How to better manage the Quality Management system? Automation as a solution
Ricardo Montero Lozano
Passionate about sharing new ideas | Experienced business development manager | Process automation expert | Leader of specialist consultants team at Ricoh Spain
Companies and organizations of all kinds, increasingly decide to adopt quality standards and bet on continuous improvement, achieving it thanks to #automation. This allows them to make it faster and easier to govern the well-known ISO standards.?
The management of quality standards represents an important part in the administration of any company or organization, which is obtained by adopting the #ISO_9001 standard.
The ISO quality standard, specifically ISO 9001: 2015, prepared by the ISO - International Organization for Standardization , analyses and improves the elements that influence the organization to meet customer expectations. Its objective is to establish a series of guidelines with which companies can demonstrate that they comply with the general quality regulations.
#Automation of quality management
As mentioned at the beginning, many companies and organizations have decided to automate their processes in order to be more agile. This new form of management allows you to have all the documentation in the same space. In turn, easy and centralized access to all important information greatly facilitates strategic decision-making.
Automating the quality management system avoids complications in the future, making it possible to comply with ISO 9001: 2015 standards as a simple task within everyone's reach.
Automating the quality management system will avoid complications in the future, making it possible to comply with ISO 9001: 2015 standards as a simple task within everyone's reach.
There are many #reasons that lead to the decision to automate the quality management system, but the 5 most important would be the following:
1. Ensures compliance with ISO 9001
2. Saving time, money and resources
3. Reduce errors
4. Increase business opportunities
5. Strengthens commitment to the organization
Therefore, #quality management has thus become an essential part for a high percentage of companies around the world, without which their survival is incomprehensible.
Reasons that justify betting on quality:
- #Finance: poor quality, both in the production process and in the final process, means the loss of profits for the company.
- #Commercial: from the field of sales, ensuring good quality significantly improves the brand image. In addition, it ensures customer satisfaction, so that a long-term relationship of trust is established.
- #Technical: regarding technical reasons, good quality improves the technical performance of the products and the efficiency of the processes.
- #PublicRelationships: and, finally, it should be noted that it improves the external relations that the company maintains with certain audiences, such as public administrations, suppliers, etc.
Therefore, an ISO 9001 certification will allow companies to improve the #processes and the products and services that are generated.
To control the documents related to ISO 9001, this is where Ricoh Spain can help you, since it will allow you to establish a procedure that determines the action guidelines for the following tasks:
1. #Approval of documents
3. #Identification of the changes and the current #version of the documents
4. #Distribute current documentation so that it is accessible at points of use
5. #Keep documents legible and identifiable
6. #Control of external documents
7. #Control of obsolete documentation
If Quality is important in your company, you have ISO 9001 certification and you have problems managing all the documents involved in it, as well as controlling the processes of the Quality Management system, contact @Ricoh Spain and we will help you solve these problems with our process and #workflow #automation solutions.