IBS Helps Goodyear Achieve Quality Certification in Seven Facilities throughout Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LEXINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 31, 2004 IBS IBS Irritable bowel syndrome, see there QSi System Streamlines International Effort to Attain Quality, Safety and Environmental Certification in Less than 12 Months IBS America, Inc., one of the world's leading suppliers of Internet-based software and services for quality and compliance management, today announced that the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company's East Europe, Africa and Middle East (EEAME) business unit has gained full regional certification for quality, safety and environmental standards using its QSi System. The global standards organization A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, Bureau Veritas an institution, in the interest of maritime underwriters, for the survey and rating of vessels all over the world. It was founded in Belgium in 1828, removed to Paris in 1830, and reëstablished in Brussels in 1870. See also: Bureau Quality International (BVQi) issued the multi-site certification for Goodyear EEAME's regional headquarters in Brussels and six manufacturing facilities located in Turkey, Slovenia, Poland, Morocco and South Africa. Each of these locations is fully compliant with critical business standards including ISO/TS 16949:2002, ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 14001 & OHSAS OHSAS Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHSAS Occupational Health & Safety Assessment Series OHSAS Occupational Health and Safety Assessment Scheme (UK) 18001, Adapazari (Turkey), South Africa, Poland and Slovenia. ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, Izmit (Turkey) and Morocco. "Achieving a combined regional certificate covering all three disciplines--quality, environmental, and health and safety--in our six manufacturing facilities and our regional headquarters within a 12 month time frame was an incredibly ambitious goal," said Michelle Woodward, environmental, health and safety manager for the tire maker in Europe. "With QSi System, we built a process that allows us to audit, edit and manage the business management procedures of all seven locations at the same time and by remote." A comprehensive, turnkey, paper-free business management solution, QSi System enabled Goodyear to combine three management disciplines into a single process, dramatically reducing the administration time and ensuring best practices are applied to the entire management spectrum. Its newly created Business Process Management System (BPMS (Business Process Management Suite or System) See BPM. ) allows Goodyear to continually improve processes more efficiently at lower costs than ever before. For example, if a particular management procedure is revised, it can be changed simultaneously across all six manufacturing sites ensuring improvements are made in a timely fashion. According to Woodward, "Operating the same methods but within different languages can be shared across a consistent template. We can compare results of safety and environmental impact assessments across our plants and utilize best practice. We can ensure that instead of 18 procedures for document control we have one ensuring that our corporate and compliance regimes are consistently met." "IBS technology brings unmatched flexibility to management systems projects that organizations such as BVQi can develop for their customers," said IBS America, Inc. CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Matthias Grossman. "Global organizations such as Goodyear are realizing reduced timelines and costs of implementing a quality compliance management platform that supports a diverse collection of standards, languages and system requirements." About Goodyear Goodyear (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : GT) is the world's largest tire company. The company manufactures tires, engineered rubber products and chemicals in more than 85 facilities in 28 countries around the world. Goodyear employs about 88,000 people worldwide. For more information about Goodyear, visit the company's Web site at www.goodyear.com. About IBS America, Inc. Providing the broadest range of quality systems products, IBS helps thousands of businesses worldwide achieve their quality goals with its family of compliance management and quality control applications. Its QSi compliance management system lowers the cost of achieving quality while addressing the requirements of ISO 9001:2000, ISO 14000, ISO/TS 16949:2002, 21 CFR CFR See: Cost and Freight Part 11 and other leading standards. Enterprises depend on its QSYS quality control applications to provide a scalable, enterprise wide quality system for shop floor control, supply chain management, six sigma initiatives and productivity improvement. IBS software is deployed in more than 18 countries serving many of the world's leading businesses such as BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. , Johnson Controls, AGFA AGFA Aktiengesellschaft für Anilinfabrikation AGFA Actien-Gesellschaft für Anilin Fabrikationen (German-Belgian industrial enterprise) AGFA Asociación Guatemalteca para la Familia de las Americas , British Petroleum, Siemens, TYCO International and General Electric. For more information about IBS and its products, please visit IBS online at www.ibs-us.com. |
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