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I am curious about the Leggett and Platt internal standard, LP9000 which they started using to eliminate part of the registrar game. Does anybody have a copy or can direct me to more resources? There is very little on the internet.
I saw this in the late 1990's with a few companies such as Otis Elevator. I don't doubt things have changed, but they had their own Customer Specific Requirement which was essentially ISO 9001 rephrased. They used it for supplier qualification.I was hoping to find some background about why L & P developed their own standard and what differences there are between LP9000 and ISO 9001. I found some brief information that they were not satisfied with the value received from registrars and rather than waste money on ISO registration they pulled it all together internally. In my experience, surveillance audits are just an income producer for the registrars and a waste of time and energy for the company. Who came up with the need to audit annually anyway? The spirit of ISO 9001 is much more powerful than any certificate.