Design of Methodological Platform to Support the Integration of Standardized Quality Management Systems Applicable in the Mining Industry

professional field, methodological recommendations guiding
modification processes related to the integration or conversion of
standardized quality management systems are absent in both
scientific and professional circles. The presented paper reflects on
these facts and offers an instance of the development and application
of a new methodology that would help in decision-making processes
in companies. Although the authors' methodology is presented in the
context of educational institutions, given the aim of ISO 9001 and the
need for changes in the sectors related to ensuring increasingly highquality processes in companies, this methodology can also be applied
in the mining industry, the manufacturing sector and service sector.
The Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education (SAAHE)
issued new quality standards for Slovak universities in 2020 (SAAS
2020). The previous accreditation rules determined requirements and
criteria for quality management system (QMS) implementation,
maintenance and improvement. Therefore, some Slovak universities
implemented ISO 9001 in the past. It is necessary to convert their
QMS from ISO 9001 to SAAS 2020. The main objectives of this
paper are: to identify selected common requirements of both
standards, to define three basic dimensions of QMS conversion, to
use vector analysis for quantifying conversion relevance (CR) and
conversion strength (CS) and to recommend which requirement
should be preserved or converted. Conversion is vector AB, where
initial position A = (Ax, Ay, Az) represents ISO 9001 and the new
position B = (Bx, By, Bz) represents SAAS 2020.