FIFTH EDITION OF ISO 9000 COMPENDIUM

The complete ISO 9000 family of International Standards for quality
management and quality assurance is available in the newly published fifth
edition of the ISO 9000 Compendium.

The compendium includes the 1994 "Phase 1" revisions made by ISO
(International Organization for Standardization) of the core series - ISO
9000-1, ISO 9001, ISO 9002, ISO 9003 and ISO 9004-1 - which has been
adopted in more than 70 countries.

These standards have been revised to take into account users' experience
and developments in the field of quality since the ISO 9000 series was
first published in 1987.

ISO 9000-1 is the "route map" to the series; ISO 9004-1 presents the
elements of a quality management system, while ISO 9001, ISO 9002 and ISO
9003 are quality assurance models for use in support of contracts.

The fifth edition of the ISO 9000 Compendium also contains the other
standards which make up the ISO 9000 family, including guidelines for
auditing quality systems, and new additions currently going through the
approval process by ISO as draft International Standards.

The compendium (full title ISO Standards Compendium: ISO 9000 - Quality
Management) is available in separate English (396 pages, ISBN
92-67-10206-0) and French (424 pages, ISBN 92-67-20206-5) editions, price
CHF 280, from ISO national member bodies, or from the ISO Central
Secretariat.

The ISO 9000 family provides generic guidelines on the implementation of a
quality management system as a framework for the continuous improvement of
any organization, whatever its sector of activity.

According to a recent survey, more than 70000 organizations around the
world have been issued ISO 9000 certificates, attesting that they meet the
requirements of one of the ISO 9000 quality assurance models.

ISO develops and maintains the ISO 9000 family but does not itself operate
any system for verifying conformance to the standards, nor does it issue
ISO 9000 certificates.

The ISO 9000 quality management standards are among more than 9400
voluntary International Standards developed by ISO over almost all
technical fields.

 ============================================================
 From the  'New Product News'  Electronic News Service on....
 AOL (Keyword = New Products) & Delphi (GO COMPUTING PRODUCT)
 ============================================================
 This information was processed from data provided by the 
 company or author mentioned. For additional details, please 
 contact them directly at the address/phone number indicated.
 All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
 ============================================================
 All submissions for this service should be addressed to:
 BAKER ENTERPRISES,  20 Ferro Dr,  Sewell, NJ  08080  U.S.A.
 Email: RBakerPC (AOL/Delphi), rbakerpc@delphi.com (Internet)
 ============================================================
