Origin Of ISO 9000 Standards

www.iso9001store.com The story of ISO 9000 Standards is a story of standards, methods and regulation. The brief history that follows is in no way comprehensive but is intended to illustrate four things 1. that ISO 9000 standards are an ancient concept that survived several millennia; that a means of verifying compliance often follows the setting of standards; 2. that the formalizing of working practices is centuries old and seen as a means to consistently meet standards; 3. that market regulation (relative to the standard of goods and services) has been around for centuries for the protection of both craftsmen and traders. 4. ISO 9000 is a symptom of practices that were around centuries before anyone coined the term quality management. It is in some respects a natural progression that will continue to evolve. The story is told from a British viewpoint. ISO 9000 grew out of BS 5750, a standard published by the British Standards Institution (BSI) in 1979. Initially, it was used only in manufacturing industries. ISO 9000 is now employed across a variety of other types of businesses. It is a set of international standards of quality management systems. ISO 9000 has been accepted by more than 100 countries as their national quality assurance standard by the end of 1997. The history of ISO 9000 Standards dates back to Mil-Q-9858a, the first quality standard for military procurement established in 1959 by the US. By 1962, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration …