Enterprise Quality
What is quality assurance (QA) and how to apply it in your organization
Learn about the differences between Quality Assurance and Quality Control in our infographic, including their different focuses and objectives.
What is the importance of ISO 9001 and what is it for?
Companies are looking for recognition when they acquire ISO certifications, but is that all they need? Learn more about the most important reasons to become ISO certified.
A3 Method: Complete guide to solve your problems
Read this article and learn about the A3 method, how it works and the steps involved and start solving your company's problems.
How to describe a problem so that everyone understands it
An important first step in the problem solving process is knowing how to describe a problem so that everyone understands it and collaborates in solving it.
Top Management: What Is It and What Are Its Responsibilities?
The ISO 9001 standard is filled with references to the term “top management.” In addition to various clauses that cite its responsibilities, there is a specific item that outlines the expectations of its engagement with the critical aspects of the quality management system. This item, the fifth in the standard that talks about leadership, encompasses … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/top-management-and-its-responsibilities/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Top Management: What Is It and What Are Its Responsibilities?"</span></a>
Quality management plan: what it is, how to create it and its benefits
Discover the best practices to create successful Quality Control Plan for improving your company's strategy and ensure quality in your operation!
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) and Work Instruction (WI): what is the difference?
Read this article to learn more about the main differences between SOPs and WIs and get some tips on how to create effective standard documents.
Audit Reports: The Definitive Guide to Evaluation, Compliance, and Business Growth
Learn more about what an internal audit report is and how to prepare a high-impact report. Read this article now!
Behavior-Based Safety (BBS): How to Create a Safety Culture and Reduce Risks in Your Company
Read this article and learn more about Behavior Based Safety (BBS) and how to apply it in your company, improving your work safety management system.
The 5 Whys: what they are and how to apply them
Click here to learn more on how to apply the 5 Whys method to solve everyday problems with greater efficiency!
Quality audits: how to do it in 4 simple and effective steps
Audits are an important tool to help organizations grow. Learn about the 4 steps to successfully carry out quality audits.
What is the 5S Methodology and How to Apply it in Your Company
The 5S methodology is a technique for organizing the workspace to achieve greater efficiency and effectiveness. The method advocates identifying the most used items to separate them from the less important ones, classifying them in a way that optimizes productivity. The main objective of the 5S methodology is to keep the work environment clean, organized, … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/5s-program/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "What is the 5S Methodology and How to Apply it in Your Company"</span></a>
Continuous improvement: the secret to optimizing processes and reducing costs
Continuous improvement is a management philosophy where successive efforts are made to improve products, services, or processes. It requires management flexibility, as it mandates making changes whenever something isn’t working. Even when everything is operating perfectly, there is still room to learn from it and implement improvements in the next project. These small or large … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/continuous-improvement/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Continuous improvement: the secret to optimizing processes and reducing costs"</span></a>
ISO 9001: meaning, benefits, and how to implement it in your company
ISO 9001 is one of the many certifications from ISO, the International Organization for Standardization. It ensures that a company has achieved an international standard for quality management. This certification is part of a group of five standards, the ISO 9000 family. For example, ISO 9002 and 9003 were alternative models to 9001. The former … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/iso-9001/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "ISO 9001: meaning, benefits, and how to implement it in your company"</span></a>
Quality Week 2023: Competitive Potential in the Spotlight!
Learn more about World Quality Week 2023 and discover how to achieve your competitive potential through quality.
Document management and training for the pharmaceutical industry: an essential combination
Find out how the proper document and training management can optimize production and ensure compliance in the pharmaceutical industry.
What is Uncertainty in Measurement and Calibration
Understanding what uncertainty in measurement and calibration is and how it can affect your company's quality and productivity.
FMEA – What it is and how to implement it in your company
Learn what FMEA is, its types and how to use this risk management tool to improve quality and safety in your company.
SoftExpert Audit on mobile devices
SoftExpert Audit, now for smartphones and tablets! Come see the latest in SoftExpert Suite 2.1.5.
Turtle diagram: What is it, what are its benefits and how to elaborate
Have you ever heard of the Turtle Diagram? Read and learn more about this tool that assists companies in process management.
Quality policy: How to establish one and communicate it at your company
The ISO 9001:2015 standard has a very specific quality policy requirement. Item 5.2 of this standard sets forth mandates for what needs to be contained in this document, starting with structure, roles and responsibilities, in addition to defining how it should be communicated within an organization. It is important to underscore here that when I … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/how-to-establish-quality-policy/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Quality policy: How to establish one and communicate it at your company"</span></a>
Remote Internal Audits: a reality for today and after the pandemic
The current crisis that we are going through has required that all of society find solutions to continue their activities in this new reality that include social distancing, travel restrictions and other public safety measures. Quality audits are among the processes that, using the traditional on-site method, have become almost impossible to carry out. With … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/remote-internal-audits/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Remote Internal Audits: a reality for today and after the pandemic"</span></a>
Loss events – an important knowledge base
No company wants failures to occur in their operations, but even with all the preventive measures, failures occur from time to time and often have serious financial consequences. You have to know how to manage the failures and losses that occur. Routine administrative tasks, such as gathering loss data across different business areas, documenting exceptions, … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/loss-events/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Loss events – an important knowledge base"</span></a>
The top 5 quality conformance indicators
Every manager must visualize quality of conformance in every process, understanding connections between procedures and technologies. It can be difficult to group indicators and decide which are the best to achieve the real quality of conformance. When choosing the indicators (KPIs) to track, it’s better to focus on just a few with clear goals, rather … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/quality-conformance-indicators/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The top 5 quality conformance indicators"</span></a>
The Corrective Action Plan to avoid nonconformities
The concepts behind what an corrective action plan must encompass are always evolving. It focus on solving process and production challenges, pushing growth in technology and knowledge. Many organizational issues are growing along with this movement, and with this comes new nonconformities with more complex audits. This complexity can spread in the form of questions and … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/create-corrective-action-plan/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "The Corrective Action Plan to avoid nonconformities"</span></a>
The evolution of Business Action Plan using a Timeline
Manage all changes in your company's Business Action Plan, controlling what, who, when and why something change in Processes and Projects!
Product inspection: Ensure production line quality with SoftExpert Suite
Now it is easier than ever to perform product inspections with SoftExpert Suite. Read this article and learn how!
Version control in the context of Document Management
Read this article and learn how to improve document version control in your organization to eliminate errors, simplify tasks and improve process integrity!
Productivity and control: how Tecnosulfur improved its QMS
“Today we have a greater degree of reliability and availability of information with the use of SE Suite, which has proven to be very important in the maintenance of our Quality Management System.”
Assessing the quality maturity level of your organization
Although there is never a wrong time to improve the maturity of quality management, an opportune time is when planning for the coming year. Executives and quality management professionals who are affected by the quality of products and services should answer two questions: “how mature is my quality management program?” and “what do I need … <a href="https://blog-cms.softexpert.com:8080/en/assessing-the-quality-maturity-level-of-your-organization/" class="more-link">Continue reading<span class="screen-reader-text"> "Assessing the quality maturity level of your organization"</span></a>
5 reasons to get ISO 9001 certification
ISO 9001 certification allows many companies to reach the level of excellence. Learn more about the 5 reasons to get the best-known quality certification.
