ISO 9001:2015 will replace ISO 9001:2008. The revised ISO 9001 was published on Wednesday 23rd September 2015. This standard is acceptable globally.
ISO 9001:2015 identifies necessities for a quality management system where an organization requirements to reveal its ability to regularly offer product that meets customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements, and aims to increase customer fulfillment through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to client and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. All requirements of ISO 9001:2015 are common and are intended to be applicable to all organizations, regardless of type, size and product providing.
“We have now gone a step further, and ISO 9001:2015 is more focused on performance, instead of its predecessor prescriptive. We have attained this by merging the procedure approach with risk-based thinking, and employing the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle at all levels in the organization.
All ISO standards are reviewed in every five years to confirm that they stay relevant to the market environment. ISO 9001:2015 is the final result of a multi-year process including representatives from ISO member countries and shareholders from all around the world.
ISO 9001 2008 had five core sections (4 to 8) and ISO 9001 2015 now has seven (4 to 10). This is because the new edition uses the new Annex SL template. According to ISO, all future management system standards (MSSs) will use this new draft and share the same elementary requirements. As a result, all new MSSs will have the same basic look and feel.
Section 4.3 of ISO 9001 2015 says “The organization shall apply all the requirements of this International Standard if they are applicable within the determined scope of its quality management system”. So once you’ve determined the scope of your QMS, ISO 9001 2015 says that every requirement must be applied within the limitations defined by your statement of scope if it applies in your case.