Difference between ISO 9000:1994 & ISO 9000:2000

[amanbhai]

What is most visible difference between ISO 9000: 1994 & ISO 9000:2000.
Just curious about it, positively.

 

[Antonio Vieira]

Amanbhai,

If you're talking about ISO 9001, and I assume it is, there are several places here in the forum where you can have the right answer to that, but in my opinion it’s for sure the necessity of organizations treat their QMS as a system of interrelated processes – the famous process approach.

Regards
AV

 

[Randy]

I'll bet you're thinking about 9001....

The '94 version is obsolete and no longer used for registration and implementation. The basic focus was on having documented procedures for everything (the 20 clauses) and not being concerned with improvement and achieving customer satisfaction (meeting expectations).

The 2000 version (going through review and revision as we speak) was built along the process model used in ISO 14001 and developed/theorized in the mid 20th Century by people like Shewart and Deming. The focus is on achieving customer satisfaction/expectations and continual improvement across the full spectrum of the orgaization that can have effect on doing that.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Do I know you? If I do I'm sorry, I don't recognize the screen name.

 

[Marc]

What is most visible difference between ISO 9000: 1994 & ISO 9000:2000.

***NOTE*** --> If you are referring to 9001 as Randy is thinking, this has been asked many times. A quick search here in the forums will give you a list such as in these discussion threads: Summary of Differences and Changes - ISO 9001:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 and ISO 9001:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 Differences.

These threads discuss the differences, transition issues and other version differences aspects: ISO 9001:1994 and ISO 9001:2000 Differences and Transition discussions.

If you are referring to ISO9000 rather than ISO9001, please let us know and we can start from there.

Hope this helps.