ISO 9001 does not describe best practices. It institutes them. Every product becomes compliant or defective. The territory of transgression appears at the exact moment the boundary is drawn.
An assembly that exceeds dimensional tolerances by 0.02% was not defective before that tolerance was set. It was different. Normalization transforms variation into defect.
The norm operates through retroactive exclusion. It traces a boundary in a continuum that needed none. The measure manufactures the deviation it discovers.
Doctrine
The exception is a manufactured product of the norm. Not its accident.
Vecteur ouvert
What happens when a norm disappears? Do former defects become neutral variations, or do they retain their exception status? Does the norm leave phantom traces in what was defined as regular?
