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Evidence for how production quality is controlled.

International standards-development process · final draft international standard under publication

ISO/FDIS 9001 — Quality management systems — Requirements

ISO lists the sixth edition of ISO 9001 in final production and says it will replace ISO 9001:2015 when published.

Under publication; ISO expects Edition 6 in September 2026Not yet the published replacement at the July 19, 2026 verification date

What the authority record establishes

ISO lists the sixth edition of ISO 9001 in final production and says it will replace ISO 9001:2015 when published.

Not yet the published replacement at the July 19, 2026 verification date

The exact official title, issuing body, jurisdiction, version or application record, and linked source define the scope of this page. Readers should not transfer the authority's status to a commercial product or infer transaction-, patient-, system-, site-, or organization-specific applicability from this summary.

Why it matters to this market

Teams need edition-aware requirement mappings, controlled transition work, and historical evidence that does not silently relabel records created under the 2015 edition.

Affected operating stages

  • Standards Monitoring
  • Gap Analysis
  • Transition Planning
  • Document And Process Change
  • Training
  • Audit Planning

Capabilities to examine

Controlled Documents And Workforce Qualification

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for controlled documents and workforce qualification.

Audit Planning And Findings

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for audit planning and findings.

Change Control And Configuration Traceability

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for change control and configuration traceability.

Quality Risk Management

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for quality risk management.

Quality Cost, KPI, And Management Review

Ask how the system or service identifies the controlling source and version, applies customer-specific interpretation, handles exceptions, preserves human judgment, and retains evidence for quality cost, KPI, and management review.

Affected buyer audiences

  • quality-system owners
  • certification-program participants
  • auditors
  • QMS providers

Implementation questions

  • Which entities, products, populations, transactions, systems, sites, or jurisdictions are actually within scope?
  • What is binding, what is guidance, and what is a technical or consensus standard?
  • Which publication, adoption, effective, application, transition, and enforcement dates differ?
  • Who owns legal, clinical, quality, regulatory, policy, or operational interpretation?
  • How will a source revision affect open work and historical decisions?

Interpretation boundary

The publication does not treat the final draft as a published requirement or invent a universal certification transition deadline.