<h1>What Is ISO 9001: 2008 Standard?</h1>

The recent edition of the ISO 9001 standard ISO 9001: 2008, Quality Management Systems Requirements, was officially published by (ISO) the International Organization for Standardization on November 14, 2008. It is the fourth edition of the ISO 9001 standard as it was first published in 1987.

ISO 9001:2008 is a standard that offers a generic set of requirements for organizations wishing to develop a quality management system (QMS). The ISO 9001:2008 standard focuses on developing organizations business processes. It does not indicate any requirements for product or service quality.  Customers typically set product and service quality requirements. However, the anticipation is that an organization with an effective ISO 9001 based QMS will indeed get better its ability to meet customer, legal and regulatory requirements.

This is the merely QMS standard to which an organization may perhaps obtain formal third party certification. Because requirements are generic and not specific, organizations have flexibility in tailoring their QMS to fit their business, ethnicity and hazards.

ISO 9001 requirements set off contractual and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. Those implementing a QMS conforming to ISO 9001 must ensure that the explicit requirements of their customers and relevant statutory and regulatory agencies are met.

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Concepts of Quality Management System

ü  A Quality Management System in its fundamental concept is fairly simple. It seeks to: Recognize the external quality related requirements specified in Licenses to Trade, principles, particular customer requirements, and the preferred management system standard(s)

ü  Ensure that all rations have been documented within the management system in the appropriate location in requisites of defined explicit system requirements

ü  Confirm that employees receive appropriate training in the quality system requirements

ü  Outline performance processes, wherever applicable, to the quality system requirements

ü  Produce records or substantiation that system requirements have been met

ü  Measure, observe and report the level of observance with these performance procedures

ü  Continually monitor and analyze changes to the requirements and confirm that all changes are reflected in changes to the specific requirements when necessary

ü  Implement the audit and evaluate the system processes and correct them when required

ü  Comprise processes that will assist persistently improve the quality system.

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