12.14.2009

ISO 9000 Implementation

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Businesses face lots of challenges in the international market. Implementing an ISO 9000 initiative is an action-oriented program that refers to obtaining ISO 9000 registration and working with its standards. The ISO certification process starts with pre-assessment audits and passes through on-going maintenance. The process of implementing ISO 9000 includes identifying, collecting and organizing the information required for certification.

ISO 9000 is a generic standard. It can be applied to any organization that intends to set up a quality management system, whether the organization is small or large, for-profit or governmental, whatever the service or product. The certification is now implemented by thousands of companies around the world. Many countries have taken it as their national standard.

Application of ISO standards generally refers to the process of implementing the collective intent of ISO 9000 family. The family includes four standards on quality management and quality assurance, namely, ISO 9000: 2000 (presenting fundamentals and vocabulary), ISO 9001: 2000 (presenting quality requirements), ISO 9004: 2000 (providing guidelines for performance improvement), and ISO 19011 (which is the auditing quality and environmental management systems).

Implementing quality management and quality assurance, as well as using the principles and guidelines contained in this family help the organization ensure complete customer satisfaction. ISO 9000 implementation also helps organizations design and manage their processes effectively to attain corporate aims, choose the right things to perform based on an objective analysis of the environment, and create an environment in which people will be motivated.

Many ISO services offer ISO implementation assistance for organizations. Their service includes professional implementation or upgrading of the appropriate standard in the organization through consulting (i.e., planning, procedures developing, system audits, etc), training, continuous improvement support, and risk analysis programs. The training programs instruct project managers how to implement ISO 9000 in their organization. ISO 9000 self implementation manual kits are also available in the market.

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History of ISO 9000

ISO 9000 grew out of BS 5750, a standard published by the British Standards Institution (BSI) in 1979. Initially, it was used only in manufacturing industries. ISO 9000 is now employed across a variety of other types of businesses. It is a set of international standards of quality management systems. ISO 9000 has been accepted by more than 100 countries as their national quality assurance standard by the end of 1997.

The history of ISO 9000 dates back to Mil-Q-9858a, the first quality standard for military procurement established in 1959 by the US. By 1962, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) developed its quality system requirements for suppliers. In 1965, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) accepted the AQAP (allied quality assurance procedures) specifications for the procurement of equipments.

During the 1970s, BSI published BS 9000 (the first UK standard for quality assurance) and BS 5179 (guidelines for quality assurance) norms. In 1979, it created BS 5750, a series of standards for use by manufacturing companies. They were enforced through assessments and audits. In 1988, ISO (International Standards Organization) adopted the BS 5750 standard without changes and published it globally under the name ISO 9000. The ISO adopted this standard with a view to create an international definition of the necessary characteristics of a quality system for all businesses, regardless of industry. In 1994, the ISO revised the ISO 9000 standard and published it globally.

In the beginning, ISO 9000 was implemented exclusively by large companies. But by mid-1990s, small and mid-sized companies began to increasingly implement these standards. In the United States, the total number of registrations increased from a little more than 2,200 in 1993 to more than 17,000 in 1998. Of these 17,000 registrations, almost 60 percent were held by businesses with annual sales of $100 million or less.

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10.28.2009

Summary of Changes - ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:2008

Summary of Changes - ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:2008

It is said that the changes in ISO 9001:2008 are primarily clarifications that are intended to provide clarity and thus improve understanding of the existing (ISO 9001:2000) requirements.

I also understand most of the changes are for ease of use and improved compatibility with ISO 14001:2004.

ISO-IAF Joint Plan According to a joint announcement by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and the IAF (International Accreditation Forum), the two organizations have agreed to an implementation plan for a smooth migration to ISO 9001:2008. 1) Certification of conformity to ISO 9001:2008 will only be issued after publication of ISO 9001:2008 (issued November 15, 2008) and after a routine surveillance audit or re-certification audit against ISO 9001:2008. 2) One year after publication of ISO 9001:2008, all certifications issued (new certifications and re-certifications) must be to ISO 9001:2008. 3) Two years after publication of ISO 9001:2008, existing ISO 9001:2000 certifications will not be valid.
This plan is possible, because ISO and IAF agreed that ISO 9001:2008 introduces no new requirements. The revised quality standard only introduces clarifications to the ISO 9001:2000 requirements, as well as, changes to improve consistency with ISO 14001:2004, the environmental standard.

ISO 9001:2008 Differences The differences in ISO 9001:2008 vs. ISO 9001:2000 are described below. Deleted ISO 9001:2000 text is indicated by strikethroughs. New ISO 9001:2008 text is highlighted and underlined. The underlining will allow readers to distinguish the new text, even if this paper is printed without color.
Most of the text in ISO 9001:2000 has not been affected by ISO 9001:2008. Text from the standard is shown in this paper as Italics to distinguish it from comments.

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