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The Ultimate Quality Management Glossary
The perfect go-to guide for every quality professional - find a comprehensive mix of 150 quality management basic definitions, as well as graphics depicting some key visual terms. Great eBook for the new quality manager, or to utilize in new employee training!
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Getting Management Buy In: Selling Quality to Management
Many quality management professionals describe their #1 problem as getting management buy-in to new quality management initiatives. So if you are in a new quality position or desperately need processes to change within your organization, how can you get management to sign off and support your new ideas?
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Key Strategies to Succeed with Your Next FDA Inspection
It is essential that all quality organization team members with potential exposure to the FDA understand how to interact with the FDA while they are on site conducting an inspection. We have compiled several document control resources related to hosting the FDA, and this whitepaper provides great generic guidance and reference for any industry.
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The 2012 Quality Management Handbook
Start the year fresh with the basics of quality with the 2012 Quality Management Handbook! This quality management systems handbook is perfect for new or experienced quality assurance management professionals seeking to enhance their quality management strategies or refresh their quality knowledge.
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Developments and Trends for Warranty Management Systems
Commissioned corporate report which compilates international comparative data on the theme of warranty management. The study highlights vulnerabilities in the communication between suppliers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), illustrates the current situation between OEMs and suppliers, and introduces solution approaches for the implementation of a comprehensive warranty and recourse management system.
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Simplifying Audits and Compliance
Today, change is being forced upon people like never before – specifically in sustainability. Sustainable businesses produce less waste, and less waste means less costs for companies. In a struggling economy, every chance for cost-cutting must be seriously considered - such as employing an environmental management system.
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The Business Value of a Good QMS
You how important quality is to the life of your organization. It’s your responsibility as a quality professional to assure quality in the goods and services provided by your company, and act as an advocate for quality to upper management. This isn’t always easy: convincing C-Level executives of the value of quality can be daunting, and this whitepaper will show you where to start.
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Quality and Sustainability: Working Together to Succeed In an Unknown Future
Buzz words like "Sustainability" and "Green" are being thrown around increasingly in the business space - but what do these terms really mean, and how do they apply to quality and compliance? This comprehensive whitepaper deep-dives into what sustainability means specifically to quality managers, and how this might apply to getting "Green" company initiatives off the ground.
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Twelve Step Checklist for Effective ERM
Managing risk is no longer a vague and tertiary activity – in this increasingly standards-driven business environment, it is a vital part of an organization’s GRC program. Today’s forward-looking managers understand the importance of integrating effective risk management processes across the enterprise to ensure that their company’s financial and material assets are protected.
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"Closed Loop Quality Management: Creating Visibility and Reducing Risk across the Value Chain"
Closed loop quality management continues to be a source of competitive advantage for many best-in-class manufacturers but is often misunderstood by many other organizations. In this extensive research report co-sponsored by IBS America, this download deep-dives the number of workflows involved with design-make-deliver processes.
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"Build vs. Buy: Why Sharepoint Doesn't Meet Compliance and Quality Demands"
Although SharePoint provides features that you can use to build out your own rudimentary document management system, it may not be the best system to utilize for document control.
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"You're In Charge of Quality...Now What?"
Being placed in charge of quality at a new company, or just starting out in the quality field can be daunting. Understanding the quality parameters of what the company produces and how it is produced is now up to you, which can also be overwhelming. So, where do you start?
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"Three Key Strategies to Effective QMS"
Empowering quality functions helps organizations achieve compliance with regulations - standards like ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 emphasize company-wide commitment to quality. Some key strategies for creating a “Culture of Compliance” are outlined in this whitepaper.
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"7 Steps to Effective CAPA"
When manufacturers capitalize on CAPA processes, they see vast improvements in process performance. Your company can avoid regulatory sanctions and reap the benefits of a streamlined CAPA system by implementing these 7 key strategies.
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"How to Build and Maintain a Culture of Compliance"
Compliance is an integral part of the day-to-day operations of an organization. This report provides a concise and clear framework for building and enabling the compliance management culture and processes. Learn what a culture of compliance is and its main components.
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