[chopper]

IMHO, ISO 9000 is pretty worthless. The certification merely says that you follow your written company procedures accurately. It says nothing about the validity of the procedures or about whether the end product is any good; it just says that you have procedures in place to produce whatever product you turn out, and that you follow those procedures. The basic idea is to give your customers and subcontractors a warm fuzzy feeling that you actually are doing what you agreed to do in the contract without cutting corners.