ISO at Cole Hersee

Our ISO certificate

Cole Hersee is certified to ISO9001:2000

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a consortium of representatives from the world's industrialized countries. Its purpose is to promote the development of standardization across the world, which is necessary to smooth the wheels of world trade.

An ISO certificate is a standard that is earned regularly as the result of a third-party audit.
It indicates to the world that a company has
a well-documented quality standard and procedures, along with records of compliance to those quality standards.

Cole Hersee has proudly maintained
its ISO status since 1993.

An even higher level of quality

In today's fast-paced marketplace,
the key to success is quality.

All over the world leading-edge companies continuously work to improve the quality of their products and services, while at the same time reducing costs. Most of these companies have embraced quality management systems such as ISO 9000, which make quality concepts and principles an integral part of daily life.
Cole Hersee Company has achieved and maintained ISO 9001 certification since 1993. But there is a new highly specialized standard for automotive suppliers called ISO9001:2000

Where the new higher standard came from
The Big Three (Chrysler, Ford and General Motors) saw a need for a neutral forum where supplier and manufacturer concerns could be discussed.
They formed a joint Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force with the job of looking at the mountains of paperwork, and the convoluted procedures
that had grown up over the years
between suppliers and manufacturers.
They perceived that there was an overpowering
need for standardization and better regulation
of procedures. Better understanding and improved control would point out where errors were being made, and thus save time and money for those who were manufacturing, selling and buying a product.
The task force began to create standards
with an alphabet-soup of names.

The new ISO9001:2000 is the common supplier
quality standard for the Big Three,
which was based upon the 1994 revision
of ISO 9001. However, over 100 additional requirements were added on top of ISO 9001
to make it more specific to our industry.
These extra requirements are all auditable,
which means that they must be continuously monitored and subject to checking
by a third-party authority.

Before ISO9001:2000 was released
for the automotive industry, the heavy truck industry had been proceeding along parallel lines,
and in 1994 the member companies
of the Truck Advisory Group Quality Committee
of the AIAG also agreed to adopt the standard.
This brought the heavy-hitters of the trucking industry (Freightliner, Mack Truck, Navistar,
PACCAR, and Volvo GM Heavy Truck)
into agreement on standards.

ISO9001:2000 is the quality standard
for suppliers to the major truck and car manufacturers.
It is based upon and includes ISO 9001,
but with the addition of many extra auditable requirements.

It is therefore a higher level standard that is specific to our industry.

We at Cole Hersee are always looking to improve,
and we wholeheartedly embrace this more stringent set of requirements. We are proud to have maintained certification on the higher
9001:2000 standard.

ISO: International Organization for Standardization

TUV: ISO registrar for Cole Hersee and other companies

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