Ready, Set, Go! ISO 9000:2000 Races Toward Completion
- Topics:
- ISO Standards
- Tags:
- Business Operations,
- ISO 9000:2000,
- Iso standards,
- It Operations,
- Process Improvement,
- QCI International,
- Quality,
- Tqm/Six Sigma/ISO 9000
- Source:
- QCI International
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Overview: With the release of the draft international standard (DIS) edition of ISO 9000:2000, the revision process enters its last stage before the standard's final publication. Although still a draft and subject to change, a DIS is usually very similar to the final version of the standard. The committee reviews comments about the DIS edition and will ultimately elevate the standard to final draft international standard, which is normally not published for public distribution. The intention is primarily to allow exclusion of design control requirements where there are no design activities. In addition to this, ISO 9000:2000 introduces miscellaneous new requirements pertaining to quality planning, internal communication, management reviews training and awareness, work environment. Hence, the DIS is much cleaner and more elegant than CD2, but it also lost many teeth in the revision process. Many clauses are now so general that they may no longer be fully auditable, especially where documentation requirements have also been drastically cut back.
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Format: HTML | Date: Jan 2003 | Pages: 1
