ISO 9000 2005 Definitions

Also see our NEW ISO 9000 2015 Quality Management Definitions.

Benchmarking - Characteristics - Concessions - Conformity
Continual Improvement - Corrections - Corrective Actions - Customers
Customer Satisfaction - Design & Development Design & Development Review
Design & Development Validation - Design & Development Verification - Effectiveness
Efficiency - Infrastructure - Inspection - Interested Party - Key Indicators - Management
Management Review - Measuring Equipment - Mission - Nonconforming Product
Nonconformity - Objective Evidence - Organization's Environment
Outsourced Process - Preventive Action - Procedure - Process - Process Approach
Process-based QMS - Product - Product Inspection - Product Realization - Quality
Quality Assurance - Quality Characteristic - Quality Control - Quality Improvement
Quality Management - Quality Management System - Quality Manual - Quality Plan
Quality Planning - Quality Policy - Quality Objectives - Record - Requirement
Review - Self-assessment - Service - Special Process - Standard - Strategy
 Supplier - Sustained Success - Systems Approach - Top Management
Traceability - Validation - Values - Verification - Vision - Work Environment

OTHER PLAIN ENGLISH MANAGEMENT DICTIONARIES
IT Service Management - Auditing - Information Security - Risk Management
Business Continuity - Environmental Management - Occupational Health and Safety
Food Safety - Supply Chain Security - Software Quality Aerospace Quality Management

 Medical Device Risk Management - Medical Device Quality Management


Benchmarking

Benchmarking is a methodology that is used to search for best
practices. Benchmarking can be applied to strategies, policies,
operations, processes, products, and organizational structures.
By finding and adopting best practices you can improve your
organization’s overall performance.

Best practices can be found either within your own organization or
within other organizations. It usually means identifying organizations
that are doing something in the best possible way and then trying to
emulate how they do it.

There are at least two types of external benchmarking: competitive
benchmarking and generic benchmarking. Competitive benchmarking
involves comparing how you do things with how your competitors do
things while generic benchmarking involves comparing yourself with
organizations in unrelated sectors.

In order to carry out benchmarking projects, you need to develop
a benchmarking methodology. Your benchmarking methodology
should define rules that control:

  1. How the scope of each project is defined.
  2. How benchmarking partners are selected.
  3. How confidentiality is respected and ensured.
  4. How benchmarking characteristics are specified.
  5. How benchmarking indicators or metrics are chosen.
  6. How benchmarking data is collected and analyzed.
  7. How potential improvements are identified.
  8. How improvement plans are developed.
  9. How your benchmarking experience is added
    to your organization’s knowledge base.

Characteristic

A characteristic is a distinctive feature or property of something.
Characteristics can be inherent or assigned. An inherent
characteristic
exists in something or is a permanent feature
of something, while an assigned characteristic is a feature
that is attributed or attached to something.

Concession

A concession is a special approval that is granted to release
a nonconforming product for use or delivery. Concessions are
usually limited by time and quantity and tend to specify that
nonconforming characteristics may not violate specified limits.

Conformity

To conform means to meet or comply with requirements.
There are many types of requirements. There are quality
requirements, customer requirements, product requirements,
management requirements, legal requirements, and so on.

Requirements can be explicitly specified (like the ISO 9001
requirements) or implied. A specified requirement is one that
has been stated (in a document, for example). When your
organization meets a requirement, you can say that it
conforms to that requirement.

Continual improvement

Continual improvement is a set of recurring activities that an
organization carries out in order to enhance its ability to meet
requirements
. Continual improvements can be achieved by
carrying out audits, self-assessments, management reviews,
and benchmarking projects. Continual improvements can also
be realized by collecting data, analyzing information, setting
objectives, and implementing corrective and preventive actions.

Correction

A correction is any action that is taken to eliminate a
nonconformity. However, corrections do not address
causes. When applied to products, corrections can
include reworking products, reprocessing them,
regrading them, assigning them to a different
use, or simply destroying them.

Corrective action

Corrective actions are steps that are taken to eliminate
the causes of existing nonconformities in order to prevent
recurrence. The corrective action process tries to make
sure that existing nonconformities and potentially
undesirable situations don’t happen again.

