From comments I've read regarding ISO9001 over the last few years, it's really just another of the many completely worthless schemes to make it appear that something useful is being achieved.
As others have said, it has absolutely nothing to do with the quality of products. You could be marketing the world's most unreliable, dangerous item, yet still be accredited to ISO 9001 so long as the operational procedures met the requirements.
The biggest mystery is why so many companies have fallen for this worthless garbage and gotten involved with it at all.
[This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 12-28-2004).]
