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86 PCB007 MAGAZINE I AUGUST 2025 T H E R I G H T A P P ROAC H Get Ready for ISO 9001 Version 6 by Steve W illiams, The Right Approach C onsulting We are well past the normal five to seven years that a new revision of the ISO 9001 international quality standard gets released. It may be finished toward the end of 2025, with implementation start- ing in 2026, and there will be as many significant changes as we saw in the current 2015 version. A History of ISO Revisions The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) revises the ISO 9001 standard every five to seven years. The first revision came in 1994, fol- lowed by a major overhaul in 2000. Another revision occurred in 2008, but with only minor changes. The latest update, ISO 9001: 2015, was released in September 2015 and came with the most dramatic changes. Here is a quick history of the ISO revisions: ISO 9001: 1987 —The initial edition of the ISO 9001 standard was derived from a military quality standard and focused on manufacturing. There were originally three quality standards in the ISO family: • ISO 9001: Design, new product development, production, and installation • ISO 9002: Everything in ISO 9001 except new product development • ISO 9003: Final inspection and test ISO 9001: 1994—This first revision added the concept of preventive action rather than just checking conformance of the final product. ISO 9001: 2000—This second revision com- bined ISO 9001, ISO 9002 and ISO 9003 into a single, universally applicable standard that allowed