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Risk-Based Internal Audit Programs for Regulated Manufacturers: One Framework Across ISO 13485, AS9100, IATF 16949, ISO 22000, and GMP
Picture a quality director who oversees three plants in one manufacturing group. One plant molds housings for infusion pumps under ISO 13485. A second stamps brackets for an automotive Tier 1 supplier under IATF 16949. The third machines flight-critical fittings under AS9100. Each plant runs its own internal audit schedule, built years ago from a […]
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FMEA and Risk-Based Maintenance: Why Equipment Failure Is a Quality Problem Before It’s a Maintenance Problem
A stamping press starts producing parts with a dimensional drift too small to trip an in-process alarm but large enough to accumulate into a nonconformance three shifts later. The maintenance log shows nothing unusual – the press is running, it isn’t down, and no one has scheduled an intervention for equipment that hasn’t failed yet. […]
