Branching out - Industry Standards based upon ISO 9001

Most of the information in this blog has (obviously) been about ISO 9001, but there are several other standards which take ISO 9001 and configure it for a specific industry.  all follow the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) platform with a very similar structure.

Having "industry specific" standards raises the following questoins:

1. Don't special QMS's defeat the purpose of a uniformly accepted standard?
2. What is really different from one to the next?
3. Doesn't every vehicle need to be safe? Are Automobiles that much different than aircraft? 
4. Why doesn't ISO 9001 work for all of these industries?

These are great questions and learning about the different standards will shed some light on the reasons why.

January will begin a series of topics on what those standards are and why they came into existence. They include:

• ISO 13485 - Medical Devices Quality Managment System

• ISO 14001 - Environmental Management Systems

• AS9100/AS9110/AS9120 - Aerospace Quality Management Systems for Manufacturing/Maintenance Facilities/Pass-Through Parts Distribution

• ISO/TS 16949 - Automotive Industry Quality Management System

• ISO 17025 - Labratory Quality Management System

• and more...

Enjoy this holiday season and come back to learn from this informative series.

 

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