"David Lee" wrote in
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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 02:30:29 +0100, Colin Wilson
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So I am asking for a more formal phrase for "making sausages".

"carefully controlled process"
"fully monitored process"
"traditionally made"


Isn't that the same as ISO 9000?

Not at all - provided your work instructions lay down that your production
method should be totally chaotic with a complete lack of quality control
then provided that you can produce traceable documentation to prove that
this is how a paricular product was indeed produced then you are totally
compliant!


Isn't that how B-Liar & Co (a subsidary of AlistairMcLies) got the Hutton
Report through?

In fact the concept of "total quality" means that application of strict
controls to a process that you have defined as not requiring them is
non-compliant.

I've always been of the opinion the the title should be; - "Consistency"
rather than 'Quality'. Consistency, of product/process, is what is
guarenteed by the 'standards'.

The public can be terribly conned by companies claiming ISO 9000
accreditation - it doesn't guarantee good quality products but only well
documented and monitored production methods. If a company makes sausages
from crap ingredients then ISO 9000 means that they will always be able to
prove that the ingredients really were crap!

David

Indeed: a sewage works can be ISO 900, et seq. qualified and proudly fly its
flag - alongside its 'investors in People' [or at least their byproducts]!

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Brian