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["Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>]

> From: tvoivozhd<mailto:tvoivozd AT infionline.net> 
> OK, this is Home-manufacturing p9st #2--specifically on home 
> manufacturing,, not other home business opportunities.
> 
> http://www.edd.state.nm.us/PRESS/news.php?_fn=view&_rn=20001020<http://www.edd.state.nm.us/PRESS/news.php?_fn=view&_rn=20001020>
>   9commit this to memory---ISO 9000, you can't live without it in the 
> manufacturing business)

Thanks, Tvo.  Nosey Rosie here worked with it 
for a company once, here's the main link :

http://www.iso.org/iso/en/iso9000-14000/index.html<http://www.iso.org/iso/en/iso9000-14000/index.html>
ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 - in brief
The ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families are among ISO's most widely known 
standards ever. ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 standards are implemented by some 634 
000 organizations in 152 countries. ISO 9000 has become an international 
reference for quality management requirements in business-to-business 
dealings, and ISO 14000 is well on the way to achieving as much, if not more, 
in enabling organizations to meet their environmental challenges.

The ISO 9000 family is primarily concerned with "quality management". This 
means what the organization does to fulfil:

  - the customer's quality requirements, and
  - applicable regulatory requirements, while aiming to
  - enhance customer satisfaction, and 
  - achieve continual improvement of its performance in pursuit of these 
objectives. 

The ISO 14000 family is primarily concerned with "environmental management". 
This means what the organization does to:

  - minimize harmful effects on the environment caused by its activities, and 
to
  - achieve continual improvement of its environmental performance.

The vast majority of ISO standards are highly specific to a particular 
product, material, or process. However, the standards that have earned the 
ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 families a worldwide reputation are known as "generic 
management system standards".

  a.. "Generic" means that the same standards can be applied: 
  - to any organization, large or small, whatever its product
  - including whether its "product" is actually a service,
  - in any sector of activity, and 
  - whether it is a business enterprise, a public administration, or a 
government department.

"Generic" also signifies that no matter what the organization's scope of 
activity, if it wants to establish a quality management system or an 
environmental management system, then such a system has a number of essential 
features for which the relevant standards of the ISO 9000 or ISO 14000 
families provide the requirements.

  a.. "Management system" refers to the organization's structure for managing 
its processes - or activities - that transform inputs of resources into a 
product or service which meet the organization's objectives, such as 
satisfying the customer's quality requirements, complying to regulations, or 
meeting environmental objectives. 

Latest update September 2003