Implementation of the ISO 9000 quality assurance standards results in an improvement in business performance through their impact on specific company operations. Studies evaluated by ISO show benefits ...

THE International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was founded in Europe in 1947 and is based in Geneva. Its purpose being to facilitate the world-wide trade through the development of ...

Companies obtain certification under the ISO 9000 standards to demonstrate that their quality management program complies with the ISO 9001 standard. The now-obsolete ISO 9002 standard applied to ...

The Capability Maturity Model for software (CMM) developed by the software engineering institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the ISO 9000 series of standards, developed by the ...

DETROIT - QS 9000, the Big 3's quality standard for manufacturing, is about to be replaced. The Big 3 are requiring that suppliers be certified in a new global standard called TS 16949. By 2006, QS ...

International standards play an increasingly important role in the world economy. Research in the field of economics on standardisation has focused on addressing the question of how and in which ...

ISO 9000 is a set of international standards of quality management that have become increasingly popular for large and small companies alike. Adherence is accomplished through an application process ...