ISO 9001 handbook ... Past tense such a quality manual?

The ISO 9001 handboek for example, in the cupboard of every department manager, known in the workplace as the 'ISO book'. In fact, it was a quality manual, safety manual, environmental manual, etc.   or a combination of these. Keeping the 'handbook' up to date was a challenge. The new versions were in the bin. Sign off that you had received (and read?) them. Then replace all procedures, instructions one by one.
Maybe you remembered it...
 

And then there was ISO 9001:2015 2026 (click here for more info)

Since ISO 9001:2015 it is: 'documented information' It is no longer the 'preparation of a manual', the (6) mandatory documents ... and so on.

Many advisors have given their new insights and examples about this:

• ISO 9001:2015: Not a handbook, but documented information
• Switching to the renewed norm ISO9001:2015
• A simple Quality Manual and no Bureaucracy
• ISO 9001:2015 means saying goodbye to quality manual
• The quality manual, mandatory procedures and registrations
• The impact of deregulation of the quality system on ISO 9001:2015

They are of course focused on the content and (often) ignore the tooling.

Beyond ISO 9001:2015 2026

On the IT side, developments have perhaps gone even faster: social quality systems, straight from the cloud. Quite different from the collection of process descriptions, procedures, instructions and forms. Printed and bundled in the bookin the cupboard of every department manager.... A digital (quality) management system can do so much more, apart from the various 'ISO standards'. (Just for fun, put this Proware system online in 60 seconds as a test.... and let me know if sample documentation is useful.)

An overview of 'standard' functionalities of a digital management system:

For those who are still 'fighting' with loose documents, have a cluttered version management or have to go to the department manager's cupboard for the handbook ....  
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The mandatory 6 procedures in your handbook from the old ISO9001:2008 have disappeared, but what remains is the 'documented information'. Documentation is therefore still necessary within quality management in the following areas:

And watch the video below to see how all this can be fitted into a management system platform. You are immediately 'up-to-date' !