What Is ISO & ISO 9001
What is ISO?
The Organisation Known is ISO began informally in 1946 when delegates from 25 countries mate in London after the war and decided to create a new international organisation for the purpose of having an international body to facilitate the international coordination and unification of industrial standards. in February 1947 the organisation known as ISO officially began operations. Because a name like international organisation for standardization would have different acronyms in different languages like IOS in English, ONI in French, and MOS in Russian. it was decided to give it the short form ISO from the Greek word ISOS meaning equal as in isometric, isosceles, So no matter what the language the official acronym is always ISO.
Since its beginnings in 1947 ISO has published over 19500 International standards covering almost every aspects of Technology and manufacturing and services. to take care of standard development ISO has members from 165 countries and 3368 Technical body’s as of today. more than 150 people work full time for ISO’s Central Secretariat in Geneva Switzerland.
What is ISO 9001
well to understand what is ISO 9001 it is necessary to first understand what is a Quality Management System(QMS). Quality Management System is a set of documented policies, procedures and responsibilities organised into a structured system of processes to assist an organisation in realising its quality vision, goals, and objectives.
ISO established a standard 9001 for quality management systems. it comprises stage of generic standard requirements governing the quality management systems of certified companies or other organisations. specially accredited auditors known as certification body CB Auditors are authorised to award a certificate of compliance to the ISO 9001 2015 standard which is the current in 2018.
This certification must be reviewed annually and renewed every 3 years. Although it is called standard, one of the foundation of requirements of this standard is that its implementation shall be based on a system is dynamic processes rather than a set of static standards.
- In summary the ISO 9001 standard requires procedures for the following activities to be documented and evidence maintained that they are being followed.
- Control documents and records for example the gathering of customer requirements and the recording of product testing
- Control of nonconforming product for example to prevent defects and rejects for being send to customers
- Continual improvement through corrective and preventive action necessary when mistakes has been made to prevent them from happening again.
- Internal audits to show that the organisation take seriously its commitment to quality and conformance to the ISO 9001 standard
- Maintaining well implemented compliance with ISO 9001 standards helps an organisation focus on meeting customer requirements and exceeding customer Expectations with processes that are even more effective and efficient.