Customer

A customer is anyone who receives products or services from a
supplier organization. Customers can be people or organizations
and can be either external or internal to the supplier organization.
For example, a factory may supply products or services to another
factory (customer) within the same organization. According to
ISO 9000, examples of customers include clients, consumers,
end-users, purchasers, retailers, and beneficiaries.

Customer satisfaction

Customer satisfaction is a perception. It is also a question of
degree. It can vary from high satisfaction to low satisfaction.
If customers believe that you've met their requirements, they
experience high satisfaction. If they believe that you've not
met their requirements, they experience low satisfaction.

Since satisfaction is a perception, customers may not be
satisfied even though you’ve met all contractual requirements.
Just because you haven’t received any complaints doesn’t
mean that customers are satisfied.

There are many ways to monitor and measure customer
satisfaction
. You can use customer satisfaction and opinion
surveys; you can collect product quality data (post delivery),
track warranty claims, examine dealer reports, study customer
compliments and criticisms, and analyze lost business
opportunities.

Design and development

Design and development is a process (or a set of processes).
This process uses resources to transform requirements (inputs)
into characteristics or specifications (outputs) for products,
processes, and systems.

You may treat design and development as different stages
of a single integrated design and development process or
you may treat design and development as two (or more)
separate processes. You may also use the terms design
and development interchangeably if they mean the
same thing in your organization.

Design and development review

Design and development review is a set of activities whose purpose
is to evaluate the suitability, adequacy, effectiveness, and sometimes
the efficiency of a set of characteristics or specifications. Design and
development review
can be used to evaluate product, process, and
system characteristics or specifications. In this context, an effective
set of characteristics or specifications is one that has the potential
to achieve planned results or realize planned activities.

Design and development validation

Design and development validation is a process. This process uses
objective evidence to confirm that products meet the requirements
which define their intended use or application. Whenever specified
requirements have been met, a validated status is achieved. The
process of validation can be carried out under realistic use
conditions or within a simulated use environment.

Design and development verification

Design and development verification is a process. It uses objective
evidence to confirm that design and development outputs meet
design and development input requirements. Whenever specified
input requirements have been met, a verified status is achieved.

Effectiveness

Effectiveness refers to the degree to which a planned effect is
achieved. Planned activities are effective if these activities are
realized. Similarly, planned results are effective if these results
are actually achieved.

For example, an effective process is one that realizes planned
activities and achieves planned results. Similarly, an effective set
of characteristics or specifications
is one that has the potential to
realize planned activities and achieve planned results.

Efficiency

Efficiency is a relationship between results achieved (outputs) and
resources used (inputs). Efficiency can be enhanced by achieving
more with the same or fewer resources. The efficiency of a process
or system can be enhanced by achieving more or getting better
results (outputs) with the same or fewer resources (inputs).

Infrastructure

The term infrastructure refers to the entire system of facilities,
equipment, and services that an organization needs in order to
function. According to ISO 9001, Part 6.3, the term infrastructure
includes buildings and workspaces (including related utilities),
process equipment (both hardware and software), support
services (such as transportation and communications),
and information systems.

Inspection

Inspections use observation, measurement, testing and
judgment to evaluate conformity.
Inspection results are
compared with specified requirements in order to establish
whether conformity has been achieved. Product inspections
compare product characteristics with product requirements
in order to evaluate conformity.

Interested party

An interested party is a person or group that has a stake in the
success or performance of an organization. Interested parties
may be directly affected by the organization or actively concerned
about its performance. Interested parties can come from inside or
outside of the organization. Examples of interested parties include
customers, suppliers, owners, partners, employees, unions,
bankers, or members of the general public. Interested
parties
are also referred to as stakeholders.

Key performance indicator (KPI)

A key performance indicator (KPI) is a metric or measure. KPIs are
used to quantify and evaluate organizational success. They measure
how much success you’ve had and how much progress you’ve made
relative to the objectives you wish to achieve. KPIs are also used to
set measurable objectives, evaluate progress, monitor trends, make
improvements, and support decision making. KPIs should be
quantifiable and appropriate and should collect information
that is useful to your organization and relevant to the
needs and expectations of interested parties.

