Revised ISO 9000: Standards Shake-Up
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- Quality,
- Process Improvement,
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- ISO 9001:2000,
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Overview: International Organization for Standardization (ISO), Geneva, released final versions of the revised quality-management-system standards and guidelines (ISO 9000:2000, ISO 9001:2000, ISO 9004:2000). In their structure and organization the new documents bear little resemblance to the current standards. Specific requirements for 18 documented procedures have been reduced to six. The new standard is build on a theoretical foundation of eight principles and follows a process-based approach to quality management that is intended to align the standard more with the way a business is actually run -- planning, acting, analyzing results, and making improvements -- rather than offering a random list of procedures. All ISO standards are voluntary by definition. Companies that are forced to comply should take comfort in the fact that ISO 9001:2000 offers a better model than its predecessors for helping an organization focus on the needs of customers, and improve their operations.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
