Internal Benefits of ISO 9001 Registration
- Documentation control is upgraded
- Increases and reinforces quality awareness
- Improved corporate culture that embraces quality
- Employees are invested in the company’s mission and feel pride in their jobs
- Job performance increases
- Practices and processes are streamlined and codified, resulting in consistency
- Retention of company and process knowledge
- More robust understanding of customer requirements
- Processes are in place to assure the right information is available when you need it
- Supplier accountability
- Scrap and rework costs are drastically reduced
- Returns, warranties, and lost sales are reduced and cost less
- Employee probability for errors is significantly reduced or even eliminated
- Protocols are set in place to help prevent recurring errors and problems
- Clear evaluation policies to review quality processes and provide more consistent feedback.
External ISO Certification Benefits
- Improves your quality (and business) system
- Provides a competitive edge in marketing when you are ISO certified
- Meet manufacturing requirements that, typically, need Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers be ISO certified
- Improve your business’s reputation
- Boost your bottom line with increased revenue