Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort,” says Antony Joseph, Managing Director, AQA Quality Management Systems(AQAQNS). A man of multiple facets, Antony has worked in various capacities right from shift engineer to senior manager during his professional stint. He has a robust industry experience of 27+ years working in major industries like Mavoor Rayons, O/E/N India ltd., Indchem Electronics (Chemplast Group), Megabyte Electronics, and Artech Power Products Ltd. amongst others. Taking the entrepreneurial plunge in 1999, alongside a few of the experienced professionals, he became the Managing Director of AVAC Power Technologies(P) Ltd, a manufacturing company for ‘Uninterrupted Power Supplies.’ That was just the start.

Later Saathvik Systems was born under his leadership, where he became the CEO of the company. As time progressed, in 2007 he setup AQA Quality Management Systems Pvt. Ltd., a pure quality consultation, and certification firm that focuses on upgrading SMEs & MSMEs to international standards. In retrospect, he has worked in different departments, as Head Research & Development, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing, and Materials Management, and also has travelled extensively to USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore for'Technology Transfer.'Recognizably, he is also an active member of many professional bodies like KMA, CSI, ISTD, IEI and many more.

Today, his brainchild AQAQMS standing abreast, receiving inspiration from the

success and overwhelming support and patronage enjoyed by Saathvik Systems in the fields of Consultancy Services. Carrying forward the same bequest, it is led and controlled by eminent professionals and management team, who have vast experience in public and private sectors/industries & Govt. departments in the field of industries such as tourism, engineering, human resources, marketing, hospital management, finance management, company accounts & audit,and QMS.

Leaving no stones unturned, at present, AQAQMS provides a gamut of consultancy services to its clients, which primarily focuses on ISO Certification to small, medium and large scale industries in private sector as well as Govt. sectors, hospitals, audit firms, and educations institutes amongst others. A few of the certifications include ISO 9001 (Quality Management System), ISO 14001 (Environmental Management System), ISO 45001 (Occupational Health & Safety Management), ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 combined (Integrated Management System), Food safety, HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point), ISO 22000 (Food Safety Management System), SA 8000(Social Accountability certification), ISO 27001 (Information Security Management System), ISO 50001(Energy Management System), NABL (National Accreditation Board for Laboratories) and many more.

In addition to this, AQAQMS provides services to its clients in Project Management, Corporate Training, and ZED Certification. “We carefully plan and organize to accomplish a specific(and usually) one time objective. Right from developing a project plan, which includes defining and confirming the project goals& objectives, to identifying tasks, and how goals need to be achieved, quantifying the resources needed, and determining budgets & timelines for completion. We handle end to end project management solutions to our clients, which even includes feasibility, definition, project planning, implementation, evaluation and support/ maintenance,” mentions Antony.

In the corporate training vertical, AQAQMS frequently conducts training programs for employees of various business organizations on technical subjects as well as on general topics such as Production Management, Materials Management, Marketing Management, Total Quality Management, & 5s, Business Process Re-engineering, Stress Management, Safety Management, Human Resources Development and more. Interestingly, the MD of the company is also a qualified assessor for getting ZED certification, which is the newly declared Zero Defect Zero Effect Certification scheme declared by the Government of India through QCI.

Scaling new heights, the Kochi based AQAQMS at the moment has reached a new stance in the industry, where it provides reliable and quality services to its clients across industries and geographies. In the coming days, the company is said to remain ubiquitous in ISO-QMS and other Certifications, thereby helping businesses thrive.