What is an Internal Auditor?
Planning to perform an internal audit? Here’s what you need to know before assigning someone to the task.Internal Auditor Job Description An internal auditor, related to quality management systems, evaluates an organization’s operational activities to ensure...
What Is ISO 14001?
Ledge can help you implement or improve your EMS to meet the requirements of ISO 14001.What Is the ISO 14001 Standard? ISO 14001 is a voluntary standard that establishes requirements for an environmental management system (EMS). The current standard, ISO 14001:2015,...
What is a Quality Manual and Do You Really Need One?
Maintaining ISO quality standards is critical for businesses looking to meet customer requirements and for competitive advantages with sales and quality. Many companies choose to implement a quality management system (QMS) in order to meet these standards. These...
Threatening Storms of Export Compliance Program Violations for ITAR and EAR
An ITAR/Export Compliance Program is a set of procedures that help an organization operate their export activities in accordance with the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). Although an ITAR/export compliance...
Preventive Maintenance Program Pitfalls
Preventive Maintenance Programs, or PMPs are initiatives meant to find problems before they occur, thus furthering efficiency and profits within the company. However, when not designed or managed correctly, PMPs can actually facilitate additional problems, completely...
How Companies Can Make Their Nonconformance Data Useful
Nonconformance is an unexpected event that occurs in the manufacturing process that deviates from the set standards or requirements. In most cases, these are problems that we unanticipated to arise along the way, derailing your entire plan. Entrepreneurs understand...
Engineering Change Order Risks
So you’ve got a new customer and they are sending some work your direction from the previous vendor. You make the parts to print, do the first article inspection or PPAP and its perfect. However, the customer rejects that parts because they do not fit! The previous...
Going Beyond the ISO Certification
While an ISO certification is important for your business, implementing the strategies that you need to take your company to the next level can be quite difficult. Just like any business venture, the planning process is not as hard as the implementation phase. Most...
The Juran Trilogy
Dr. Joseph Juran left us with many important fundamental methods and tools during his years as one of the leading experts on Quality Management. He emphasized that we must balance the attention we give to the importance of the tools we use, in order to manage for...
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