The ISO 9001 standard is currently under revision. The decision to do so wasn’t driven by one dramatic event happening in the marketplace, but rather by due diligence of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) committees and working groups that perform systematic reviews of standards. From a review completed in 2012 plus activities including open workshops with users of the standard, a web-based survey of users and potential users, and studying trends in quality management, it was determined that the standard needed to be updated.....
Historical significance
The organization today known as ISO began in 1926 as the International Federation of the National Standardizing Associations (ISA). It was suspended in 1942 during World War II. After the war, as the United States figured out how to best rebuild infrastructure, other countries were doing the same. ISA was approached by the recently formed United Nations Standards Coordinating Committee (UNSCC) with a proposal to form a new global standards body. So the key stakeholders from ISA and UNSCC representing 25 countries gathered together in October 1946 in London and agreed to join forces to create the new International Organization for Standardization; the new organization officially began operations in February 1947. Since then ISO has overseen the development of more than 19,500 international standards. Based on ISO’s neutrality, it was and still is headquartered in Switzerland.
ISO 9001, the first quality management standard, was originally published in 1987. It was based on the BS 5750 series of standards from British Standards Institution that were proposed to ISO in 1979. However, its history can be traced back some 20 years before that, to the publication of the United States Department of Defense MIL-Q-9858 standard in 1959. MIL-Q-9858 was revised into the NATO AQAP series of standards in 1969, which in turn were revised into the BS 5179 series of guidance standards published in 1974, and finally revised into the BS 5750 series of requirements standards in 1979 ..
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