massive changes. Moreover, technology and calibration technologies ...

The integration of quality management system into the supply chains has become mandatory not only in the manufacturing industry in the United States of America but all over the world. In a recent research , practices required for quality management have been made to disseminate across the supply chains. Honestly speaking, in the previous years, ISO 9001 had been admired more by European and Asian countries in comparison to the USA. The researchers have highlighted the lack of research in this field as the reason behind less popularity of quality assurance certification in the USA. However, now the scenario has been changed. In the USA, the interest in quality management system is rapidly increasing due to the remarkable growth of supply chains. This article is going to provide you with a clear insight into the relationship between ISO 9001 quality management and supply chain quality in the USA. Supply chain quality can be viewed from different perspectives, such as quality manage...

Do you know what the primary requirement of ISO certification is? You need to engage an authorized certification body. Certification body is an organization or company responsible for certifying the companies that request their services. If this certification body finds a business compliant with the requirements of the intended standard, they will announce them as certified to that particular standard. Every ISO standard has a different set of requirements, the certification body will investigate whether an organization has met the requirements or not. In this blog, we are going to discuss the process required for ISO 20000 certification so that you can easily make the certification body realize that you truly deserve the certification. What is ISO 20000 Standard? ISO 20000 standard has been designed for IT service providers so that they can plan, implement, demonstrate, operate, and monitor their IT service management system or SMS. This standard contains many principles sim...

ISO is an outcome of the union of two organizations- International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations (ISO) and United Standard Coordinating Committee (UNSCC). In the year 1946, almost 25 countries met in London and created a new international establishment to deal with international coordination and unification of industrial standards. From this organization, ISO began its journey. The word ISO is originated from a Greek word meaning “equal”. Major benefits of ISO standards include: • Increase of success on public and private tenders • Improvement of internal efficiency • Improvement of company image • Reduced operational cost • Subliminal promotion The most important ISO and related standards include ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 17025, ISO 13485, and AS 9100. Among these standards, AS 9100 is comparatively new. Many entrepreneurs are getting confused over ISO 9001 quality management and AS9100. In this article, we are going t...

Quality assurance methods cover the quality issues that are often seen in the products or services offered by a business. Lean and Six Sigma principles include several approaches and metrics to progress a process meant for promoting the efficiency of a business. These approaches can remove the defects and meet the flaws of the organization. These days, the companies should use a quality assurance approach, lean and six sigma principles together in a more generalized way. A combination of these approaches can help the organizations offer high-quality products or services with minimal defects in the best possible way. In this blog, we will discuss quality assurance certification , lean principles, and Six Sigma principles one by one. Quality Assurance Quality assurance methods define what functions a product or service must fulfill and which characteristics it must contain. They should be specific when defining the required resources. Apart from these, they should ensur...