What are the ISO9000 series of standards?
The ISO 9000 series is a set of five individual, but related, international standards on quality management and quality assurance. They are generic i.e. not specific to any particular products or services. They can be used by manufacturing and service industries alike. These standards were developed to effectively document the quality system elements to be implemented in order to maintain an efficient quality system in a company. The ISO 9000 Series standards do not themselves specify the technology to be used for implementing quality system elements. There are several benefits to implementing this series. For example, it will guide you to build quality into your products and services and avoid costly after-the-fact inspections, warranty costs, and rework. You would, for example, define the inputs and outputs for all processes (a process is any work that is done to achieve something and each process should add value) and in this way each person knows what is expected of them and what t
