INSTITUTIONS & ONLINE RESOURCES / E-ZINES

• International Organization for Standardization  (ISO) 
• ISO 9001 Auditing Practice Group (ISO Publication)
• International Register of Certificated Auditors  (IRCA) 
• IRCA Knowledge Bank - Auditing Guidance (IRCA Publication)
• IRCA INform e-zine (IRCA Publication)
• American Society for Quality (ASQ) 
• Quality Progress Magazine  (ASQ Publication) 
• Chartered Quality Institute(CQI) 
• Quality World (CQI Publication)
• Journal of Quality (CQI Publication)
• British Standards Institute   (BSI) 
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
• Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award (MBNQA) 
• European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) 
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 
• Quality Digest 
• Elsmar Cove 
• Business Balls 
• 1000 Ventures 
• 12Manage.com 

• BIP 2020:2007 Beyond Registration. Getting the best from ISO 9001 and business improvement  
• BS ISO 10001:2007 Quality management. Customer satisfaction. Guidelines for codes of conduct for organizations 
• Knowledge management 

QUALITY LINKS  (courstesy of Quality Digest, with added resources along the way)

Topic Areas 

• Agile Manufacturing
• Baldrige
• Best Practices
• Calibration Services
• Consultants
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Customer Satisfaction
• EDM
• General Quality
• Industry Specific Sites
• Inspection Services
• ISO 14000 and Environmental Issues
• ISO 9000
• ISO 9000/QS-9000
• Job Search
• Learning Organizations, Schools, Technical Institutes
• Libraries or Resources
• Management Quality
• Materials Standards Organizations and Societies
• New Product Development
• Online Stores
• Performance Management
• Quality Function Deployment
• Six Sigma
• Software and Software Testing
• State and Government Quality Awards and Programs
• System Dynamics
• TL9000
• Tradehref="http://qualitydigest.com/standards/index.lasso" Associations
• University Seminars
• U.S. Government Organizations and Related Links
• W. Edwards Deming
• Health Care

ISO 9000

• ISO 9000
• Cayman Systems Cove--QS-9000 
• QMSUK - ISO 9001 certifcation and training
• Center for Continuous Quality Improvement 
• Center for Quality, Eastern Michigan University 
• Escoe/Bliss Communication 
• ISO - QS 9000 Co-op & Info. Exchange 
• ISO 9000/QS 9000 Support Group 
• ISO 9000 Forum, Japan 
• ISO 9000 2000 Translated Into Plain English 
• ISO 9001:2000 Journal and Resource Center 
• ISO Easy! 
• ISO Online 
• ISO1Stop.com 
• National Quality Institute Canadian QMS Auditor Certification Program 
• Quality and Validation Engineering 
• Quality Clinics 
• Quality Management International 
• Registrar Accreditation Board 
• Southeast Industries ISO Forum

Baldrige

• Baldrige Assessment and Improvement Implementation
• Baldrige Based Organizational Assessment Software--Free Demo
• Baldrige Plus
• Best Practices--All Things Baldrige
• Finnevo Oy -- Knowledge Applications for Improvement
• Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award 

EDM 

• EDM.com--EDM Internet Directory 

System Dynamics 

• System Dynamics in Education (MIT)

Industry Specific Sites 

• Can Network--Metal Packaging Industry
• PdMA--Electrical Reliability

Learning Organizations 

• Apothecary School of Technology
• Corporate University Establishment and Knowledge Management
• Knowledge Management & Org. Learning

W. Edwards Deming 

• Deming Electronic Network ( Clemson Univ.)
• W. Edwards Deming (MIT)
• W. Edwards Deming Institute

Best Practices 

• best-practice.com
• Best Manufacturing Practices
• Oak Ridge Centers for Manuf. Technology
• The Six Sigma Exchange

New Product Development 

• Cycle Time Reduction in New Product Development
• Product Development Forum

Continuous Quality Improvement 

• Center for Continuous Quality Improvement
• Conquer Complacency
• Continuous Quality Improvement Server
• Continuous Quality Improvement
• Developing a Continuous Quality Improvement Environment

