During a visit to his native Cyprus, Chris Nicolaou says he finally realized how pervasive international quality standards have become when he glanced at the back of a bag of peanuts he bought. "It ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1904, electrical experts from around the world gathered in St. Louis. Noting that different countries had different names and units for electrical gear, they came up with the idea of creating an ...

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 ...

Many ISO 9000-certified companies prominently display their certification and registrar logo on their websites. Canton, Mich.-based A.D. Transport Express, which completed the transition to 2000 ...

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a federation of organizations that represent 92 member countries established in 1946 to "promote the development of international standards ...

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 ...

Over the past 25 years, the number of environmental regulations in the United States has increased exponentially. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, administers about 14 major and ...