ISO 9000 Series  

What is the ISO 9000 Series?
The ISO 9000 series of documents was created by the International Organization for Standardization to set international requirements for quality management systems. Now adopted by over 80 countries, use of the series of standards has become commonplace in the business world.

The series itself is generic, and is designed to be applicable to any manufacturing or service process. The series is revised and controlled by Technical Committee (TC) 176, made up of international members from many industries and backgrounds. The series is modified periodically. The original standards were published in 1987, first revised in 1994 and the current versions were issued in 2000.

Many countries have published their own equivalents of the ISO 9000 series; the U.S. version is the ANSI-ASQC Q9000 series. The ISO 9000 series of documents were created by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), to set international requirements for quality management systems.

The previous ISO 9000 family of standards contained some 20 standards and documents.  The year 2000 ISO 9000 family of standards consists of four primary standards supported by a number of technical reports. The four primary standards are:

• ISO 9000: Quality Management Systems - Concepts and Vocabulary
• ISO 9001: Quality Management Systems - Requirements
• ISO 9004: Quality Management Systems - Guidelines
• ISO 10011: Guidelines for Auditing Quality Systems (watch for ISO 19011, which will merge 10011 and 14011 and, be published in the third quarter of 2001)

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