assignment

International Organization for Standardization

Students will visit the ISO website (https://www.iso.org/about-us.html) and be familiar with the ISO governance structure, vision, and purpose. The purpose of this assignment is for student to review ISO popular standards and select one standard with a case study to do a research. 

The final product will be about two pages writing (single space, Time NW 12) and 3 PPT slides covering the following items:

· A selected ISO standard with a brief summary of major points (standard’s name, description, purposes, requirement, and benefit), 100-200 words length.

· A case study under your selected ISO standard, a summary of major points should contain, but not limit to: company name, business background, type of ISO certification and benefits, problems (if any) and business improvement and performance, tools and techniques used in the implementation (e.g. LSS, quality, SWOT, problem solving tools,…).

· Any pictures, graphs, and diagrams related to the case study.

· References

Suggested websites:

1. Learn about ISO standards, go to https://www.iso.org/popular-standards.html, then select one standard that you are interested to study (e.g. ISO 9001, 22000, 14001, 13485, 2600, 8601, 31000, 50001, 17025, 27001,…). A standard manual is located on the right column, “Preview our standards”

2. Case study, there are several website on ISO case study. A simple one with Google Search, keyword “ISO and case study”, some other sources:

1. www.asq.org,
2. https://www.bsigroup.com/en-GB/standards/,       select the standard and use keyword ‘case study’