Managing Data and Analytics in the Modern Workplace. This article discusses how the use of advanced technologies can help you be more efficient in your work. Managing Data Data drives business performance, and it is often the difference between success and failure. The main challenge with managing data is finding effective ways to use that…
Handling of Incorrect Data During Auditing In our latest dilemma, find out what to do when a company appears to have supplied duplicate testing images in order to meet the delivery requirement. Dilemma A customer quality engineer is conducting a release inspection at a manufacturer of high-pressure ball valves. The valves are for a pipeline project in northern Alaska. The contract requires full radiographic non-destructive testing of the welds for the flange…
Moving Towards Digitization for Construction Sector: Ian Mills and Mike Buss speak to Alicia Dimas about how new technologies are changing the construction industry and helping quality managers to better perform their jobs. Digital technologies can generate value for the construction industry. The application of these new technologies can improve productivity, reduce risks and increase…
Criteria of Integrated Management Systems Audit: Sponsored article: Alan Grogan, CQP MCQI, shares his six-step model for managing the requirements of auditing integrated management systems. I don’t know about you, but when I have to manage an internal audit system I always have the same concerns: How do I stop losing auditors? How do I…
Towards Process Automation in Digital Era: Richard Seddon, Managing Partner at Process Management International (PMI), UK, explains why quality professionals need to embrace process automation tools in this digitally-advanced era. We all know that widespread process automation is upon us. However, no longer is automation the preserve of the big one-off IT project with defined…
Maintaining Quality Standards During The Covid 19: Youmna Abboud, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Associate at Zimmer Biomet, Middle East, explains why internal audits are required during the coronavirus pandemic. Businesses around the world have been disturbed and had to revise their yearly plans, due to the coronavirus pandemic. The healthcare industry, in particular, witnessed…
Internal Auditor Maintain Its Independence: Andy Nichols, CQP MCQI, Program Manager at Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center, US, explains how internal auditors can achieve the independence requirements of ISO 9001. One of the most frequently misunderstood and debated requirements of the ISO 9001:2015 requirements for Internal Audits (9.2.2) is the idea that auditors are ‘independent’ of…
Understanding ISO 9001 Risk Based Thinking: The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Accreditation Forum (IAF) have put together an Auditing Practices Group Guidance on: Risk Based Thinking. Read how ISO 9001 – Quality management can address risk planning in your organisation Risk has been always implicit and addressed in ISO 9001. Many…
Supply Chain Productivity Through Digitalization: It has been advocated that ‘supply chains compete, not individual firms’ for over 30 years, but this often fails to be the case in practice. Jan Godsell, Professor at the University of Warwick, asks why this is so difficult to achieve, and why advances are on the horizon Supply chain productivity…
