What is year ISO 9001:2008 Edition?

Officially released on November 15, 2008, the ISO 9001 Year 2008 Edition has brought much excitement to the quality management circle worldwide. Emphasizing a customer focused and result oriented process approach management model and a continual improvement philosophy.

ISO 9001 Year 2008 Edition Quality Management Process Model

The 8 Quality Management Principles
 
Year 2008 Edition stresses a Plan-Do-Check-Act improvement cycle and driven by the 8 fundamental quality management principles. 

• Customer management
• Leadership
• Involvement of people
• Process approach
• System approach to management
• Continual improvement
• Factual approach to decision making
• Mutually beneficial supplier relationship

 The Benefits

• Applicability to all product categories and all size of the organization
• Significant reduction in the amount of required documentation
• Connection of other quality management system like ISO14001 & 18001 (IMS)
• Greater orientation toward continually improvement and customer satisfaction