What is this standard about?
Manufacturing industries rely on sampling as a way to check that the quality of what’s being produced will be acceptable to the consumer. This standard supplies an approach to quality sampling. It describes attribute sampling schemes and plans and introduces essential operating procedures and the ways in which the systems were designed to be used.
Who is this standard for?
It will be used in the manufacturing sector to ensure quality control is in place. Typically, users will be:
- Quality assurance engineers
- Quality control project managers
- Quality supervisors.
Why should you use this standard?
It ensures that appropriate quality control is in place. In particular the standard will be valuable in the inspection of:
- end items
- components and raw materials
- operations
- materials in process
- supplies in storage
- maintenance operations
- data or records
- administrative procedures
What’s changed since the last update?
This standard replaces ISO 2859-10:2006 and BS 6001-0:2006.
It’s a minor revision with only editorial changes to ensure the consistency of the normative references and the alignment of this standard with other, current ISO documents.