Industry moving away from 3rd party registration

1
Group 2

• Industry moving away from 3rd party registration

2
Discussion and Clarification

• Difficulty understanding challenge
• Contracts require eg. ISO certification.
• Here is meant that industry is moving away from
  certification.
• For instance in Poland and other countries it is
  the other way around.
• There are too many audits.
• Non customer required certification.
• This observation is not shared around the table.

What is the value of certification and how is it
helping us?
3
Stakeholders

• Accreditors certification bodies
• TC 176
• Prime Suppliers sub suppliers
• Acquirer and end users
• GQA organization

4
Impacts (1)

• No change
• Increased GQA activities and/or a change for GQA
  strategy
• Risk of reduced quality levels
• Loss of Standardization of terminology
• Increase of cost (rework)
• No contract to best supplier because of lack of
  certification

5
Impacts (2-1)

• Successful change
• Certifications are valued
• Convince suppliers of the benefits of
  certification
• It is a drive for continuous improvement
• Customers help to convince suppliers of the
  benefits of certification
• Reduce costs
• Able to measure and compare key performance,
  Define performance indicators
• Increased activities for accreditors and
  certifiers

6
Impacts (2-2)

• Cont. .
• Improve the certification process
• Customer/Acquirer feedback into the certification
  process
• Standardization of terminology
• Increase of awarding the best supplier
• Improve quality levels
• Reduce GQA activities
• More return of investment

7
Strategy for change

• Suppliers sharing audit results across the
  community
• Developing an analysis tool to assess a
  relationship between the quality of the product
  and the quality of the certifier
• Developing an analysis tool to assess a
  relationship between the quality of the product
  and the quality of the supplier
• Acquirer input to the certifier
• System and product failures
• Throughout the life cycle of the contract
• Develop and/or improve a complaint process
  (acquirers)
• Develop a method to determine the cost of
  certification