What is the difference between ISO 9001, 9002 and 9003?

ISO 9001
ISO 9001: Quality Management Systems-Requirements.ISO 9001 is the number of the actual standard to which a company achieves certification. Both terms are often used synonymously to refer to the certification. The year of the current revision of the standard appears in the title, such as ISO 9001.Prior to the 2000 revision of the ISO standard. ISO 9001:1987 Model for quality assurance in design, development, production, installation, and servicing was for companies and organizations whose activities included the creation of new products. ISO 9001 sets out the requirements for an organization whose business processes range all the way from design and development, to production, installation and servicing.

ISO 9002
ISO 9002: There were also ISO 9002 for companies who didnt design any products. For an organization which does not carry out design and development, ISO 9002 is the appropriate standard, since it does not include the design control requirements of ISO 9001 otherwise, its requirements are identical. ISO 9002:1987 Model for quality assurance in production, installation, and servicing had basically the same material as ISO 9001 but without covering the creation of new products.

ISO 9003
ISO 9003:1987 Model for quality assurance in final inspection and test covered only the final inspection of finished product, with no concern for how the product was produced. ISO 9003 is the appropriate standard for an organization whose business processes does not include design control, process control, purchasing or servicing, and which basically uses inspection and testing to ensure that final products and services meet specified requirements.

2000 version of ISO standards

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ISO 9001:2000 combines the three standards 9001, 9002, and 9003 into one, called 9001. Design and development procedures are required only if a company does in fact engage in the creation of new products. The 2000 version sought to make a radical change in thinking by actually

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placing the concept of process management front and center ("Process management" was the monitoring and optimizing of a company's tasks and activities, instead of just inspecting the final product). The 2000 version also demands involvement by upper executives, in order to integrate quality into the business system and avoid delegation of quality functions to junior administrators. Another goal is to improve effectiveness via process performance metrics numerical measurement of the effectiveness of tasks and activities. Now, there is just the one standard, and if certain sections dont apply, organizations can take an exclusion for those sections.

What is the difference between ISO 9001:2008, 9001:2000, and 9001:2001and 9001:2002?
ISO 9001:2008
ISO 9001:2008 basically renarrates ISO 9001:2000. The 2008 version only introduced clarifications to the existing requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and some changes intended to improve consistency with ISO 14001:2004. There were no new requirements. For example, in ISO 9001:2008, a quality management system being upgraded just needs to be checked to see if it is following the clarifications introduced in the amended version.

ISO 9001:2000
ISO 9001:2000 combines the three standards 9001, 9002, and 9003 into one, called 9001. Design and development procedures are required only if a company does in fact engage in the creation of new products. The 2000 version sought to make a radical change in thinking by actually placing the concept of process management front and center ("Process management" was the monitoring and optimizing of a company's tasks and activities, instead of just inspecting the final product). The 2000 version also demands involvement by upper executives, in order to integrate quality into the business system and avoid delegation of quality functions to junior administrators. Another goal is to improve effectiveness via process performance metrics numerical measurement of the effectiveness of tasks and activities. Now, there is just the one standard, and if certain sections dont apply, organizations can take an exclusion for those sections.

Muhammad Ibaheem Tahir |

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2010-ME-215