Examples of KPIs include the following: average revenue per
customer, customer attrition rate, student failure rate, average
response time, average delivery time, employee retention rate,
return on equity, lost time due to accidents, and energy costs
per unit of production.

The following analogy might help make the point: when you go
to your doctor he or she might measure blood pressure, cholesterol
levels, heart rate, and your body mass index as key indicators of
health. KPIs try to do the same thing for organizations.

Management

The term management refers to all the activities that are used
to coordinate, direct, and control an organization. In this context,
the term management does not refer to people. It refers to activities.
ISO 9000 uses the term top management to refer to people.

Management review

The overall purpose of a management review is to evaluate the
suitability, adequacy, and effectiveness of an organization's quality
management system, and to look for improvement opportunities.

Management reviews are also used to identify and assess
opportunities to change an organization’s quality policy and
quality objectives, to address resource needs, and to look for
opportunities to improve its products.

Measuring equipment

In the context of this standard, measuring equipment includes all
the things that are needed to carry out a measurement process.
Accordingly, measuring equipment includes measuring instruments
and apparatuses as well as all the associated software, standards,
and reference materials.

Mission

According to ISO 9004, a mission statement explains why an
organization exists. It defines its reason for being (its raison d'être).

Nonconforming product

When one or more characteristics of a product fail to meet
specified requirements, it is referred to as a nonconforming product.
When a product deviates from specified product requirements, it
fails to conform. Nonconforming products must be identified and
controlled to prevent unintended use or delivery.

A product is the output of a process. Products can be tangible
or intangible. ISO 9000 lists four generic product categories:
services, software, hardware, and processed materials.

Nonconformity

Nonconformity refers to a failure to comply with requirements.
A requirement is a need, expectation, or obligation. It can be
stated or implied by an organization, its customers, or other
interested parties.

There are many types of requirements. Some of these
include quality requirements, customer requirements,
management requirements, product requirements, and
legal requirements. Whenever your organization fails to
meet one of these requirements, a nonconformity occurs.
ISO 9001 lists quality management system requirements.
When your organization deviates from these requirements,
a nonconformity occurs.

Objective evidence

Objective evidence is information that shows or proves
that something exists or is true. Objective evidence can
be collected by performing observations, measurements,
tests, or by using any other suitable method.

Organization's Environment

Your organization’s environment includes all the internal and
external factors and conditions that can affect how well you
achieve your objectives and how you treat interested parties.

Outsourced process

An outsourced process is any process that is part of your
organization’s quality management system (QMS) but is
performed by a party that is external to your organization.

According to ISO 9001, you must identify and control your
outsourced processes, and you must ensure that each
outsourced process is effective. You also need to figure
out how to control the interaction between internal and
outsourced processes.

A process is a set of activities that are interrelated or that
interact with one another. Processes use resources to
transform inputs into outputs.

According to ISO/TC 176/SC 2/N526R, “the terms subcontract and
outsource are interchangeable and have the same meaning”.

Preventive action

Preventive actions are steps that are taken to remove the
causes of potential nonconformities or potential situations
that are undesirable.

The preventive action process is designed to prevent the
occurrence of nonconformities or situations that do not yet
exist. It tries to prevent occurrence by eliminating causes.

While corrective actions prevent recurrence, preventive
actions
prevent occurrence. Both types of actions are
intended to prevent nonconformities.

Preventive actions address potential problems, ones that
haven't yet occurred. In general, the preventive action
process
can be thought of as a risk analysis process.

Procedure

A procedure is a way of carrying out a process or activity.
According to ISO 9000, procedures may or may not be
documented. However, in most cases, ISO 9001 expects
you to document your procedures.

Documented procedures can be very general or very detailed,
or anywhere in between. While a general procedure could take
the form of a simple flow diagram, a detailed procedure could
be a one page form or it could be several pages of text.

A detailed procedure defines and controls the work that should
be done and explains how it should be done, who should do
it, and under what circumstances. In addition, it explains what
authority and what responsibility has been allocated, which
inputs should be used, and what outputs should be generated.

Process

A process is a set of activities that are interrelated or that
interact with one another. Processes use resources to
transform inputs into outputs. Processes are interconnected
because the output from one process becomes the input for
another process. In effect, processes are “glued” together
by means of such input output relationships.

