Free Brochure: What Is ISO 9000 And Should I Care?
Free Brochure: What Is ISO 9000 And Should I Care?
Abstract: A certified quality management system promotes, facilitates and enables consistency and improvements in a process or product.
Description: ISO 9000 consists of a series of Quality Management System standards that are designed to facilitate and enable consistency of a product or service and thereby ensure that customer requirements are met or exceeded. They can be applied in any manufacturing industry or service sector.
The value of certification to customers is evident, but the quality of the certificate is also important. All certificates are not equal.
As more and more companies become certified, buyers are looking at the reputation of the registrar. DNV’s approach is one of a partnership. Their goal is to provide organizations with value-added services that result in a certification which is recognized and accepted by its customers and prospects.
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ISO 9000 is a family of standards for quality management systems. ISO 9000 is maintained by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies. The rules are updated, as the requirements motivate changes over time. Some of the requirements in ISO 9001:2008 (which is one of the standards in the ISO 9000 family) include
- a set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business;
- monitoring processes to ensure they are effective;
- keeping adequate records;
- checking output for defects, with appropriate and corrective action where necessary;
- regularly reviewing individual processes and the quality system itself for effectiveness; and
- facilitating continual improvement
A company or organization that has been independently audited and certified to be in conformance with ISO 9001 may publicly state that it is “ISO 9001 certified” or “ISO 9001 registered”. Certification to an ISO 9001 standard does not guarantee any quality of end products and services; rather, it certifies that formalized business processes are being applied.
Marketing departments take advantage of public confusion and ignorance about ISO 9000. Goods and services outstanding proclaim their ISO 9000 STATUS. Most consumers suppose that ISO 9000 is the same as ISO 9001.
Although the standards originated in manufacturing, they are now employed across several types of organizations. A “product”, in ISO vocabulary, can mean a physical object, services, or software.
Quality is a “culture” – ISO 9001 “Quality” is an important Accreditation to achieve, it is also essential for maximum benefit that information is shared so that the culture of the business ensures that the Quality culture is embedded
ISO 9000. (2010, March 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 02:43, March 13, 2010, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ISO_9000&oldid=348690892
