# ISO 9001

> ISO 9001 (Quality management systems: Requirements) is the international standard for a quality management system; certification is issued by a certification body and covers the whole organisation's processes rather than technical competence.

- Source: https://amps.global/glossary/iso-9001/
- Type: Glossary
- Published: 2026-09-05
- Tags: accreditation, quality

## Key facts

- Current edition 2015; process approach, risk-based thinking, plan-do-check-act
- Certification (ISO 9001) is different from accreditation (ISO/IEC 17020, 17025), which additionally proves technical competence
- Requires document control, records, internal audits, corrective actions and management review
- Often required in tenders alongside accreditation

Also known as: ISO 9001:2015, quality management system certification.

## ISO 9001 versus accreditation

ISO 9001 says a company manages quality; ISO/IEC 17020 or 17025 accreditation says its inspections or tests are technically competent and impartial. Many inspection companies hold both, and the record-keeping requirements overlap heavily.

## ISO 9001 records in AMPS

Every action taken in AMPS is tracked by its history feature, and each job page holds the latest version of its documents with everyone notified when a document is updated. Documents saved through AMPS live in your own OneDrive, SharePoint or Google Drive, not on AMPS servers, so an existing QA folder structure keeps working unchanged and everything stays yours if you ever stop using AMPS. The AMPS reporting case study notes that because AMPS creates the report folder for every job, customers continue to comply with their QA system without changes.

## Related pages

- [Document control](https://amps.global/glossary/document-control/)
- [Internal audit](https://amps.global/glossary/internal-audit/)
- [Corrective and preventive action (CAPA)](https://amps.global/glossary/corrective-and-preventive-action/)

## Sources

- [ISO 9001:2015 at iso.org](https://www.iso.org/standard/62085.html)