How does ISO 9001:2000 relate to the needs of specific business sectors?
The text of ISO 9001:2000 is more generic than the 1994 version in order to be applicable to different types of product and to organizations of different sizes. Due to this generic nature it may be that some industrial or commercial sectors will identify additional requirements to attend to their specific needs. To assure consistency between the ISO 9001 requirements and sector requirements, a pilot study was conducted using the development of an automotive industry document as the test vehicle. The pilot project successfully achieved the publication of an ISO technical specification (ISO/TS 16949).