 About the Program
The Maryland ISO Consortium program was established in 1994 to help Maryland companies improve their internal operations; establish, maintain, and/or expand their supplier status with U.S. companies and federal agencies; and to improve their competitiveness in domestic and international markets.
Since its inception, the Maryland Consortium program has helped over 300 organizations to reach a point of readiness for ISO certificatioin of their individual quality management systems. Manufacturers, technology and service companies and non-profit organizations have participated. Registration is pursued through an independent audit process conducted by an accredited, third party ISO registrar. Organizations completing the Maryland Consortium Program represent approximately 30 percent of the establishments in Maryland that have received ISO certification.
The Consortium is a partnership of the University of Maryland and the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development.
Read about their reported benefits:
Creating Sustainable Improvement is the Bottom Line
The quality of your organization's products and services is determined to a large extent by the quality of the processes that produces those products and services.
You are losing competitive advantage if you are not proactively engaged in improving the effectiveness of your quality management system and its processes.
Process improvement programs may not produce sustainable growth and improvement unless a formal, documented, process-based quality management system is already in place.
ISO 9001 is the most widely recognized and proven methodology for providing that process-based management system.
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