Organizational processes should be planned and carried out
under controlled conditions. An effective process is one that
realizes planned activities and achieves planned results.

Process approach

The process approach is a management strategy. When
managers use a process approach, it means that they manage
the processes that make up their organization, the interaction
between these processes, and the inputs and outputs that
tie these processes together.

Process-based quality management system (QMS)

A process-based quality management system uses a
process approach to manage and control how its quality
policy is implemented and how its quality objectives are
achieved. A process-based QMS is a network of
interrelated and interconnected processes.

Each process uses resources to transform inputs into outputs.
Since the output of one process becomes the input of another
process, processes interact and are interrelated by means of
such input-output relationships. These process interactions
create a single integrated process-based QMS.

The concept of a “process-based quality management system
is briefly mentioned in the introduction to ISO 9001 (section 0.2).
However, ISO 9000 does not formally define this important term
so we've given it a try.

Product

A product is the output of a process. Products can be tangible
or intangible. ISO 9000 lists four generic product categories:
services, software, hardware, and processed materials. Many
products combine several of these categories. For example,
an automobile (a product) combines hardware (e.g. tires),
software (e.g. engine control algorithms), and processed
materials (e.g. lubricants).

Service is always the result of an interaction between a
service supplier and a customer and can take many forms.
Service
can be provided to support an organization’s own
products (e.g. warranty service or the serving of meals).
Conversely, service can be provided for a product supplied
by a customer (e.g. a repair service or a delivery service).
Service
can also involve the provision of an intangible
thing to a customer (e.g. entertainment, transportation,
or advice). While software is intangible, and includes
things like approaches and procedures, hardware
and processed materials are tangible and are often
referred to as goods.

Product inspection

Product inspection is an activity that compares product
characteristics with product requirements in order to evaluate
conformity. More precisely, a product inspection compares one
or more characteristics of a product with specified requirements
in order to determine if the product meets these requirements.
Product inspections use observation, measurement, testing
and judgment to evaluate conformity.

Product realization

A product starts out as an idea. The idea is realized or actualized
by following a set of product realization processes. Product
realization
refers to all the processes that are used to bring
products into being.

Quality

The quality of something can be determined by comparing
a set of inherent characteristics with a set of requirements.
If those inherent characteristics meet all requirements, high
or excellent quality is achieved. If those characteristics do
not meet all requirements, a low or poor level of quality
is achieved.

Quality is, therefore, a question of degree. As a result,
the central quality question is: How well does this set of
inherent characteristics comply with this set of requirements?
In short, the quality of something depends on a set of inherent
characteristics and a set of requirements and how
well the former complies with the latter.

According to this definition, quality is a relative concept.
By linking quality to requirements, ISO 9000 argues that the
quality
of something cannot be established in a vacuum.
Quality
is always relative to a set of requirements.

Quality assurance (QA)

Quality assurance is a set of activities intended to establish
confidence that quality requirements will be met. QA is one
part of quality management.

Quality characteristic

A quality characteristic is tied to a requirement and is an inherent
feature or property of a product, process, or system.

A requirement is a need, expectation, or obligation. It can be stated
or implied by an organization, its customers, or other interested
parties. An inherent feature or property exists in something
or is a permanent characteristic of something.

Quality control

Quality control is a set of activities intended to ensure that
quality requirements are actually being met. Quality control
is one part of quality management.

Quality improvement

Quality improvement refers to anything that enhances an
organization's ability to meet quality requirements. Quality
improvement
is one part of quality management.

Quality management

Quality management includes all the activities that organizations
use to direct, control, and coordinate quality. These activities
include formulating a quality policy and setting quality objectives.
They also include quality planning, quality control, quality
assurance, and quality improvement.

Quality management system (QMS)

A quality management system is a set of interrelated or interacting
elements that organizations use to direct and control how quality
policies are implemented and quality objectives are achieved.

A process-based QMS uses a process approach to manage
and control how its quality policy is implemented and quality
objectives are achieved. A process-based QMS is a network
of many interrelated and interconnected processes (elements).

Each process uses resources to transform inputs into outputs.
Since the output of one process becomes the input of another
process, processes interact and are interrelated by means of
such input-output relationships. These process interactions
create a single process-based QMS.

