1. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 IRIS - International Railway Industry Standard The global Quality Standard for the Railway Industry Naples – 23 October 2008

2. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 2 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. 2005: As soon as a draft of the standard was developed the name was changed into IRIS ( I nternational R ailway I ndustry S tandard).

3. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 3 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). June 2008: Addendum, 19th June 2008 was launched (incl. Maintenance)

4. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 4 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).

5. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 5 Industry trends globalisationconcentration innovation standardisation

6. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 6 The Organization IRIS Technical Forum For Improvement UNIFE Presiding Board IRIS Steering Committee Rules of Procedure UNIFE Nomination Agreement Operators IRIS Management Centre (UNIFE) Certification Body 1 * Certification Body x * Client n Request for Certification Client 3Client 2 Client 1 Framework Agreement Approval & Contract Auditor Validation Committee (AVC) Approval, Validation & Follow up Auditor Pool Auditors tied up with CBs Permanent or ad hoc IRIS Working Groups System Integrators Equipment Manufacturers IRIS Advisory Board (IAB) Operators and IRIS Steering Committee representatives

7. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 7 What makes the difference to ISO?

8. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 8 What makes the difference to ISO? 1. An adequate level of formalization : 15 procedures to be documented (ISO 9001: 6) 21 processes required (ISO 9001: 3) 2. Pre-requisites before starting the audit : Readiness review (mandatory now) 12 KO questions 3. Scoring metholodogy : Questionnaire (open questions, closed question, KO…) Improvement actions to increase score year by year

9. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 9 What makes the difference to ISO? 4. Specific rules controlling: Certification Bodies: global presence, railway experience, targets to meet,... Auditors: auditing and railway experience, training and exams conduct by IMC, yearly case study renewal, scope assignment... Certification process: remote functions, auditor performance evaluation, compensative and rewarding approach, software support...

10. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 10 It’s a global standard! 4 official languages (EN, FR, GE, IT) : Additional translations will be performed under National associations responsibility (Russian, Spanish, Czech, Ukrainian,…)  Chinese? A powerful Audit-tool : We push for internal assessment by the companies A dedicated website-database : Information is managed with different levels of restrictions:  Public data: list of certified members, validity of certificate, scopes, general information about IRIS, FAQs, links, News, CB contacts...  Non-detailed data: News for CBs and auditors, scope of the certificate.  Detailed data: Audit reports, score, corrective&improvement action excel file, certificate, other documents from CB and from Company. Available only with the consensus from the Company

11. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 11 Some current data about IRIS IRIS Addendum 19th June 2008 applicable 100 certificates issued, 233 auditors trained and approved, 53 Italian speaking one, All scopes covered 1773 booklets Rev 01 and 420 Audit-tool sold by end of September, 13 global Certification Bodies approved, 374 companies active in the IRIS Portal. 4 languages questionnaire now!!!

12. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 12 Evolution of IRIS certificates by country Status: 2008-10-01

13. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 13 Auditor languages and scopes

14. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 14 Where are we going?

15. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 15 IRIS Group strategy Signalling Supply chain Rolling Stock Operators IRIS scope Equipment Manufacturers System Integrators 2006 2007 2009 2008 Maintenance

16. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 16 Next steps Communication actions: InnoTrans (Berlin, Germany) - Sept. 23th- 26th, 2008 Rail Tech Asia (New Dehli, India) – 13-15 May 2009 2nd IRIS Conference (Brussels, Belgium) in Autumn 2009 Integration of ISO 9001:2008 changes (in progress) IRIS Training and presentation in USA, Middle East, China… Operators are working to improve the current Standard for the benefit of all Railway stakeholders  rev 02 in mid 2009

17. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 17 Your contacts Avenue Louise, 221 1050 Bruxelles Belgium Bernard Kaufmann Giuseppe Greco Nevena Petrova Tel:+32 2 642 23 36 Fax:+32 2 626 12 61 email: iris@unife.orgiris@unife.org Web: www.iris-rail.org UNIFE – IRIS Management Centre

18. CIFI Seminar 23_10_2008 18 Thank you for your attention See you soon on the IRIS Portal

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