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ISO 9001 review

By leansixsigma • on December 19, 2008

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ISO 9001 review is currently being undertaken by ISO/TC176, the umbrella ISO committee for quality management and assurance. The committee draft will be issued in anytime now with drafts for comment published in the second half of 2007 with publication of the revised standard planned for late 2008. The key messages coming out of the process to date are that:

  • the current scope and purpose of the standard, the title and the field of application shall remain unchanged from ISO 9001:2000
  • given that the current standard was a step change from its predecessor and caused considerable changes to businesses, changes will be limited in this review
  • it will remain generic so that it can be applied to all types and sizes of organisation. This one-size-fits-all approach will see the continued growth of sector-specific requirements and schemes
  • any changes introduced must provide clear benefits to users
  • the quality management principles (as contained in ISO 9000) shall be applied unchanged
  • the process model, as shown in ISO 9001:2000 figure 1 below, shall remain unchanged

I’m led to believe that some of the changes are:

  • clause 1.2 - clarify the intent of this clause in relation to when exclusions can be made in clause 7 specifically for service organisations
  • clause 5 - consider clarification of application of the process approach to top management
  • clause 5.4.2 - consider the clarification of quality management system planning in order to meet the quality objectives
  • clause 8.2.1 - clarify the requirement for client perception (monitoring versus measurement)
  • clause 8.3 - clarify this clause in relation to service organisations
  • clause 8.5 - clarify the differences in concepts between corrective action and preventive action

9001 certification

There has been global growth in certification of 18 per cent across 161 countries.

The top five countries for ISO 9001 certification are:

  1. China (143,823)
  2. Italy (98,028)
  3. Japan (53,771)
  4. Spain (47,445)
  5. UK (45,612)

with India seeing the largest growth of over 12,000 a year.

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