MasterControl Inc. is the #1 Quality Management System (QMS) for Life Sciences.  As a top provider of cloud-based quality and compliance software for life sciences and other regulated industries, our mission is the same as that of our customers – to bring life-changing products to more people sooner.

Measuring and understanding the compliance of your products and your processes is key for any manufacturer. But how compliance does it fit into your daily operations?

Remote audits may have sounded unconventional at this time last year. But 2020 is shaping up to be a memorable year for all kinds of reasons. 

How is your compliance policy? Is it an all-consuming mission at your organization?

This spring have presented no shortage of hurdles. While many industries are facing new challenges, for those in manufacturing, this may mean continuing production despite supply chain disruptions, health and safety concerns, and economic impact.

The importance of auditing should not be overlooked. As longtime Quality columnist Jim Smith writes, “It’s rare that managers, or even most quality auditors, discuss how closely tied the findings of manufacturing audits are to the long-term ability of their companies to compete in this highly competitive market.”

Have you ever noticed how many manufacturing companies include the word “quality” in their taglines?

A fundamental shift is taking place in the way companies are approaching regulatory compliance. A lack of structured data is proving to be a substantial liability—as ill-prepared companies are learning the hard way—which is leading more organizations to move away from conventional document-centric methodologies and toward a data-centered model of compliance.

Anyone involved in medical device manufacturing knows that their industry is highly regulated. Almost every medical device manufacturer or pharmaceutical supplier uses materials testing systems in their quality control and research laboratories or outsources their testing to approved third-party laboratories. 

Nondestructive testing (NDT) is used in engineering industries to test equipment, components, and materials without causing any damage. With a reliance on quality assurance and rating systems for tools to be used for the correct tasks, adhering to industrial safety norms is a large factor behind the NDT market.