Why ISO Standards are ISO9001 & 2000

9001 is just a number. Doesn't mean anything.

2000 may have been the year of adoption of the specification.

Don't overthink things.

ISO 9000, ISO 9001, ISO 2000 are the years the standards were adopted. Hence I registered to be ISO 9000 qualified in 1989 - 1990. Or I qualified to be ISO 2001 in 2010.

This is total nonsense. If it were true they could only publish one new standard a year!

In fact the first number is arbitrary, new standards being numbered in sequence, with a bit of tinkering to make the most important more memorable. Second number is the date of publication, as there was a major update in 2000.

9001 is the number of ISO and 2000 is the version of the standard. It is not the year of adoption.

ISO 9001:2000 specifies requirements for a quality management system where an organization

1. needs to demonstrate its ability to consistently provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements, and

2. aims to enhance customer satisfaction through the effective application of the system, including processes for continual improvement of the system and the assurance of conformity to customer and applicable regulatory requirements.

All requirements of this International Standard are generic and are intended to be applicable to all organizations, regardless of type, size and product provided.

Where any requirement(s) of this International Standard cannot be applied due to the nature of an organization and its product, this can be considered for exclusion.

Where exclusions are made, claims of conformity to this International Standard are not acceptable unless these exclusions are limited to requirements within clause 7, and such exclusions do not affect the organization's ability, or responsibility, to provide product that meets customer and applicable regulatory requirements.

Revised by: ISO 9001:2008

ISO 9000 is a family of standards related to quality management systems and designed to help organizations ensure that they meet the needs of customers and other stakeholders. The standards are published by ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, and available through National standards bodies. ISO 9000 deals with the fundamentals of quality management systems, including the eight management principles on which the family of standards is based. ISO 9001 deals with the requirements that organizations wishing to meet the standard have to fulfill.

ISO 9000 was first published in 1987. It was based on the BS 5750 series of standards from BSI that were proposed to ISO in 1979. However, its history can be traced back some twenty years before that, to the publication of the 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 before being submitted to ISO.

BSI has been certifying organizations for their quality management systems since 1978. Its first certification (FM 00001) is still extant and held by Tarmac, a successor to the original company which held this certificate. Today BSI claims to certify organizations at nearly 70,000 sites globally.The development of the ISO 9000 series is shown in the diagram to the right.

Third party certification bodies provide independent confirmation that organizations meet the requirements of ISO 9001. Over a million organizations worldwide are independently certified, making ISO 9001 one of the most widely used management tools in the world today. Despite widespread use, however, the ISO certification process has been criticized as being wasteful and not being useful for all organizations

Most of what you have is true. The numbers are arbitrary in nature. But, the 9001 standard was put together in the late to early 70's & 80's. Hence they used the 9001 date as the standard point for the numbering, with the thought that improvements would be added on during the later years. As it turned out revisions were not made on a date time line and they still used the 2000, series of numbering.

My recall of the process from years ago.

...because it takes till the year 9000 to pay off the certification process..