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It takes the same amount of time and effort to create a good quality manual as it does a bad one. Oftentimes, far less... In this article, we will discuss how to establish, operate and maintain a good one: Introduction (what is a QM, and what should include) Common mistakes in establishing a QM, and how to avoid them Pro...

Whether you are freshly minted into the QMS position or you are a founder of a Startup, or a product manager with a new project... your strategy requires QMS oversight. QMS Joe will guide you with handy tips & tricks to streamline your way to compliance. Bolt-on Quality Management Apps put the cart before the horse The mistake...

Surprisingly, this is a real and topical question. At every MedDev or MedTech oriented exhibition this is the off-stage topic, actually more like the main grippe session. The 2016 ISO version requires a lot more emphasis on risk management and embedding risk management into the quality system processes. But really there are two issues in play...

  A checklist on where to start, and what to do first Whether you are freshly minted into the QMS position or you are a founder of a Medical Device Startup or a product manager with a new project, you’re reading this because your strategy requires QMS oversight and your first question is likely “where to start”...

  So, what documentation hierarchy should we adopt? It turns out that this question is a classic for a reason. People have been asking it for many years, and there is more than a little confusion on the answer. The Quality Manual requires many references to the applied company and the workflow processes. Synchronously, most quality management related...

Whether you are freshly minted into the QMS position or you are a founder of a Startup or a product manager with a new project… your strategy requires QMS oversight. QMS Joe is here to guide you through the plethora of information and support you with handy tips & tricks to streamline your way to...

Whether you are freshly minted into the QMS position or you are a founder of a Startup or a product manager with a new project, you’re reading this because your strategy requires QMS oversight and your first question is likely "Where to Start” and “What to Do” We could squeeze in 5 main points the initial...

Vague wording used in requirement documents Whether you are freshly minted into the QMS position or you are a founder of a Startup or a product manager with a new project… your strategy requires QMS oversight. QMS Joe is here to guide you through the plethora of information and support you with handy tips & tricks...

Be careful what you use when building up your QMS system! The expanding Internet means more: more data, more collaboration, and more complex systems of interactions. You can find hundreds of both expensive and free templates for ISO 13485, offered by various consultants, companies and experts. But even if the ISO compliance is guaranteed on some...

  The newbie QMS Managers Conundrum – 5 things to identify the right Expert? As a newly minted QMS manager in a medical device startup, I turned to the internet for what to do. Soon I had to realize that today everybody is an internet certified QMS expert. There was information galore, in fact so much information...

ISO’s standards are created to guide companies in dealing with some of the most demanding challenges of modern business – Quality & Customers. At its core, the ISO system is underpinned by the pursuit of recognizable quality that ties business goals and customer needs. The aim is to make business operations as efficient as possible...

“Individuals play the game, but teams win championships” Bill Parcells As in sport, the same rules apply to business. Collaboration is the glue that binds teams. Collaboration is different people executing together on the same issues, cooperatively whether communicating through Chat, Voice, Video or email. But when the business involves regulatory and ISO compliance, the collaboration also...

When digging deeper into a part where ISO 13485:2016 defines roles,  we can get a headache of how to define QMS management. It might be tricky to come to define Is it a job or is it a role in an organization? A QMS manager is a one-person Job with a very critical role, so we...

Software as an industry is unique in that not only can it be a product it can also be a service. Moreover, it is its own means of production;  Increasingly software can be found in all kinds of products, products that are ever more built to ISO standards, a.k.a. quality standards. And where quality and ISO...

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