Been reviewing the next version of ISO 9001, the committee draft (CD) of it, anyway; officially ISO/TC 176/SC 2/N 1147 dated 3 June 2013.
I'll do a few more detailed posts on this, and a podcast on my Facebook Page QMSC3 but I'm pretty pleased with two changes in particular.
The first is this whole "continuous/continual" improvement split hair. The 2008 version changed the word "continuous" to "continual" to express the idea that sometimes there are plateaus in the improvement journey and the word "continuous" implied a constantly increasing ramp of continuous. Really?
So now, the word "continual" has been changed to... drumroll - " ". Yep, no word at all; simply "Improvement". Now we can leave the semantics to the... semasiologists.
And that revelation leads me to the second: gone is "Preventive Action". Never liked the lines in the sand drawn by corrective action, preventive action, corrections, continual improvement - enough already. It just confuses people and dilutes the concept of Improvement in general. Now prevention ties nicely with the new (to 9001) concept of Risk.
And more on that in a later installment.
So, just a few quick notes on the next version of ISO 9001 (2015) -
Go forth, and calibrate thyself - Sal
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