Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The crazy thing is that it is a test of consistent quality rather than good quality which means that you can get it if you consistently produce 100% crap but that crap maintains a 100% low record. If you started to improve, you could lose your ISO rating and have to reapply! Gerry Slobodan Dimitrov wrote: > That's what I thought. Sounds like a good vehicle to build customer > confidence to me. > On the other hand, what if it's used to give a factory manager 15 > years of > hard labor should they lose an account? > S. Dimitrov > > > > From: "Gerry Walden" <gwpics@aol.com> > > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 08:57:44 +0000 > > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > > Subject: Re: [Leica] Just had to share > > > > Slobodan > > > > ISO 9000 is a European standard of consistent traceable performance. > If, > > for example, you produce widgits and 97% of your widgets are 100% > > correct then you would have systems in place to ensure that standard is > > maintained and if things went wrong then you would be able to trace > > where before anything left your factory. > > > > This is no use at all in photography and is something I did in a > > 'previous' life, but some major companies in the UK will only contract > > to ISO 9000 standard providers and therefore in the construction > > industry the comment on that page of my web site just may make somebody > > book me over another photographer. > > > > I am sure you know what marketing is about - being able to bullshit > > better than the next guy! > > > > Gerry. > > http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Gerry Walden LRPS www.gwpics.com +44 23 8046 3076 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html