How does ISO 9000 Work?
Here’s how it works. You decide that you need to develop a quality management system that complies with the ISO 9001 requirements. That’s your mission. You choose to follow this path because you feel the need to control or improve the quality of your products and services, to reduce the costs associated with poor quality, or to become more competitive. Or, you choose this path simply because your customers expect you to do so or because a governmental body has made it mandatory. You then develop a quality management system that meets the requirements specified by ISO 9001. In the course of doing so, you may also wish to consult the ISO 9000 definitions and the ISO 9004 guidelines. But how do you develop such a quality management system? There are at least two approaches. You can either do a gap analysis or follow a detailed quality management system development plan. If you’ve already got a functioning quality management system, we suggest that you carry out a gap analysis. A gap analy
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