Quality manual

A quality manual documents an organization's quality
management system (QMS). It can be a paper manual
or an electronic manual. According to ISO 9001 section
4.2.2, your quality manual should:

  • Define the scope of your QMS.
    • Explain reductions in the scope of your QMS.
    • Justify all exclusions (reductions in scope).
  • Describe how your QMS processes interact.
  • Document your quality procedures or refer to them.

Notice that an ISO 9001 quality manual does not regurgitate the
ISO 9001 standard. While this is a common practice, it not only fails
to comply with the standard it also fails to serve any useful function.

NOTE: ISO 9004 2009 does not require a quality manual.

Quality planning

Quality planning involves setting quality objectives and then
specifying the operational processes and resources that will
be needed to achieve those objectives. Quality planning is
one part of quality management.

Quality plan

A quality plan is a document that is used to specify the procedures
and resources that will be needed to carry out a project, perform a
process, realize a product, or manage a contract. Quality plans
also specify who will do what and when.

Quality policy

An organization’s quality policy defines top management’s
commitment to quality. A quality policy statement should
describe an organization’s general quality orientation
and clarify its basic intentions.

Quality policies should be used to generate quality objectives
and should serve as a general framework for action. Quality
policies
can be based on the ISO 9000 Quality Management
Principles and should be consistent with the organization’s
other policies.

Quality objectives

A quality objective is a quality oriented goal. A quality
objective
is something you aim for or try to achieve.

Quality objectives are generally based on or derived from
an organization’s quality policy and must be consistent
with it. They are usually formulated at all relevant levels
within the organization and for all relevant functions.

Record

A record is a type of document. Records provide evidence that
activities have been performed or results have been achieved.
They always document the past. Records can, for example, be
used to show that traceability requirements are being met, that
verification is being performed, and that preventive and
corrective actions are being carried out.

Requirement

A requirement is a need, expectation, or obligation. It can be
stated or implied by an organization, its customers, or other
interested parties. A specified requirement is one that has
been stated (in a document for example), whereas an implied
requirement
is a need, expectation, or obligation that is
common practice or customary.

There are many types of requirements. Some of these include
quality requirements, customer requirements, management
requirements, product requirements, and legal requirements.

Review

A review is an activity. Its purpose is to figure out how well
the thing being reviewed is capable of achieving established
objectives. Reviews ask the following question: is the subject
of the review a suitable, adequate, effective, and efficient way
of achieving your organization’s objectives?

There are many kinds of reviews. Some of these include
management reviews, design and development reviews,
customer requirement reviews, and nonconformity reviews.
Relative to the previous types of reviews, the focus of each
review is as follows: quality management systems, design
characteristics and specifications, customer requirements,
and nonconformities, respectively.

Self-assessment

According to ISO 9004, a self-assessment is a comprehensive
and systematic review of an organization’s overall maturity and
is used to help achieve and sustain organizational success.

Maturity self-assessments evaluate an organization’s practices and
performance and identify improvement and innovation opportunities.
Self-assessment results are used to identify and recognize best
practices and to encourage innovation and improvement.

Service

According to ISO 9000, a service is a type of product. Service is
always the result of an activity or interaction between a service
supplier and a customer and can take many forms.

Service can be provided to support an organization’s own
products (e.g. warranty service or the serving of meals).
Conversely, service can be provided for a product supplied
by a customer (e.g. a repair service or a delivery service).
Service can also involve the provision of an intangible thing
to a customer (e.g. entertainment, transportation, or advice).

Special process

A special process is any production or service delivery process
that generates outputs that cannot be measured, monitored, or
verified until it's too late. It's often too late because deficiencies
may not be obvious until after the resulting products have been
used or services have been delivered. In order to prevent output
deficiencies, these special processes must be validated in order
to prove that they can generate planned results.

Standard

A standard is a document. It is a set of rules that control how
people develop and manage materials, products, services,
technologies, processes, and systems.

ISO's standards are agreements. ISO refers to them as
agreements because its members must agree on content and
give formal approval before they are published. ISO standards
are developed by technical committees. Members of these
committees come from many countries. Therefore, ISO
standards tend to have very broad support.

