ISO 9000

ISO 9000 standards are meant to ensure that a product is consistently produced. It is suppose to ensure that you have good quality products. Marketing typically loves to say that they are ISO9000 certified to try to get more business.

Be sure to argue that your initial design development does not need to have quality ensured for prototypes, this is especially important if you want to try out new vendors or use an unconventional design.

iab is has a great company example.
The QA department can’t inspect into a product quality, New Product Development should always define what should be inspected in a quality check, they are the ones who knows what is important. The last thing you want is a costly inspection of a part taken out of context of the entire design.

I’d say do what you can to keep new designs away from any ISO 9000 until it is ready to be built. It will only add to your development costs.