The ISO 9001:2008 quality standard is the base standard used around the world to qualify a company’s quality system. The ISO body has established a set of guidelines to make sure the basic elements of quality control in any company are in place, and no matter where the company resides these principles are adhered to.
Requirement One: Create a quality policy and develop measurable objectives
Each company seeking ISO registration must first come up with a quality policy, and a set of objectives that are measureable and can be approved upon. When evaluating quality management systems, select software that will allow you to setup benchmarks on built-in metrics, in the software.
Since this software will be used on a day to day basis, you want to be able to have real time access to the data, needed to compile the metrics.
The software should allow you to establish and save benchmarks, and give you the ability to graph and present objectives, to show compliance to the standard.
The ISO body recognizes not all companies can comply with each element of the standards; service companies may not have any design departments, and therefore are not required to meet this part of the standard.
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