ISO 9001:2008 changes

Some new points in ISO 9001:2008

On 14th January 2008, International Standard Organization officially published ISO 9001:2008 standards, which is the latest version of Quality Management System applied in 175 countries all over the World.

ISO 9001:2008 remains the same in structure with little change in accordance with ISO 9001:2000. It includes the following sections:
Standard structure

1. Scope
2. Normative Reference
3. Terms and Definitions
4. Quality management system
5. Management responsibility
6. Resource management
7. Product realization
8. Measurement, analysis and improvement

However, in content, there are some new points as below:

1. Identify in the quality system approach and method of controlling external processes;

2. Clearer details on the control of external processes;

3. Change in document structure in quality management; the importance of files increases in equal to procedures;

4. Emphasis on analysis and improvement of processes;

5. Clearer representation of procedures; one procedure may involve many processes or many procedures represent a process;


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