QMS & EMS London

In all likelihood, your company has already encountered difficulties harmonizing quality management systems (QMS) with product life cycle management (PLM) systems. Synergies between engineering, manufacturing, supply chain management, and service will not materialize on their own—even in a closed-loop QMS. Part one of this three-part series describes how integrating the QMS and PLM can improve quality management processes throughout the enterprise.

When it comes to quality management, there is a set of tools often used for managing common business processes, regardless of industry. Chances are you're already familiar with how processes such as document control, audits, and corrective action work. The issue facing many companies is not how to manage these processes but how to streamline them to make them more efficient and effective in solving quality challenges. This article is the first in a six-part series that will discuss typical business challenges and the corresponding quality management solutions that can help alleviate them. Here we will focus on one of these solutions, corrective action, and the best way to use it to manage adverse events.

Representing the first international effort to formulate a quality management system standard for the aerospace industry, the two-year-old AS9100 is beginning to show its long-term value. The standard supplements ISO 9001 by addressing the additional expectations of the aerospace industry. Already, reports along this complicated manufacturing chain attest to–among other benefits–AS9100's contribution to more consistent verification methods and fewer verification audits.

Viewing the amount of wine produced around the world presents the fact that winemaking is big business. And with the development of new wineries increasing exponentially, winemaking is becoming more and more competitive. The increasing amount of wine drinkers tends to support the ever-rising number of wineries. As with any competitive business, the product produced must be of good quality in order to appeal to potential customers. All wineries recognize this fact and successful wineries have gone to great lengths to ensure that the product produced is of the best possible quality.