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Quality Management

17.06.26

Quality Assurance Actions: How Companies Ensure Long-Term Product Quality

Quality assurance actions help companies identify defects at an early stage, reduce scrap, and ensure consistently high product quality. Especially in manufacturing companies, structured quality assurance actions are essential to avoid complaints, production downtime, and high quality-related costs. … Read more

Quality Management

20.05.26

Quality Management vs. Quality Assurance – Explained Simply

Managing and ensuring quality—both sound important. And they are. But what exactly is the difference between these two areas of responsibility, and how do they relate to one another? The terms “quality management” and “quality assurance” are often treated as interchangeable and used synonymously. However,… Read more

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Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

08.12.25

Integrated QM Software: Clarity Instead of a Patchwork of Tools

Today, quality is much more than just fulfilling obligations: it determines the success and market opportunities of companies. In an age of fragile supply chains and increasingly complex requirements imposed by laws, standards and demanding customers, expectations are rising not only for products, but also… Read more

Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

30.08.23

ISO 9001: Why the Revision is Coming Now (After All)

ISO 9001 is being revised – this has been announced by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Eight years have passed since the 2015 revision and about two years since the decision against a new version after five years. Now the responsible committee within ISO has decided to update the… Read more

A person is measuring an object as part of a production inspection

Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

21.07.23

VDA Volume 5 – Standard Work for Measuring and Inspecting

In order to avoid wrong decisions with far-reaching consequences when inspecting industrially manufactured parts, the measuring and inspection equipment used must be demonstrably suitable for the intended purpose. ISO 9001 already stipulates that organizations "shall determine and provide the resources… Read more

An employee holding a tablet PC in a production company

Quality Management

Manuel Klötzer

24.05.23

Excel – the Allrounder for Quality Management?

Whether it is employee management, resource planning or indeed quality management: Wherever large amounts of data are collected, spreadsheet applications such as Excel are usually not far behind. However, what often appears to be the easiest way is not always the most reliable or efficient solution –… Read more