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EDITORIAL
What will happen to ISO9000:1994 The current ISO 9000 family of quality standards contains over twenty seven standards documents. This prliferation of standards has been a particular concern of ISO 9000 users and customers. To respond to this concern, ISO/TC 176 has agreed tha the year 2000 quality management system standards will consist of four primary standards. i.e.,ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 9004 and ISO 19011. At present, it is intended that the other standards and documents in the ISO 9000 family will either be withdrwan, transferred to other technical committees, or replaced by technical reports, technical specifications or brochures (with an exception of ISO 10012, "Quality Assurance for Measuring Equipment, which will remain as an international standard). The migration of the other ISO 9000 family standards and documents to the year 2000 ISO 9000 family of standards has been reviewed during ISO/TC176's Plenary Meeting in San Francisco in September 1999, and recommendations will be balloted among member bodies during the quarter of 2000. To the maximum extent possible, the key points in the other standards and documents will integrated into four primary standards. |