Tuesday 16 December 2014

Guide To ISO 9001 Consulting Services

By Lucia Weeks


The creation of Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology (JTC1) which gathered the material competence held by the CIS and the software expertise held by ISOS. JTC is the producer of most of Informatics on standards. ISOS is divided into about 200 technical committees (TC), each responsible for a particular area (ISO 9001 consulting services). In 1990s, under pressure from the rapid development of information technology, ISOS relaxed the standards development process, taking into account the activity of consortia, which we considered that it was not a threat against the official standardization system.

The operation of ISOS is the subject of criticism, particularly following strong pressure tactics or use of suspicions of corruption in some countries, such as Norway and Croatia by Microsoft in standardization process OpenXML office document format to bring voters to change their position in favor of interests of Microsoft6. It also criticized the ISOS to charge for access to a number of specifications, which is a problem for organizations or projects of limited means who would comply.

The ISOs Central Secretariat is located in Geneva, Switzerland. He assured members of ISOs technical and administrative support, coordinates the decentralized program standards development and proceeds to publication. ISOS is the largest standards organization in world. This is a non-governmental organization representing a network of national institutes of 165 countries, according to principle of one member per country.

October 19, 1918, the American Engineering Standards Committee (AESC) is created as a US national coordinator of standardization process. Its role is then to fight impartially against inaccuracies in design and level of acceptability of products and materials. The US Departments of War, Navy and Commerce joined that year the five founding organizations.

ISO scope regards standardization in all fields except electrical and electronics within competence of International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC, IEC). Some types of work carried out jointly by these organizations. In addition to ISOS standardization deals with problems of certification.

Hull is also concerned with the creation of common requirements for auditors for accreditation of testing laboratories and Performance Evaluation of accreditation bodies; mutual recognition of certificates of conformity of products and systems. DEVCO (DEVCO - Committee on developing country matters) examines requests from developing countries in field of standardization and develop recommendations to promote these countries in this field.

At present, the ISOS includes 165 countries their national standardization organizations. Russia is the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology as a committee. In total, more than 100 ISOS member bodies. In addition of member's membership in ISOS may have the status of corresponding members, which are the standards organizations in developing countries.

Category Member caller introduced for developing countries. Committees, members have the right to take part in proceedings of any ISOS technical committee vote on the draft standards, elected to the Board and to be represented at meetings of General Assembly. Corresponding Members (of 42) is not active in ISOS, but have the right to obtain information on developing a standard. Members of subscribers pay preferential contributions are able to be aware of international standardization.




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