Breaking News: Key RoHS Exemptions Set for Major Changes, What This Means for You
Imagine you are a manufacturer of electronic equipment, and you have spent years ensuring that your products comply with the European Union has Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) directive. You have made the necessary changes to eliminate the...
Don't Let These 5 Form Design Mistakes Jeopardize Your QMS Automation!
If you are a quality management professional, you would agree that Quality Management System automation is a journey filled with opportunities, but it is not without its challenges, especially when it comes to form design. Yes, you heard that right! ...
Improving Safety Incident Management with Integrated Document and Audit Control
Are you tired of managing safety incidents the old-fashioned way? You know what I'm talking about: stacks of paper forms, scattered emails, and disconnected systems that make it nearly impossible to keep track of everything. Its time for a change, fo...
Sourcing with Integrity: A Complete Guide to Conflict Minerals Regulations
Did you ever wonder where the minerals in your favorite tech products, jewelry, and consumer goods come from? The answer might surprise you many minerals are sourced from conflict zones and used to fund violence and human rights abuses. That is where...
Unlocking Efficiency in the Medical Device Industry through Master Data Management
Master Data Management and Quality Management in the medical devices industry work together to ensure safer medical devices before it reaches to the customer. It becomes extremely important that you have the right tools and people to manage such crit...
Achieving Data Quality: 7 Metrics You Need to Track
Today, data drives the success of modern businesses. It powers everything from targeted advertising to personalized customer service. But with so much data at our disposal, it is more important than ever to ensure its quality. The lack of data qualit...
Difference Between Risk Management and Deviation Management!
Have you got what it takes to take control of your business risks and deviations? Risk and deviation management is crucial for any business that wants to operate efficiently and effectively. With our software, you can quickly identify and assess risk...
The Pitfalls of Blaming Individuals in Root Cause Analysis: How to Focus on Systems and Processes Instead
Whenever someone finds themselves in a situation where something went wrong, and their first instinct is to find someone to blame. Blaming individuals for problems can be a natural human response, but it can be a common mistake in root cause analysis...
Mastering Root Cause Analysis: A Review of the Best Investigation Tools
Welcome to the second series of problem or issue investigation processes. In this series, we all discuss the several different and best investigation tools that can be used to identify and resolve problems or issues in various settings, including bus...
Your Business Can’t Afford to Ignore CAPA Process – Learn Why Now!
Have you ever bought a product or used a service that didn't meet your expectations? Maybe it was a faulty device or a late delivery, or perhaps you received poor customer service. Whatever the case, it is frustrating to be let down by a company you ...
The Importance of the PDCA Cycle in Driving Continuous Improvement in Organizations
A continuous improvement mentality is a mindset in which an organization is always looking for ways to improve its processes, products, services, and overall operations. It is characterized by a focus on identifying and addressing the root causes of ...
The Difference between Proactive and Reactive Organizations – Which one is yours?
Hey business owners and leaders! Have you ever wondered whether your organization is proactive or reactive? In today's fast-paced world, businesses need to be constantly on their toes to stay ahead of the game. Unfortunately, its easy to get caught u...
Overcoming the Negative Reputation of CAPA in Organizations: A Guide to Effective Implementation
Today, we will discuss something that has a negative reputation in many organizations CAPA. Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) is a vital part of any quality management system, but it often gets a bad rap. Some employees see it as a burden, a w...
Key Benefits of a Salesforce-based Quality Management System
Organizations, nowadays, need for structured approach to quality, risk and compliance management. It can be achieved by implementing right tools, systems, and teams in place. Speaking of tools and systems, technology has undoubtedly led us to a point...
How to Use Quality Metrics to Change Quality Management Strategy and Processes for Good?
Quality management is the process of ensuring that products and services meet or exceed customer expectations. It involves identifying and addressing defects, setting quality standards, and continuously improving processes to ensure quality is consis...
Automating These Processes Can Reduce Cost of Poor Quality!
Automation can play a significant role in quality management by helping to ensure consistent, accurate, and efficient processes that leads to higher quality products and services for customers. Why has Automation of Quality Processes Become a Necessi...
Top 5 CAPA Management Software Systems in 2024
Companies in regulated industries must have a formal process for managing corrective and preventative actions (CAPAs). Identifying problems, analyzing root causes, implementing solutions, and verifying that problems have been resolved are all part of...
5 Top Nonconformance Management Systems To Consider in 2023!
Many things can go wrong in any phase of the pipeline or production, whether it is transportation to the end users or end users behaviors. Such gaps are essential to identify, as they can lead to nonconformances. What if I told you that your company ...
Keep the Game of Collaboration Strong to Manage Quality Efficiently
Each company could do better at quality management. Whatever the size of the company, improving collaboration skills and technology will likely improve quality management. Traditionally, workplace collaboration involved only in-person brainstorming a...
5 Businesses That Transformed Perspective of Change Management for Better
Efforts are being made daily to improve performance, increase profits, and enhance your competitive advantage within your organization. These efforts translate into a change initiative in process, design, and SOPs. It could be implementing technology...
Traceability in EQMS: Why It is One of The Critical Requirements?
Traceability is becoming increasingly important for companies in various industries. Despite some misconceptions, traceability should be part of every manufacturer process, whether food, automobiles, or aircraft. Undoubtedly, it provides significant ...
Ignoring these 7 Signs Can Get You FDA Warning Letter
A Warning Letter (or Form-483) of Inspectional Observations from the FDA is a nightmare for regulated businesses. Receiving a list of deficiencies can feel like a heavy blow to a quality assurance system in controlled food, agriculture, and pharmaceu...
Conflict Minerals Compliance: A Complete Guide
As defined by US legislation, a conflict mineral is a metal derived from one of four minerals: tantalum, tin, tungsten, or gold. Today, a small fraction of all tin, tantalum, tungsten, and gold metals are sourced from the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Regulatory Reporting of Adverse Events: Things You Should Know
Businesses must prioritize customer safety at all times. Even though adverse event data is valuable for improving quality systems and processes, it can be challenging without standardized reporting standards. However, Quality professionals can minimi...
Ace Your Audits Remotely with Cloud-Based Audit Management Solution
COVID-19 has changed the way we work for the rest of our lives. The possibility of remote work is available for an extended period to the entire staff in many organizations was never considered before the virus spread globally. Organizations are re-e...
Best Practices to Proactively Manage Workplace Incidents
Experiencing workplace incidents and its consequences is simply unpleasant. No one likes to face adverse events since they reflect that there is something wrong with the way we are handling things currently. This is where we need to be proactive. So,...
Maintaining and Managing Quality Policy: How can EQMS software help?
What is the Purpose of Quality Policy? Quality policies describe your company's intentions, goals, and guidelines in relation to quality. You must create one to define your company's policies that will benefit various stakeholders. Instead of just a ...
A Quick Look at Different Dimensions of Quality
To be successful, your business needs to maintain quality at all levels. Managing an organization is about quality, how good is the product, service, process, action, or decision, and how can it be improved? An organization's success depends heavily ...
A comparison of ISO 9001 and QMS
ISO and QMS: An Enterprises Perspective Businesses commonly standardize their processes. The standards in a particular field are highly distilled best practices developed by experts who understand the needs of their field. For example, a standard can...
Achieving the Quality Goals: How Six Sigma Works?
Whether an organization succeeds or fails largely depends on the quality of its products and services. In the long run, you will not be able to survive if you ignore an important aspect like quality. Six Sigma aims to eliminate defects in processes a...
