DQS Holding GmbH based in
Frankfurt am Main
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is the
holding company
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of the worldwide DQS Group. The group provides assessments and
certifications of
management systems
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and processes of any type.
History
DQS was founded in 1985 in Berlin and was the first German certification body.
[Wolfgang Hansen: ''Zertifizierung und Akkreditierung von Produkten und Leistungen der Wirtschaft'', Carl Hanser Verlag München Wien, 1993, p. 155, .][Walter Masing: ''Handbuch der Qualitätssicherung'', Carl Hanser Verlag, 2nd ed., 1988, p. 972, .] The aim of the founding partners,
DGQ (
German Society for Quality) and
DIN (German Institute for Standardization), was mainly to promote the German economy. The foundation overlapped with the publication of the first drafts of the
ISO 9000
The ISO 9000 family is a set of five quality management systems (QMS) standards that help organizations ensure they meet customer and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service. ISO 90 ...
series of standards, which also include the most important quality standard worldwide today:
ISO 9001
The ISO 9000 family is a set of five quality management systems (QMS) standards that help organizations ensure they meet customer and other stakeholder needs within statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product or service. ISO 90 ...
.
In 1986 DQS became the first certification body in Germany to issue a certificate according to ISO 9001.
[Fiorenzo Franceschini, Maurizio Galetto, and Giovanni Gianni: ''A new forecasting model for the diffusion of ISO 9000 standard certifications in European countries'', International Journal of Quality & Riliability Management, ''21'' (2004) p. 32–50.]
After the merger of DQS with the Management Systems Solutions (MSS) division of the American product certification body
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. in March 2008, DQS-UL Group is currently one of the world's largest system certification bodies. Since June 2015 the company changed its name to DQS Group.
Corporate Organization
DQS Holding GmbH has more than 85 offices in over 60
countries
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. DQS Group currently has about 20,000 certified customers across almost all industries with approximately 65,000 certified locations in over 130 countries.
The concern employs 814 people and commands 2,500
auditors
An audit is an "independent examination of financial information of any entity, whether profit oriented or not, irrespective of its size or legal form when such an examination is conducted with a view to express an opinion thereon.” Auditing ...
in 2019 (annual average). Among the largest companies within the group are DQS India.(Bangalore), DQS Inc. (USA), DQS do Brasil Ltd., DQS Japan Inc., DQS Medizinprodukte GmbH (Medical Devices), DQS CFS (sustainability) and DQS GmbH (all Germany).
DQS India
Headquartered in
Bangalore
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Main and with a local offices in
Chennai
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,
Pune
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,
Gujarat
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, DQS India is the largest subsidiary of DQS Holding GmbH. In 2018 DQS India launched DQS NXT https://dqs-nxt.com which is designed or built to make the Audit process automation to cope up with industry 4.O requirements. DQS intends to keep adding products under this 4.0, we start with Audit Organiser 4.0 and Supplier Audit Management 4.0.
1.Audit Organiser 4.0 - Manage a wide range of audit-related activities, data and processes in a single, comprehensive framework. It provides the flexibility to support all types of audits – internal and external including management system, process, product and customer specific audits respectively.
2.Supplier Audit Management 4.0 - A comprehensive web application that helps organisations to manage the whole array of activities, processes and data related to supplier audits. It aids the management to decide appropriate interventions to optimize the effort and develop suppliers in line with their strategic intent
DQS GmbH in Germany
Headquartered in Frankfurt am Main and with a local offices in
Hamburg
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, DQS GmbH is the largest subsidiary of DQS Holding GmbH.
Service spectrum
The group’s services include cross-industry assessments to customer or industry-specific requirements and certifications to national and international standards and specifications.
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ISO 9001
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Quality
Quality may refer to:
Concepts
*Quality (business), the ''non-inferiority'' or ''superiority'' of something
*Quality (philosophy), an attribute or a property
*Quality (physics), in response theory
*Energy quality, used in various science discipli ...
)
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ISO 14001 (
Environment
Environment most often refers to:
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* Natural environment, all living and non-living things occurring naturally
* Biophysical environment, the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism or ...
)
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ISO 45001
ISO 45001 is an ISO standard for management systems of occupational health and safety (OHS), published in March 2018. The goal of ISO 45001 is the reduction of occupational injuries and diseases, including promoting and protecting physical and ...
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Workplace safety)
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IATF 16949
IATF 16949:2016 is a technical specification aimed at the development of a quality management system which provides for continual improvement, emphasizing defect prevention and the reduction of variation and waste in the automotive industry supply ...
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Automotive)
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ISO 22301
ISO 22301:2019, ''Security and resilience – Business continuity management systems – Requirements'', is a management system standard published by International Organization for Standardization that specifies requirements to plan, establish, im ...
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Business Continuity
Business continuity may be defined as "the capability of an organization to continue the delivery of products or services at pre-defined acceptable levels following a disruptive incident", and business continuity planning (or business continuity a ...
)
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ISO 27001
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ISO or Iso may also refer to: Business and finance
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Information security
Information security, sometimes shortened to InfoSec, is the practice of protecting information by mitigating information risks. It is part of information risk management. It typically involves preventing or reducing the probability of unauthorize ...
)
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ISO 28000
ISO 28000:2022, ''Security and resilience – Security management systems – Requirements'', is a management system standard published by International Organization for Standardization that specifies requirements for a security management system ...
(Security Management System for the Supply Chain)
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ISO 37001
ISO 37001 ''Anti-bribery management systems - Requirements'' with guidance for use, is a management system standard published by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) in 2016. As the title suggests, this standard sets out the ...
(Anti-Bribery Management Systems)
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ISO 50001
ISO 50001 Energy management systems - Requirements with guidance for use, is an international standard created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). It supports organizations in all sectors to use energy more efficiently th ...
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Energy management
Energy management includes planning and operation of energy production and energy consumption units as well as energy distribution and storage. Objectives are resource conservation, climate protection and cost savings, while the users have per ...
)
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ISO 13485
ISO 13485 ''Medical devices -- Quality management systems -- Requirements for regulatory purposes'' is a voluntary standard, published by International Organization for Standardization (ISO) for the first time in 1996, and contains a comprehensive ...
(Medical Device certification)
* ISO/TS 22163:2017/IRIS (Rail sector)
* EN 9100:2018 series (Aerospace)
* International Featured Standard (IFS)
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GRI
In addition, the group also offers assessments in the areas of Risk Management Systems,
Sustainability
Specific definitions of sustainability are difficult to agree on and have varied in the literature and over time. The concept of sustainability can be used to guide decisions at the global, national, and individual levels (e.g. sustainable livi ...
,
Education
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...
, Data Privacy, Business Excellence, Health and
Social Services
Social services are a range of public services intended to provide support and assistance towards particular groups, which commonly include the disadvantaged. They may be provided by individuals, private and independent organisations, or administe ...
, and Integrated Management Systems.
Network
DQS is a charter and full member of the international certification network IQNet Association which was founded in 1990. The main objective of the currently approx. 40-member global network is the mutual recognition of certificates issued by the member companies. Dr Sied Sadek, Managing Director of DQS CFS and DQS Middle East, pointed out in an interview to share DQS's expertise in the field of CSR reporting and DQS's understanding of the necessity to do so sensitive to the regional and cultural context, in the development process of the
Islamic Reporting Initiative (IRI).
References
External links
2008 Merger between DQS and the Management Systems Solutions Division of Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Website of DQS. Website of DQS HK. Website of DQS HK in Chinese.
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