EN ISO 9000:2005

Quality management systems - Fundamentals and vocabulary (ISO 9000:2005) EN ISO 9000:2005

Publication date:   Mar 28, 2007

Scope

ISO 9000:2005 describes fundamentals of quality management systems, which form the subject of the ISO 9000 family, and defines related terms.
It is applicable to the following:
a) organizations seeking advantage through the implementation of a quality management system;
b) organizations seeking confidence from their suppliers that their product requirements will be satisfied;
c) users of the products;
d) those concerned with a mutual understanding of the terminology used in quality management (e.g. suppliers, customers, regulators);
e) those internal or external to the organization who assess the quality management system or audit it for conformity with the requirements of ISO 9001 (e.g. auditors, regulators, certification/registration bodies);
f) those internal or external to the organization who give advice or training on the quality management system appropriate to that organization;
g) developers of related standards.

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