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ISO 9001:2000 Accreditation Award

7th February 2003

 
POETON ACHIEVES ISO9001:2000 A YEAR EARLY

With the current ISO9002:1994 standard due to become extinct at the end of 2003, many companies will be busy preparing for their ISO9001:2000 audits to ensure that they complete the transition from one standard to the other within the allotted three-year period.

However, one company that doesn't need to rush is surface coating specialist Poeton Industries, which has been approved a year early in December 2002, following two double audits.

Explains quality manager Rob Smart: "The new standard is a process approach to systems management, focused on continual improvement and customer satisfaction. From the outset we decided to include research & development to the scope of our approval yet still completed in just eighteen months."

He claims that Poeton is the only surface coating company to include R&D and design in its accreditation scope, and says that the extra work, which involved Poeton's R&D manager Dr John Archer, included a complete overhaul of R&D procedures, coating database, sample systems and feedback documentation.

"At the time it created a great deal of extra work, but in the long run it will benefit both Poeton and our customers." He says.

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File: ISO9001:2000