INDUSTRY INSIGHTS

Industry Insights is a content services blog provided by Qualified Specialists, International that brings you the latest information, opinions, tips, and current events related to manufacturing, certification, regulatory compliance, and quality management.

What Makes an Audit Ineffective? Reason 3: Auditor Competence

Welcome back to the blog series on 'What Makes an Audit Ineffective?' In case you missed it, be sure to check out the previous posts where we discussed Required Documents and Records and Objective Evidence.Auditing Basics: Auditor CompetenceLet’s dive into the eight...

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What Makes an Audit Ineffective? Reason 2: Objective Evidence

Welcome back to the blog series on 'What Makes an Audit Ineffective?' In case you missed it, be sure to check out the previous post where we discussed Required Documents and Records.Auditing Basics: Objective EvidenceAnother reason that audits are ineffective is due...

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What Makes an Audit Ineffective? Reason 1: Required Documents and Records

Audits are a common practice in business, but they’re often ineffective at identifying and addressing actual compliance-related issues. The focus of quality audits is often based upon conformity to a predeveloped quality management system (QMS) checklist rather than identifying compliance with product, technical, regulatory, customer and/or industry standards.

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Tips & Tricks of the Trade

Ever wonder where people build their “tool bag” from?  Find out where some of Bud Weightman’s ideals and practices have come from in the newest article from Exemplar Global, Tips & Tricks of the Trade.

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Lead Auditor Training

QSI’s Lead Auditor course is geared to help you gain an understanding of how to audit a quality management system and enhance your knowledge and skills through an interactive and practical approach to auditing. QSI’s course offers a hands-on approach that enables you...

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API Spec Q2 Training

API Spec. Q2 was developed to address quality management systems for service supply organizations for the upstream petroleum and natural gas industries. This training course frames the management system requirements in a managerial and business perspective, will...

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API Spec Q1 Training

The landscape of our changing work environment is facilitating the need to improve the way the industry approaches the management of quality. The API Spec. Q1 Course frames the management system requirements in a managerial and business prospective and will provide...

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Technical Integrity in Auditing

View this post as a presentation What is Technical Integrity? Technical integrity is the confidence that products and services meet Design and Specified Requirements, including their specified lifecycle. What are design & specified requirements? Internal Customer...

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The Auditor Online

Serving as Exemplar Global's longest-term certified auditor, Bud Weightman recently sat down with Mike Richman of Exemplar Global to discuss how to spot great auditors, ways in which to have productive conversations with auditees, and the value of integrated audits....

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