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Certication to the International Standard
and Customer-Specic Requirements
Overview
Every organization worldwide is expected to follow some kind of basic quality
standards. In fact, it has become so critical that the International Organization
for Standardization has developed such a system called ISO 9001. This stan-
dard has been revised several times since the late 1980s and currently we are
at the 2008 revision. It is expected that a new version will be published by late
2015.The standard does not guarantee product quality, but rather establishes
the foundation for a good quality system. Because of this weakness, several
industries hav ...