Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
Most frequent questions and answers
GAPS is called as Good Agricultural Practices and applied as voluntary certification for food and vegetable to ensure that the risk of microbiological food hazard will be reduced.
HACCP is called as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points is international standards that generally applied to the processed food to reduce the food safety risks. It includes biological, chemical and physical hazard. Any company involved in manufacturing, processing, or handling of food product can be used this HACCP standard.
ISO is the abbreviation of International Organization of Standardization that is the International non-profit organization established to formulated or develop international standards to reduce technical trade barrier and facilitate trade. ISO head office located in Switzerland and 152- countries are the member of ISO. Pakistan is also the member of ISO, PSQCA is the organization representing Pakistan in ISO.
ISO- International Organization for Standardization has the mandate or scope to establish and develop International standards with the consensus with member countries.
A company certified on ISO standards means that it is quality conscious company with customer focus and building a image to have international certification on ISO.
- Meet or increase customer satisfaction
- Attract new customer
- Generate more profits
- Improve product quality
- Improve company image
- Develop quality culture
- International recognition
- Reduce waste
- Improve productivity
- Lean manufacturing
- Reduce cost of doing business
ISO-ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO-22000, ISO-27001, and ISO-17025 certification improve business through reduction in cost, stream line business process, by following process approach, ensuring quality assurance and quality control techniques, reducing market competition and improve customer satisfaction
The cost of ISO certification in Pakistan is depend on the Size of the company, Complexity of operation, number of the audit sites, brand of certification body, number of employees of company, standard of certification.
Six Sigma is a method that provides organizations tools to improve the capability of their business processes. This increase in performance and decrease in process variation helps lead to defect reduction and improvement in profits, employee morale, and quality of products or services.
The stages of six sigma is called DMAIC, DMAIC means, define the problem, measure the problems, analyze the problem, improve the process, control the process
The stages of six sigma is called DMAIC, DMAIC means, define the problem, measure the problems, analyze the problem, improve the process, control the process
The principle of six sigma is called DMAIC, DMAIC means, define the problem, measure the problems, analyze the problem, improve the process, and control the process.
There are five belts in six sigma, starting from basic belt is white belt six sigma, yellow belt six sigma, green belt six sigma, black belt six sigma and master black belt six sigma.