About Quality BMS
One Company. Tailored Solutions.
Quality BMS is a consulting, training, and auditing practice focused on building management systems that are not only compliant, but operationally effective. With expertise across ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949, and AS9100, Quality BMS helps manufacturers and service organizations move beyond documented systems to systems that actually function.
Whether your organization needs implementation support, independent auditing, customized training, or help recovering from a failed audit, Quality BMS delivers solutions built around your business, not a standard package.
The goal is always the same: reduce variability, improve predictability, and lower operational stress through better system design and alignment.
About Ken Place
Ken Place is the founder of Quality BMS and a quality and operational risk professional with more than 30 years of experience designing, auditing, and improving management systems across manufacturing and service organizations.
Ken's approach is grounded in real-world system behavior. He focuses on how processes, ownership, and metrics interact to either create flow or introduce friction into daily operations. Organizations that work with Ken don't just get a compliant system; they get a system their teams can own, maintain, and improve.
Ken is an active third-party Lead Auditor with PRI Registrar, conducting ISO 9001, and ISO 14001 certifications, surveillance, and recertification audits across diverse industries. He evaluates system effectiveness beyond compliance, surfacing systemic patterns rather than isolated events, and develops clear, defensible audit findings that help organizations act on root causes.
He is also a trusted trainer and facilitator in root cause analysis, problem solving, and process auditing, recognized as an ASQConnEx Qualified Instructor by the American Society for Quality.
Through his work with Crisis24, Ken supports manufacturing organizations in both preventing and recovering from operational disruptions, identifying gaps in process ownership, risk controls, and system alignment before problems occur, and leading structured root cause analysis and system recovery when they do.
Quality BMS is also a partner within the CAQ AG Quality Excellence Network, supporting organizations that utilize integrated quality management and operational risk systems across manufacturing environments.
Ken has worked with facilities throughout the US, Canada, Europe, Mexico, and China, and is available for audits and training in both English and Spanish.
Credentials & Education
American Society for Quality (ASQ) Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), Certified Quality Auditor (CQA), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB), Certified Supplier Quality Professional (CSQP)
Exemplar Global / IATF Certified Lead Auditor: ISO 9001, ISO 14001, IATF 16949
ASQConnEx Qualified & Vetted Instructor, American Society for Quality
Education MBA, Aurora University; B.A. in Economics, Blackburn College