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Some info on ETP Funding

The California State Employment Training Panel is an organization designed to help California companies become more competitive.  They have funds available to qualified organizations to financially assist in the training of employees.  If you pay taxes and you train your employees, you are probably eligible.   ISOmatrix has developed a simplified approach to help our clients through the ETP process and we do it for free to help earn your business.  We do a good deal of training of management and staff when we develop and implement a Quality Management or Environmental Management system.  Much or all of it is eligible for these ETP training dollars.  Talk to us about it.  Many of our clients are glad they did.

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A few of our recent Client ISO Certifications  --  Congratulations!!

• Rantec Microwave Systems: AS9100 Rev B- ISOmatrix wants to congratulate Graham Wilson and his team at Rantec Microwave Systems (www.rantecmdm.com) on their recent completion of AS9100 registration by registrar, BSI.  Rantec has been develping and manufacturing military and commercial microwave antenna systems for more than 45 years.  A special thanks for choosing ISOmatrix Inc to develop and support its AS9100 Quality Systems development and implementation. 
• MPS Industries : ISO 9001:2000 - MPS (www.mpsind.com) is a leading manufacturer and distributor of electronic components for consumers, computers, communications, and critical medical applications.  With the help of ISOmatrix, MPS was a slam dunk completing development, implementation and registration in just over 90 days.  We are proud to be a part of it.
• Momentum Group:  ISO 14001:2004 - Momentum (www.themomgroup.com) is committed to environmental Stewardship.  for a solid ISO 14001:2004 implementation to self certification.  A great EMS implementation focused on continual improvement.  Thanks for working with us.

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Environmental Management Systems - ISO14001

Lots of companies say they are “Going Green” or that they have "Green" products.  Unfortunately, it’s a pretty ambiguous term with all the vagueries of a hollow marketing ploy.  That is because most organizations do not have a program in place to actually measure how they have improved their environmental footprint and how they can continue to monitor and make appropriate managmement decisions. 

ISO 14001 is the internationally accepted standard designed specifically to help management visualize, prioritize, and measure their organization’s inputs and outputs.  Is it simple?    Well, ..it is for us.  We have set up multiple ISO 14001 systems for organizations large and small and we have built a path to streamline it for your company.

Learn more about "Environmental Management"

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Quality System Tuneup Time?

If you are heading into a surveilance or re-cert audit any time soon, you should give us a call.   Our Tuneup package is a great way to solidify your existing system, look for improvement areas, plug up outstanding issues, remove any quality system "unknowns", and relieve the stress on your management team.  The stress relief alone is worth the call.  Give us a ring. 

There is a great article in Quality Digest on this very topic.  Go to our home page (www.isomatrix.com)and scroll down to Industry News/Articles.  

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All the best!

Bill Barber - President, ISOmatrix Inc