The 2026 rebuild is underway. Buy now and every family reaches you free as it releases.
ISO 9001:2026 published in September 2026. Leadership and Commitment is complete and built to it. The remaining families are the current ISO 9001:2015 editions — the edition your certificate is still issued against — and are being rebuilt in sequence. Each one arrives in your account free as it releases. Nothing for you to do.
Three files per family, not one
The procedure, its transition edition, and its QuickStart.
The transition edition marks every point where the 2026 edition changed what is required, so a system certified to 2015 knows exactly what to update and what to leave alone. The QuickStart is an implementation route — the decisions the procedure asks you to make, grouped into five stages, in the order that lets each one build on the last, with the section where each is explained. Sold separately the QuickStarts are $49 each. Every family in this package includes its own, delivered with the family as it releases.
What is in the package
The full ISO 9001 procedure library in editable Microsoft Word, written as filled-in worked examples rather than blank outlines. Every bracketed placeholder is a decision the standard leaves to you, and an MSI note at each one records what tends to happen in practice.
- Management Review & Leadership
- Document & Records Control
- Purchasing & Supplier Control
- Control of Monitoring & Measuring Equipment
- Risk & Opportunity Management
- Design & Development
- Production & Operational Control
- Human Resource Management
- Compliance
- Further procedures added during the founding period, delivered free as each releases
Plus the
QMS 9001 Launch Mastery course — the method for implementing the set, not just the documents.
Why a set rather than nine separate procedures
Every family is written to one architecture, so the set interlocks. A competence decision made in Human Resource Management is the same decision the management review reports on. A supplier evaluation in Purchasing feeds the same indicator set. Records are designed as a byproduct of doing the work rather than as a separate chore, and the cross-references between procedures actually resolve.
Bought individually, nine procedures from nine sources agree on nothing. That is the real cost a template set removes.
What the 2026 edition changed
01 · Retained became available
“Shall retain” does not appear in ISO 9001:2026. Records are available as documented information. These are different tests. Retention asks whether a record still exists and was kept long enough. Availability asks whether someone here produces it today. A record in a departed administrator’s account, on a platform nobody else opens, satisfies the first and fails the second.
02 · Leadership grew from ten obligations to twelve
Clause 5.1.1 adds promoting quality culture and ethical behavior, which has no equivalent in the 2015 edition, and separates opportunity-based thinking from risk-based thinking. The whole list is relettered.
03 · Understood moved rather than vanished
Clause 5.3 no longer requires responsibilities to be understood — only assigned and communicated. Clause 5.2.2 now requires the quality policy to be implemented, understood and applied. Read as a relaxation, it is a trap.
Each rebuilt family carries its own transition edition covering the changes that affect it.
Who it’s for
Quality managers, operations leaders and consultants at ISO 9001 certified or certifying organizations — whether you hold a 2015 certificate and are planning the move, or are documenting to 2026 from the start. Particularly useful where procedures were inherited from different sources and no longer agree with each other.
Not sure where your system sits? The
free Leadership and Commitment Maturity Check scores nine elements in about ten minutes, and your score appears without entering anything.
Questions
Some families are still the 2015 edition. Am I buying something out of date?
No, and this is the reason to buy now rather than later. ISO 9001:2015 is the edition your certificate is issued against until your certification body moves you across, so the current files are the ones you can use today. Every family is being rebuilt to ISO 9001:2026 in sequence, and each rebuild reaches your account free. Buying today costs the same as buying when the rebuild finishes, and you get the use of the documents in the meantime.
What is the QuickStart?
An eight-page implementation route through a procedure. It lists the decisions the procedure asks you to make, grouped into five stages — name the people, set the boundaries, set direction, set the operating rhythm, set the records — in the order that lets each one build on the last, with the section where each is explained. It is a route through the procedure, not a replacement for it. Sold separately at $49; included here with every family.
What is the transition edition?
The same procedure with a marker at every point the 2026 edition changed what is required, and a front sheet covering the changes that carry the most work. If you are certified to 2015 and moving across, it tells you what to change in your own system.
Is this a template or a finished procedure?
Both, deliberately. Each is written as a filled-in worked example so you see what an element looks like when done properly, with bracketed placeholders wherever a value is genuinely yours to set — frequencies, roles, thresholds, systems, retention periods.
What format is it?
Editable Microsoft Word (.docx), with process interaction maps supplied as editable SVG where a family includes one. The license permits the buying organization to use the set across its own sites and issue it to employees, contractors and auditors, and permits consultants to adapt it for engagements they deliver.
Will this pass an audit?
A procedure does not pass an audit; an organization does. What this gives you is a set that addresses the requirements of the clauses it covers, with named owners and named records, describing processes people actually follow. Unfilled placeholders are unmet requirements, so fill them.
Can you help us implement it?
Yes. Call MSI at
760-434-9141 to schedule a planning session.
