Introduction
The ISO 9000 standard is one of the best known international standards; it is implemented by countless companies and other organizations in over 150 countries. ISO 9000 addresses "quality management". This means what the organization does to fulfill:
their customers' quality requirements, plus any applicable regulatory requirements, while aiming to enhance customer satisfaction, and achieve continual improvement of its performance.
What Is ISO 9000, ISO 9001, and ISO 9001:2000, ISO 9002 and ISO 9003?
These terms are all used to describe the ISO 9001 standard. Prior to December 2000, there used to be an ISO 9001, an ISO 9002 and an ISO 9003 standard; without focusing on the technical differences between them, people would just simply refer to each as ISO 9000. In December 2000, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) merged ISO 9001, ISO 9002, and ISO 9003 into a revised ISO 9001 standard. In order to distinguish between the previous ISO 9001 version, the current standard is often referred to as ISO 9001:2000 or ISO 9000:2000 (":2000" indicates the year of the revision).
For all practical purposes, ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 mean the same.
The Purpose Of Impliment ISO 9000 Standard
- make the development, manufacturing and supply of products and services more efficient, safer and cleaner
- facilitate trade between countries and make it fairer
- provide governments with a technical base for health, safety and environmental legislation, and conformity assessment
- share technological advances and good management practice
- disseminate innovation
- safeguard consumers, and users in general, of products and services
- make life simpler by providing solutions to common problems.
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