Get your own Free Home PageWhat is ISO 9000? It is a standard way of documenting your company's internal processes. The International Standards Organization (http://www.iso.ch/) based in Geneva, Switzerland, has issued this standard, and the big three automakers have set deadlines for all of their suppliers to comply with it.
ISO 9000 is a format for describing in excruciating detail everything that happens in your company. It includes three levels of documentation: Level 1 - Policy, Level 2 - Procedures, and Level 3 - Work Instructions. The policy documentation lists all the products and services provided by your company. The procedures documentation is a step by step description of how the product is manufacured, or how the service is provided. The work instructions are step by step instructions on how each employee does his job. That's how detailed the documentation is!
ISO 9000 includes a program for your company to be "registered." The ISO has designated three accrediting agencies; one for the Americas, one for Europe and Africa, and one for the Far East. The accrediting agencies approve certain "registrars" - companies that certify your company as meeting the standards of ISO 9000.
When you decide to comply with ISO 9000 (usually when your main customer tells you to comply, or he won't buy from you anymore) you hire a registrar (from the approved list), who also acts as a consultant. The registrar visits your company, interviews your employees, and tells you how to write your documentation. Then you write the documentation and submit it to the registrar. He then decides if it is thorough and accurate, based on his interviews with your employees. He also checks to see that the information is in the standard format. He will tell you what changes need to be made, and then you revise your documentation. This continues until the registrar is satisfied that your documentation complies with the standard. The process usually takes about a year and a half.
The relationship with the registrar is a permanent one. He continues to monitor your company to make sure your documentation is revised to reflect changes in your company. So if you don't keep your documentation current, you will be de-registered, and you will lose your customers.
Since July 31, 1997, Chrysler has required that all of their suppliers be registered. Since June 1995, Ford has required that all of their suppliers demonstrate compliance. (That is, Ford will do its own "registering".) Since January 1, 1996 General Motors has required that any new suppliers be registered. Companies that were already supplying parts had until December 31, 1997 to be registered. Second, third, etc. tier suppliers (suppliers to the suppliers) are required to have "second party verification" (there are not enough accredited registrars available to get everybody registered so soon) by December 1998.
Why the big push to require so many companies to be registered? The official line is that it helps you see what's going on in your company, helping you provide your product or service more efficiently and reliably. But why do the big, centralized customers need to know the internal processes of your company? ISO 9000 has nothing to do with form, fit, or function of your product! It deals entirely with the processes by which the product is made! ISO 9000 has nothing to do with your product's ability to do its intended job! It deals entirely with how your company makes its product! ISO 9000, the quality standard, has nothing to do with product quality! It deals entirely with how you run your company!
When something is so obviously mislabeled, it's a sure thing that its true purpose is very different than the purpose we're being told.
Why are the big, centralized customers micromanaging their suppliers? Why are they looking beyond the quality of the parts supplied, and looking at the internal processes of their suppliers? Market competition is enough motivation for any company to deliver quality parts on schedule. Why is this system of management being imposed in the place of market competition?
In this case, it's pretty obvious what can be done with the documentation being generated. All of these registrars keep copies of your documentation. They all monitor your company to make sure your documentation continues to reflect your processes. This is building a database of all the companies in the world: everything they do, everything they make, everything they own. This database is exactly the thing a central planner would need to impose a global planned economy!
If you're going to control the production of every product in the world, the first thing you need is a database of every production process in the world. The very database being generated by ISO 9000!
Of course they'll tell us that it's really more efficient this way, that the world industry can produce more goods for more people if it's all centrally planned. They're already using efficiency as a selling point! What they won't tell you is that, currently, when someone thinks up a new product, they go ahead and produce it and sell it. Under the new system, only products that are approved by the central planning agency will be allowed to be produced! The market (the consumers, the ulitmate form of democracy) will never have a chance to have any input into deciding what products may be made available for purchase!
They might have test marketing, to see what products the majority would want. But the products that make life truly interesting, the ones that only a minority of consumers ever buy, would never be allowed to be made! "A waste of resources! Just use only the things that we've decided are good for you!"
No manufacturer will be allowed to buy or sell without the ISO 9000 mark of approval. That is not just in the future! To a large extent, that is already the case right now! All three major automakers already buy only from ISO 9000 registered companies!
The choice is clear for any manufacturer: become ISO registered, or isolated!
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