Job Search 

• Management Search Inc.
• Myers and Associates--Search Specialists 

General Quality 

• Association for Quality and Participation
• Benchmarking Exchange
• Canada/New Brunswick Business Service Centre
• Center for Continuous Quality Improvement
• Center for Quality, Eastern Michigan University
• Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement
• Community Quality Page
• CompliancNET Directory
• Crazy About Constraints!
• Ecalibration
• EuroQual
• Executive Excellence
• Feed Forward--In house engineering training
• Goal QPC
• Indian Quality Products
• Juran Institute
• Kwaliteit op Internet
• Leadership--Philip Crosby
• LK Inc. -- CMM Information Online
• Mimetek -- Information and Knowledge in Design, Manufacturing, and Inspection
• National Quality Institute Canada
• National Quality Initiative
• Network for Excellence in Manufacturing Online
• On the Edge
• Online Quality Resource List
• QCI International
• Qualinet
• Quality Engineering & Manufacturing Association
• Quality Management in Germany
• Quality Management Principle Site
• Quality Plaza
• Qualnet
• Rath & Strong
• Rochester Institute of Technology Center for Quality and Applied Statistics
• Scalies Business Management Systems
• SkyMark Management Knowledge Base
• Statistics Links & Other Misc.
• Tantara Management Services
• Taylor Enterprises
• Tom Peters
• Total Quality Control Home Page
• Virtual Conference Center
• Whole Systems

U.S. Government Organizations 

• Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center
• Air Force Quality Institute
• American National Standards Institute
• Contractor Performance Certification Program
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Manufacturing Extension Partnership
• Government Contracts and Surplus Equipment
• Management.gov--Quality Management in Government
• National Institute of Standards & Technology
• National Performance Review
• Office of the Secretary of Defense Quality Management Office

Materials Standards Organizations and Societies 

• ASM International Home Page
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• National Association of Corrosion Engineers

Trade Associations 

• American Iron and Steel Institute
• American Productivity and Quality Center
• American Society for Quality
• American Society for Quality--Pine Tree State Section
• American Society for Testing and Materials
• American Statistical Association
• ARMA Association of Records Managers and Administrators
• Association of Iron and Steel Engineers
• National Quality Institute Canada
• Registrar Accreditation Board
• Society of Automotive Engineers
• Society of Manufacturing Engineers
• Southern California Quality Assurance Association Los Angeles Chapter
• Standards & Industrial Research Institute of Malaysia
• Steel Foundation, The

ISO 14000 and Environmental Issues 

• American Society for Quality
• Carnegie-Mellon Engineering's Green Initiative
• Consortium on Green Design and Manuf., UC Berkeley
• Directory of Companies Registered to
• Ecological Operating Systems (Gil Friend)
• Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network
• Exploring ISO 14000
• globeNet
• IIS On-Line (ISO14000)
• International Environmental Standard
• National Environmental Information Service
• New SimaPro Life Cycle Assessment Tool
• O2 Global Network
• Quality Management International
• Registrar Accreditation Board
• Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
• Solvent Alternatives Guide
• Environmental Management Centre

Quality Function Deployment 

• QFD-NASA
• QFD Training and Implementation Assistance
• Quality Function Bibliography
• Quality Function Deployment
• Quality Functional Deployment Institute 

Libraries or Resources 

• Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library
• Multisimplex Experimental Design and Optimization 

Online Stores 

• bizmanuals.com
• Engineer's Edge
• ISO 9000 Store
• ISO-Online
• Transcat--Calibration, test, measurement & control solutions
• QSoft Buyers Guide (software, books and videos)
• QualityCoach.Net   (books, video, software)
• Wilcoxon Research (vibration instrumentation)

State and Government Quality Awards and Programs 

• Excellence in Missouri Foundation
• Maine Quality Council
• North Carolina Quality Award
• Pensacola Area Total Quality Council
• Quality Council of Alberta
• Team Quality Award of Western Pennsylvania
• Tennessee Quality Award
• Tri-State Regional Quality Award
• Washington Quality Initiative

Agile Manufacturing 

• Agile and Advanced Manufacturing (Sandia Labs) 

Health Care 

• Healthcare Quality Management Consultants
• Joint Comm. for the Accreditation of Healthcare Orgs .
• National Committee for Quality Assurance 

Performance Management 

• Alacrity Inc. 

