Department of Industrial Management of the University of Kelaniya takes pride in informing its stakeholders that the DIM’s continuous quality management system was evaluated and recognised with the ISO 9001: 2015 quality certification on 24^th March 2022 by the SLSI for the third consecutive time. The ISO 9001:2015 quality certification ensures institutes and entities are performing to the optimal standard for continued prosperity and improvement.

The Department of Industrial Management has been certified with ISO quality certification based on the following criteria: Design and development of programmes, teaching, learning and assessment, continuous professional development, research, publication related to the field.

The objective of the appraisal was to ensure the determination of the department in the following parameters:

• Determination of the extent of conformity of the management system to be audited, with audit criteria.
• Determination of the extent of conformity of activities, processes, and products with the requirements and procedures of the management system.
• Evaluation of the capability of the management system to ensure compliance with legal and contractual requirements and other requirements to which the organization is committed. 
• Evaluation of the effectiveness of the management system in meeting its specified objectives.
• Identification of areas for potential improvement of the management system.

Further, the audit team has highly commended the leadership provided by the Head of the Department, Senior Lecturer, Dr. Suren Peter and the support by the QMS Coordinator, Dr Chathumi Kavirathne and the previous Coordinator, Ms Mahikala Niranga. The audit team has also praised the entire academic and non-academic staff members of the DIM for their teamwork, support and professionalism shown during the process of auditing.