what is the ISO 9001:2000?

Answer 1

ISO 9001:2000 is and international quality management system certification.
and is offered to companies by registrars when they put a high degree of reliability on the company,,
its a process management that ensures consistent delivery of quality products as per the customer requirements,, adhering to the statutory and requlatory requiremnts,

its basically process control and intergration of processes,, and statistical analysis,,

it is not documentation, it only had 6 mandatory processes to be documented,, rest depends on the complexity of business and competency of personnel,,

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Answer 2

QMS Requirements is a document of approximately 30 pages, can be available from the national standards organization in each country. Suplimanted by two other standards viz., ISO 9000:2005 Quality management systems—Fundamentals and vocabulary and ISO 9004:2009 —References. Only ISO 9001 is directly audited against for third party assessment purposes.
The organization shall issue and maintain the following six documented procedures:
Control of Documents (4.2.3)
Control of Records (4.2.4)
Internal Audits (8.2.2)
Control of Nonconforming Product / Service (8.3)
Corrective Action (8.5.2)
Preventive Action (8.5.3) more at

Answer 3

This is a certification that asserts that your processes occur exactly as you have them documented. It in no way asserts that the processes are efficient or that your company is operating optimally. It simply confirms that you do what you say you are going to do.

Answer 4

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/ISOOnline.frontpage