Consultants 

• Adams Six Sigma 
• Automated Testing Specialists 
• AXEON Inc. (ISO 9000) 
• Benchmarking Group 
• Bret Pettichord--Software test 
• Caliso
• Center for Continuous Quality Improvement  
• Center for Quality, Eastern Michigan University 
• Collier & Associates 
• Comprehensive Baldrige Criteria-based Improvement 
• Core Business Solutions 
• Corporate Quailty Management Systems-CQMS 
• Cypress Group 
• The Crosby Company 
• DecisionCraft Analytics 
• Dennis Anderson Associates 
• Digital Metrology Solutions Inc. 
• Eduvision Inc. 
• Emergo Group Inc. 
• Feigenbaum and Total Quality 2000 
• Field Reliability 
• Follmer Rudzewicz Advisors Inc. 
• General Systems Co. 
• Gladhill Associates International 
• Guaspari & Salz 
• Hillside Software Publishing Ltd. 
• Human Quality Educational Products 
• International Institute of Consulting and Training 
• International Quality Services 
• ISO 9000 Quality Systems 
• ISO-Online 
• Juran Institute 
• Leap-Workout 
• Maset LLC 
• MMI Management Consultants 
• NOVA Quality Communications--Instruction and training materials 
• Online ISO 9000 Coaching 
• Productivity Improvement Center 
• Professional Technology Systems Inc. 
• Pro Q.C. Systems 
• QM Consulting 
• QSA Company 
• Qualiteam Quest--ISO 9000 Implementation 
• Quality Plus--CQI, Quality, ISO 9000 
• Quality Logic 
• Quality System Designs--ISO 9000 Consulting 
• Quality Systems Management 
• Quest Analytical--ISO 9000 and GLP 
• Rothman Consulting Group Inc.--Software and IT 
• Satisfice Inc.--Software test consulting 
• Software Systems Quality Consulting 
• SPC Statistical Productivity Consultants 
• Systema Group 
• Testing Foundations--Software testing 
• Whittington Associates 

Software and Software Testing 

• Allied Testing
• Amadeus International - Web-enabled Integrated Standards Management System Software
• Asset Management
• Automated Testing Specialists
• Bamboo Solutions
• Bret Pettichord--Software test
• BugAware
• Bug Defect Tracking
• Bug-Tracker
• Change Management Expert
• CMM Approach to Software Development
• Datakel Information Setvices--FMEA Software
• Elementool--Free Bug and Support Tracking Tool
• Entropy International ISO 14001 Software
• Field Reliability
• Gran PM -- Web-based bug tracking
• Hillside Software Publishing Ltd.
• Ideagen Standards Management
• Indago Corp.
• Intelex Software for Standards
• ISO 9001 Compliance
• ISO-Online
• Oscar Software--QS-9000 Software
• QMX-Quality Management Software
• Q-Success
• Quality On-Line
• Rothman Consulting Group Inc.--Software and IT
• Satisfice Inc.--Software test consulting
• Testing Foundations--Software testing
• TDOC -- Document Control for the Construction and Engineering Industries
• To The Point -- Web-based ISO 9000 Software
• Trackware Inc.--Document Control, Training, Audit, and Corrective Action Software
• Triangle Management

Calibration Products and Services 

• Edison ESI
• NW Contract Inspection
• Sea Innovations
• Transcat Calibration and Repair 

University Seminars, Online Courses 

• Center for International Standards and Quality at Georgia Institute of Technology
• Industrial Extension Service of North Carolina State University
• Online Course in Statistical Process Control
• UW-Milwaukee--Center of Continuing Engineering Education

TL9000 

• QuEST Forum 

Six Sigma 

• All Six Sigma
• Adams Six Sigma
• Applying Six Sigma to Achieve a Cultural Change
• Center for Quality, Eastern Michigan University
• iSixsigma
• Six Sigma Systems
• The Six Sigma Exchange
• Open Sources Six Sigma

  Lean 

• Learn Lean Blog 
• Evolving Excellence 
• Super Factory 
• Gemba.com   

Management Quality (the quality of the management function) 

• Inutsikt AB

Customer Satisfaction 

• Customer-x-pectations 

Inspection Services 

• QC Inspection Services