Quality audit management

Quality audit management involves systematically monitoring and assessing quality processes to ensure compliance with quality and industry standards. It includes planning, executing and documenting audits, identifying findings and initiating actions to enhance overall quality performance.

What is quality audit management?

Quality audit management is a systematic approach to evaluating and improving an organization's core processes. It involves planning, conducting and documenting audits to ensure that quality and industry standards are met and maintained. This process helps manufacturers identify areas of non-compliance and implement specific actions to enhance overall quality.

By regularly assessing quality processes, manufacturers can meet requirements, thereby maintaining high levels of product quality.

Additionally, quality audit management supports various types of audits, including internal, external and supplier audits. It leverages checklists and rating rules to streamline the audit process, reducing the effort required for documentation and archiving.

This approach not only supports consistent evaluations but also provides valuable insights into findings through detailed audit reports and analyses. Audit and assessment help organizations monitor the effectiveness of their quality management systems and drive continuous improvement initiatives.

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A quality audit management team working on the quality assessment of their products.

Benefits of quality audit management

Quality audit management offers numerous advantages that help organizations maintain high standards and drive continuous improvement.

Streamline audit processes

Reduce the time and effort required for documenting and archiving data, allowing your team to focus on more strategic quality initiatives and improving overall operational efficiency.

Manage quality findings

Identify findings and areas for improvement early by systematically evaluating processes, enabling timely corrective actions and prevent minor issues from escalating into major problems.

Improve product quality

Enhance product quality through regular, detailed audits and assessments that provide insights into core processes and measure the effectiveness of your quality management systems.

Streamline quality audits for continuous improvement

Quality audit management provides powerful tools to implement a simple, clear audit and assessment management process while supporting in regulatory compliance.

Support multiple audit types
Implement external and internal audits in the fields of quality and environmental management. This approach supports multiple audit levels for internal and external systems, such as certification or compliance auditing, supplier audits, project or process audits or environmental programs.

Boost audit processes
Utilize checklist and rating rules to significantly reduce efforts. Audit checklists are tools to systematically evaluate various aspects of an organization, process, project or system. They serve as a guide for auditors to maintain consistency and thoroughness in their examination. Set general evaluation criteria or individual standards with an automatic grading system, and create evaluations based on audit results.

Adhere to regulatory standards
Plan and perform audits in compliance with specified standards. Manage multiple audit types, standards and methods based on the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 19011:2018 guidelines for auditing management systems or other guidelines such as those from the German Automotive Industry Association (VDA), the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) 16949:2016 and others.

Storing data and viewing dashboards
Build dashboards with various chart types for quality actions from the audit. The relevant information includes status, due dates, quality action context, responsible person, owner, targeted product, related projects and more. For managers who only want an overview, perform an interactive drill-down with the dashboard to better understand the audit’s current state.

Create audit analysis and reports
An audit process contains several steps with relevant attachments. Instead of traversing through each step and checking documents and contents, generate a standard audit report with all relevant information to be shared with all main stakeholders.