AICQ Seminar 15_05_2008

IRIS -
International Railway
Industry Standard
The global Quality Standard for the
Railway Industry

Florence – 15 May 2008

 IRIS History 1/2
 1999: During the UITP General Assembly in Hong Kong,
Operators have complained about poor product quality
and bad reliability of some Rolling Stock and requested
to improve the quality of the Supply Chain.
 2000: In Germany most of the railway equipment
manufacturers complained about the number of different
requirements and audits from system integrators and
operators and requested rationalization.
 2000 – 2004: two different Working Groups set by Alstom
and Siemens-Bombardier worked independently to find
solutions.
 April 2004: Alstom, Bombardier and Siemens started
cooperation.
 2004: birth of the RIC (Railway Industry Cooperation) with
the objective to develop a system to increase the quality
of processes and products in the railway supply chain.
As soon as a draft of the standard was developed the
name was changed into IRIS (International Railway
Industry Standard) in early 2005.
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 IRIS History 2/2
 May 2005: UNIFE General Assembly accepted the
integration of IRIS Group.
 July 2005: Constitution of IRIS Group with participation
of system integrators and equipment manufacturers.
 Sept-Oct. 2005: Validation phase of the IRIS System (pilot
audits).
 March 2006: The IRIS Management Centre was fully
staffed and the system was fine tuned according to the
feedbacks from the validation phase.
 May 2006: IRIS Rev00 was officially launched on the
UNIFE General Assembly in Geneva.
 November 2007: IRIS Rev01 was launched on the market
(incl. Signalling).

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 objective

IRIS aims to continue to develop and implement a

common global system for the evaluation of Business
Management Systems specific to the railway industry,
comprising:
 an international standard based on the principles of
ISO 9001 for the business management systems
requirements in the railway industry
 derived from the standard a questionnaire,
 an evaluation process with an assessment guideline to
be performed by approved certification bodies,
 a web-based IRIS Portal (database) and Audit-Tool
(Software).

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 Industry trends

globalisation concentration

innovation standardisation

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 The Organization
System Equipment
Integrators Manufacturers

UNIFE Presiding Board

Nomination
Agreement
Operators Nomination UNIFE
Agreement
Nomination
Agreement
IRIS Steering
Committee
Rules of Procedure

IRIS
Management
IRIS Advisory IRIS Technical Permanent Auditor Validation Centre (UNIFE)
Board (IAB) Forum For or ad hoc Committee (AVC)
Operators and
Improvement IRIS Working Framework
IRIS Approval, Validation Agreement
Groups & Follow up Approval & Contract
Steering
Committee
representatives
Auditors Auditor Certification Certification
tied up Pool Body 1 * Body x *
with CBs

Client 2 Client 3
Client 1 Request for Client n
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Certification
 What makes the difference to ISO?

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 What makes the difference to ISO?

1. An adequate level of formalization :

 14 procedures to be documented (ISO 9001: 6)

 19 processes required (ISO 9001: 3)

2. A pre-requisite before starting the audit :

 Readiness review
 12 KO questions
3. Specific rules controlling:

 Actors (CB – global presence, railway experience, targets to

meet, auditors – auditing and railway experience, training and
exams conduct by IMC, case study renewal... )
 Certification process (remote functions, auditor evaluation,
compensative and rewarding approach, software support...)
 Assessment guideline (readiness review, CARs and IARs,
questionnaire and maturity levels...)

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 IRIS Rev00 – Rev01 main differences

 Standard applicable to Rolling Stock AND Signalling

 Company activities in manufacturing AND/OR design
 Remote Functions rules improved
 IRIS auditor time chart improved
 Reduction scheme available for Companies upgrading from
other standards
 12 K.O. questions
 The Audit-tool Version 2 with new features, from now on it is the
only source for the IRIS questionnaire
 Audit-tool Version 2 for companies with reduced costs (250 EUR
per license) and special price to buy together the Audit-tool and
the booklet (300 EUR)
 Database extension: more documents can be uploaded and
managed by Certification Bodies and Members
 New IRIS Portal structure to facilitate and improve the usability

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 Corrective and improvement actions

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 Some current data about IRIS

 67 certificates issued,

 222 auditors trained and approved,

 Italian speaking: 58 !!

 scopes covered: ALL

 1231 booklets Rev 01 and 263 Audit-tool sold

by end of April,

 13 global Certification Bodies approved,

 250 companies active in the IRIS Portal,

4 languages
questionnaire
now!!!

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 It’s a global standard!
 4 official languages (EN, FR, GE, IT) :
 Additional translations will be performed under National
associations responsibility (signed for Russian and Spanish)
 A powerful Audit-tool :
 We push for internal assessment by the companies
 A dedicated website-database :
 Different access areas are existing (Public area, Members,
Certification Bodies, Auditors)
 Facilitating solutions: training schedule, advisories…

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 Where are we going?

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 Next steps

 Communication actions:
 IRIS Conference (Bruxelles, Belgium) - May 21st –
22nd, 2008
 InnoTrans (Berlin, Germany) - Sept. 23th- 26th, 2008
 Rail Tech Asia (New Dehli, India) - Dec. 3rd – 5th,
2008
 Maintenance as a scope of activity by mid of 2008

 Operators are working to improve the current Standard for

the benefit of all Railway stakeholders => rev 02 in 2009
 Spanish and Russian translation available soon.

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 Your contacts

UNIFE – IRIS Management Centre

Avenue Louise, 221 Bernard Kaufmann

1050 Bruxelles Giuseppe Greco
Belgium Nevena Petrova
Tel: +32 2 642 23 36
Fax: +32 2 626 12 61
email: iris@unife.org
Web: www.iris-rail.org

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 Thank you for your
attention

See you soon on the IRIS website

on the certified companies list….

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