ISO 9001 Certification

ISO 9001 belongs to a series of regulations on quality management systems:

• ISO 9000 - Fundamental principles and vocabulary: basic concepts of management systems and specific terminology adopted are outlined.
• ISO 9001 - Requirements: criteria to be respected in order to operate in compliance with the standard
• ISO 9004 - Performance improvement guidelines: with reference to the eight principles of quality management, they outline the tools to obtain a performance improvement in the respective organizations, harmonizing both customer needs and company needs.
• ISO 9001 is compatible and can perfectly be integrated with other rules and specifications related to management systems such as OHSAS 18001 (occupational health and safety), ISO 14001 (environment) e ISO 50001 (energetic efficiency). The benefits which a company can immediately detect adopting a management system according to ISO 9001 are briefly the following:
• it allows to obtain a competitive advantage;
• it imposes an analysis of business schemes encouraging a revision aimed at business performance improvement;
• it simplifies business risk measurement and management;
• it creates a moment of comparison among business areas which leads to simplify the operations and reduce the waste, through the review of internal processes;
• it encourages internal communication removing bottlenecks in information flow;
• it focuses the attention on customer needs which are conveniently highlighted with the final   purpose to guarantee the total satisfaction, through PDCA cycle (Plan, Do, Check, Act).