Overview of Various Quality Assurance Standards
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Quality assurance standards are published documents that are recognized by various bodies and are used to develop quality management systems in different organizations. There are various quality standards which organizations can adopt depending on the nature of their business. Reputed organizations prefer to do business with organizations that follow good quality management systems. This assures them that the deliverables will be of good quality and that there will be no hassles in doing business with such firms.
Some Of The Quality Assurance Standards Include
ISO 9001
This is the most widely used standard. Any manufacturing or service industry can adopt this quality guarantee standard. It is based on eight principles, which determine that the quality systems developed and implemented by the organization help in satisfying customer needs properly. Organizations have to undergo audit process by an authorized body in order to get certified for ISO 9001. The organizations that are ISO 9001 certified are required to properly document, implement, and review their quality management systems periodically.
SQuaRE
This is a software quality standard. Quality is very important in IT industry. The software quality should strictly be maintained so that the customers are satisfied otherwise it results in huge losses for both customers and the company. ISO/IEC 25000 provides guidance to SQuaRE. These quality assurance standards are used to maintain the quality of software during the product life cycle process like defining the requirements of the customers, design, implementation, testing, and validation process. Also, it is used to maintain the quality while the product is in use.
TS 16949
This standard is specially meant for the automobile industry and has been developed by ISO and the IATF. Any other industry involved in supply chain management can also use this standard to improve their quality. Some of the big names in the field of automobile industry are members of IATF and hence TS 16949 is recognized by almost the entire automobile industry for quality. Adopting this standard help automobile companies all over the world to do business with foreign companies.
ISO 22000
ISO 22000 is used in food industry to maintain food safety and quality. Food industry has to maintain very stringent quality and safety parameters as bad quality of food can affect the health of the consumers. ISO 22000 quality assurance standards help these industries to develop quality management systems in such a way that the quality of food is maintained at all stages like farming, food processing, food packaging etc. This standard is generally combined with ISO 9001 and HACCP to obtain the optimum results.
ISO 17025
ISO 17025 is used for testing and calibration laboratories. Laboratories that conduct testing and calibration as well as organizations that have internal laboratories for similar tasks can follow this standard. To get ISO 17025 certification, the laboratories and organizations have to fulfill some technical and management requirements as mentioned in this standard. One of the benefits of getting ISO 17025 certification is that the test results of such laboratories are internationally accepted.
Besides the above, there are various other quality assurance standards followed by the organizations to develop their quality management systems. Following international standards helps organizations to improve their quality continuously as well as do business globally.
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