Improving Quality through Change Control: Implementing a QMS to Safeguard Quality during Changes
Centralize and structure change requests
Establish a change committee adapted to the context
Evaluate impacts on products and processes
Define action plans before and after the change has been implemented
Track evidence, justifications, and electronic signatures
Implement, monitor, and assess the effectiveness of actions
Identify risks at all stages of the process.
A quality audit is the systematic examination of an organization’s quality management system (QMS), which can be carried out by an internal or external quality auditor or an audit team. Audits are a vital part of an organization’s quality management process and is an essential element in the ISO quality system standard, ISO 9001.