Nigel Howard Croft the Voest-Alpine Group of companies. Nigel’s interest in Quality Management began during this time, when he coordinated the adaptation of Eletrometal’s quality management system to meet the requirements of the ISO 9002 standard (now superseded), in 1992. Nigel Croft currently sits on the Board of a number of organizations around the world, and in 2011 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Business School of UUM (University of Northern Malaysia) As a member of the Brazilian delegation to ISO/TC176, the ISO Technical Committee responsible for Quality Management and the ISO 9000 family of standards, Nigel Croft was responsible for coordinating
State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management State Committee for Standards and Product Quality Management Gosstandart () was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management. The name is an abbreviation for "Gosudarstvennyy standart" (‘State Standard’). Established in 1925 as a committee for standardization within the USSR Council of Labor and Defence, "Gosstandart" was at first put in charge of inspecting measuring instruments used in industrial and agricultural production and later was tasked with developing, updating, and disseminating GOST standards. Over the course of its existence, the agency was reformed a number of times, receiving a new name with each transformation: the "National Committee