Strategy

A strategy is a logically structured plan or method for achieving long
term goals. According to ISO 9004, you need to develop a strategy and
policies to ensure that your organization’s mission, vision, and values
are accepted and supported by interested parties.

Supplier

A supplier is a person or an organization that provides products.
Suppliers can be either internal or external to the organization.
Internal suppliers provide products to people within their own
organization while external suppliers provide products to other
organizations. Examples of suppliers include organizations and
people who produce, distribute, or sell products, provide
services, or publish information.

Sustained success

According to ISO 9004 2009, an organization achieves sustained
success
when it meets its objectives and continues to do so over the
long term. It further says that objectives can only be achieved if the
organization consistently meets the needs and expectations of
interested parties (stakeholders).

Systems approach

When managers use a systems approach, it means that they
treat the interrelated processes that make up an organization
as an integrated system and then they use this system to achieve
its objectives. A system is a set of elements that are interrelated
or interact with one another.

Top management

When ISO 9001 (and ISO 9004) uses the term top management
it is referring to a person or a group of people at the highest level
within an organization. It refers to the people who coordinate,
direct, and control organizations.

The term management refers to all the activities that are used
to coordinate, direct, and control an organization. The term
management does not refer to people. It refers to activities.

Traceability

Traceability is the ability to identify and trace the history,
distribution, location, and application of products, parts, and
materials. A traceability system records and follows the trail as
products, parts, and materials come from suppliers and are
processed and ultimately distributed as end products.

Validation

Validation is a process. It uses objective evidence to confirm that
the requirements which define an intended use or application have
been met. Whenever all requirements have been met, a validated
status
is achieved. The process of validation can be carried out
under realistic use conditions or within a simulated use
environment.

In the context of this standard, the term validation is used in
at least two different situations: design and development and
production and service provision. Design and development
validations
use objective evidence to confirm that products
meet the requirements which define their intended use
or application.

Production and service provision processes must be validated
whenever process outputs cannot be measured, monitored, or
verified until after the product is in use or the service has been
delivered (by then it’s too late to do anything about output
deficiencies and defects). In this case, validations use objective
evidence to confirm that production and service provision
processes are capable of producing planned results.

Values

According to ISO 9004, your values are the general principles
and beliefs that are important to your organization.

Verification

Verification is a process. It uses objective evidence to confirm
that specified requirements have been met. Whenever specified
requirements have been met, a verified status is achieved.

In the context of this standard, the term verification is used in
at least two different situations: design and development and
purchasing. Design and development verifications use objective
evidence to confirm that design and development outputs meet
specified input requirements. Similarly, objective evidence must
be used to verify or confirm that purchased products meet
specified purchasing requirements.

There are many ways to verify that requirements have been met.
For example, you could do tests, perform demonstrations, carry
out alternative calculations, compare a new design specification
with a proven design specification, or you could inspect
documents before you issue them.

Vision

According to ISO 9004, an organization's vision describes what
it wants to be and how it wants to be seen by interested parties.

Work environment

The term work environment refers to working conditions. It
refers to all of the conditions and factors that influence work.
In general, these include physical, social, psychological, and
environmental conditions and factors.
Work environment
includes lighting, temperature, and noise factors, as well as
the whole range of ergonomic influences. It also includes
things like supervisory practices as well as reward and
recognition programs. All of these things influence work.

We have translated ISO’s quality management definitions into plain
English in order to make them easier to understand. Our plain English
definitions are primarily based on the official definitions found in the
ISO 9000 2005 standard. However, we also consider how ISO 9001 2008
and ISO 9004 2009 actually use these terms, and sometimes we use
several definitions to construct a single definition of a more complex
concept that is used in either the ISO 9001 or ISO 9004 standard
but not explicitly defined in the ISO 9000 standard.

ISO 9001 2015 LIBRARY

ISO 9001 2015 Introduction

Quality Management Principles

Outline of ISO 9001 2015 Standard

Overview of ISO 9001 2015 Standard

ISO 9001 2015 versus ISO 9001 2008

Plain English ISO 9001 2015 Definitions

ISO's Process Approach in Plain English

ISO 9001 2015 Translated into Plain English

Plain English Quality Management Checklist

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