TS ISO 10005

TS ISO 10005 is a quality management guideline that helps suppliers prepare, review, accept, and revise quality plans. It explains how planning for quality can be organised in practice for a product, project, process, or service, without turning the document into a prescriptive test standard for a specific industry.

What a quality plan is

A quality plan is a document that sets out the quality-related arrangements for a particular contract, project, product, or process. It typically defines what activities will be performed, who is responsible, and where verification or control points should occur. In general technical terms, quality plans translate a quality management system into day-to-day operational instructions for a specific situation.

The practical role of this guidance

This standard supports suppliers not only in drafting a quality plan, but also in reviewing it, obtaining acceptance where needed, and updating it when conditions change. That makes it useful when quality requirements must be aligned across design, production, procurement, inspection, and delivery activities. As a general quality-management concept, a quality plan helps bring risk, customer expectations, and process control together in one structured document.

• Provides guidance for preparing quality plans.
• Addresses review and acceptance of quality plans.
• Supports revision when circumstances change.
• Focuses on supplier-side quality planning.
• Relates to quality management and quality assurance practice.