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Introduction to ISO 9000 Series
Loering M. Johnson, P.E. (Ret.)
Overview
Standards
documents are an increasingly essential part of industrial operations and
customer safety and satisfaction. For those involved in the supply of goods
and services, in assuring the quality and safety of activities and operations,
and in providing direction for future planning it is important that they be
aware of standards provisions, use these provisions in their activities, and
participate in the evolution of the standards that they use. In order to
understand and appreciate the standards applied, it is essential to have a basic
knowledge of the history of standards, an understanding of the standards
development process, and an appreciation of the course of development that has
been taken.
This
course is intended to provide background information to show the foundation from
which ISO quality standards were developed and to describe the early issues of
ISO 9000 quality standards. The course is intended to be useful for those who:
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have
recently become involved in using ISO 9000 documents and are interested in
knowing how they came to be the way they are,
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are
aware that they will soon become involved in the use of ISO 9000 documents and
would like to have background information about their development, and
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are
interested in a review of the standards development process as it relates to
quality standards.
This course describes ISO 9000
quality standards produced up to the early 1990’s. A second course will deal
with the 1994 and 2000 standards and will comment on development of the next
revision.
The student must take a multiple-choice quiz consisting of twenty questions at the end of
this course to obtain PDH credits.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Attained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and
skills:
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The history of standards
development
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The catalysts for
standardization, including industrialization and international commerce
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Early national and
international standards committees
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Categories of
standards-type documents, including codes, criterions, standards, recommended
practices, guides and specifications
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ANSI qualification methods
for standards developers
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The scope of each of the
early ISO 9000 Series documents
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Development,
documentation, auditing and certification of a quality program in accordance
with ISO 9000:1987.
Course
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