I worked at a company who was integrating iso 9001 and it's ridiculous how much they needed it.
It mainly comes down to documenting processes and data storage. We had a ton of people get sick and the factory didn't miss a single day, I was able to read up on the necessary procedures and pick up where others left off.
My issue is with the lack of a USA based standard that is optimized for our unique freedom. We had to pay a guy to study ISO 9001 and weed out and/or translate the stuff we didn't need.
ISO 9001 is actually super useful.
I worked at a company who was integrating iso 9001 and it's ridiculous how much they needed it.
It mainly comes down to documenting processes and data storage. We had a ton of people get sick and the factory didn't miss a single day, I was able to read up on the necessary procedures and pick up where others left off.
My issue is with the lack of a USA based standard that is optimized for our unique freedom. We had to pay a guy to study ISO 9001 and weed out and/or translate the stuff we didn't need.
Ya. ISO is hung up on European Statism. Like defining a character encoding that is truly universal. They failed so hard at it, a small consortium of U.S. companies created a non-profit that completely stole a march on them. And it was implemented by two U.S. hackers in one night.
A bit more about the Unicode Consortium's UTF-8 is here.
This is why we need US-based standards, ISO is primarily useful for global buyouts and takeovers.
Even Bell Labs has been bought out by Nokia. :I
Try a spreadsheet, for a job check off and sign , I did my job. Works great.