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SS/5 - Acceptance sampling schemes

Sector: Governance & Resilience

Categories: Statistical methods. Application | Quality

Overview: Under the direction of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee, is responsible for nominating and briefing UK experts to attend meetings of ISO/TC69/SC5 and monitoring the work, collating public comment and voting on the documents that they produce. To shadow the work of ISO/TC 176/SC 3 for the development of ISO/TR 10017, in association with QS/1.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (4)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

PD ISO/TR 24962 Conformity assessment in acceptance sampling

Categories: Unclassified documents

Drafting begins : 2025-08-29
Drafting
NWIP for a TR on sampling based conformity assessment Conformity assessment in acceptance sampling

Categories: Information management | Standardization. General rules | Quality | Quality management and quality assurance | Certification. Conformity assessment

Proposal begins : 2023-09-04
Proposal
BS ISO 39510 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables -- Introduction to the ISO 3951 series of variables sampling standards

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Drafting begins : 2017-11-02
Drafting
BS ISO 2859-1 Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes —. Part 1: Sampling schemes indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Comment resolution begins : 2025-10-28
Comment resolution
Published (27)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

BS ISO 39511:2018 Sequential sampling plans for inspection by variables for percent nonconforming (known standard deviation)

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2018-05-25
Published standard
BS ISO 3951-6:2023 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables. Specification for single sampling plans for isolated lot inspection indexed by limiting quality (LQ)

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2023-12-11
Published standard
BS ISO 3951-4:2011, BS 6002-5:2011 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables. Procedures for assessment of declared quality levels

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2011-08-22
Published standard
BS ISO 3951-1:2022 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables. Part 1: Specification for single sampling plans indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection for a single quality characteristic and a single AQL

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2022-08-22
Published standard
BS ISO 28598-2:2017 Acceptance sampling procedures based on the allocation of priorities principle (APP). Coordinated single sampling plans for acceptance sampling by attributes

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2017-10-26
Published standard
BS ISO 28598-1:2017 Acceptance sampling procedures based on the allocation of priorities principle (APP). Guidelines for the APP approach

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2017-11-10
Published standard
BS ISO 28597:2017 Acceptance sampling procedures by attributes. Specified quality levels in nonconforming items per million

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2017-11-09
Published standard
BS ISO 28596:2022 Sampling procedures for inspection by attributes. Two-stage sampling plans for auditing and for inspection under prior information

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2022-10-27
Published standard
BS ISO 28594:2017 Combined accept-zero sampling systems and process control procedures for product acceptance

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2017-11-09
Published standard
BS ISO 28593:2017 Acceptance sampling procedures by attributes. Accept-zero sampling system based on credit principle for controlling outgoing quality

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Published standard begins : 2017-11-09
Published standard
Withdrawn (15)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.

BS ISO 8423:2008 Sequential sampling plans for inspection by variables for percent nonconforming (known standard deviation)

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2018-05-25
Withdrawn
BS ISO 8422:2006 Sequential sampling plans for inspection by attributes

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2007-09-17
Withdrawn
BS ISO 3951-2:2013 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables. General specification for single sampling plans indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection of independent quality characteristics

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2018-07-18
Withdrawn
BS ISO 3951-1:2013 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables. Specification for single sampling plans indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection for a single quality characteristic and a single AQL

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2018-06-22
Withdrawn
BS ISO 28801:2011, BS 6001-9:2011 Double sampling plans by attributes with minimal sample sizes, indexed by producer's risk quality (PRQ) and consumer's risk quality (CRQ)

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2017-11-21
Withdrawn
BS ISO 21247:2005 Combined accept-zero sampling systems and process control procedures for product acceptance

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2017-11-09
Withdrawn
BS ISO 14560:2004 Acceptance sampling procedures by attributes. Specified quality levels in nonconforming items per million

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2004-12-22
Withdrawn
BS ISO 13448-2:2004 Acceptance sampling procedures based on the allocation of priorities principles (APP). Coordinated single sampling plans for acceptance sampling by attributes

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2017-10-26
Withdrawn
BS ISO 13448-1:2005 Acceptance sampling procedures based on the allocation of priorities principle (APP). Guidelines for the APP approach

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2017-11-10
Withdrawn
BS 6002-2:2007 Sampling procedures for inspection by variables. General guide to single sampling plans indexed by acceptance quality limit (AQL) for lot-by-lot inspection of independent quality characteristics

Categories: Statistical methods. Application

Withdrawn begins : 2013-09-04
Withdrawn