Here's another article (from
Quality Digest) on the coming ISO9001:2015. It doesn't offer much new compared to other posts and links in this thread, but I think it's a good read!
I wish people would be more critical of articles they read. Excerpts of the linked article:
Although the revised standard will not change the current requirements, it will standardize the language as well as the approaches to management.
What? :mg: ISO 9001:2015 will NOT change the requirements from ISO 9001:2008? What about dropping requirements for a management representative and a quality manual? What about the introduction of risk based thinking? What about the deletion of preventive actions? How can we say with a straight face that the revised document will not change the requirements?
The revision has several goals:
? Provide a stable framework of requirements for the next 10 years. Based on the introduction of eight major quality management principles:
1. Improved consistency with traceability
2. Enhanced customer focus
3. Focused leadership
4. The involvement of people
5. A system approach to management
6. Continual improvement
7. A factual approach to decision making
8. Mutually beneficial supplier relationships
Quality Management Principles are being introduced? We've had QM principles for a long time. And, my understanding of the ISO 9001 revision is that we have now 7 QMP's:
Customer Focus, Leadership, Engagement of People, Process Approach, Improvement, Evidence-based Decision Making and Relationship Management.
What would be the
Improved consistency with traceability Principle?
? Take into account changes to the practices and technology of quality management since the last major revision in 2000, such as:
?Barcoding systems for customer property control
?More comprehensive, integrated quality management system (QMS) software
?Quality manuals, procedures, and forms now in digital format
Really? We did not have barcoding, digital documents and enterprise QMS software in 2000?
I wish the scrutiny over content of articles would force publications to raise the bar.