the promotion and awareness of regulatory requirements as a management responsibility.Additionally, the ISO 9001 requirements regarding customer satisfaction are absent from the medical device standard. A principal difference, however, is that ISO 9001 requires the organization to demonstrate continual improvement, whereas ISO 13485 requires only that the certified organization demonstrate the quality system is effectively implemented and maintained. While it remains a stand-alone document, ISO 13485 is generally harmonized with ISO 9001. Though it is tailored to the industry's quality system expectations and regulatory requirements, an organization does not need to be actively manufacturing medical devices or their components to seek certification to this standard, in contrast to the automotive sector's ISO/TS 16949, where only firms with an active request for quotation, or on the bid list, of an International Automotive Task Force supply chain manufacturer can seek registration.
