ISO certification deals with the fundamentals of quality management systems, which includes the eight management principles upon which the family of standards is based. ISO 9001 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard must fulfill.The ISO 9000 family of quality management systems standards is designed to help organizations to ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders while meeting statutory and regulatory requirements related to a product.
Standards in the ISO 9000 family include:
- ISO 9001:2015 – sets out the requirements of a quality management system
- ISO 9000:2015 – covers the basic concepts and language
- ISO 9004:2009 – focuses on how to make a quality management system more efficient and effective
- ISO 19011:2011 – sets out guidance on internal and external audits of quality management systems