Quality now has a certification register, controlled quality documents with approval and effective dates, controlled copies, and a record retention register.
Published documents for all users
Every user can read published quality documents and acknowledge them, without needing access to the quality registers.
Certification register with expiry alerts
Keep achieved and planned certificates with standard, certification body, scope, plants and files. Record surveillance audits, and the next audit date rolls forward. Expired status, colours and days to expiry are shown automatically. You get alerts 90 and 30 days before expiry and 30 days before a surveillance audit.
Certificate pack PDF per plant
Print a certificate pack for a plant. It has a cover page followed by the certificate PDFs, and expired certificates are left out.
Controlled quality documents with numbering and approval
Quality documents get numbers from their document type's pattern, and a number is never reused. Each revision is approved by the approvers set on the type. A revision with a future effective date waits as Approved and becomes current on that date. Quality revisions can no longer be submitted from the general policy screen. They must be submitted from Quality > Documents.
Master Document List and review tracking
Print the Master Document List, where drafts are marked 'Draft - not in use'. See which documents are due for review, and record a review with no change.
Controlled copies with automatic withdrawal
The issue list is proposed from the document's distribution list. Each issued copy prints with its copy number, revision and effective date. When a revision is superseded, its issued copies appear as withdrawal lines until you confirm them. Every other print is marked UNCONTROLLED COPY with the date and user, and attached PDFs get the same watermark.
Document types, record retention and quality roles
Set up document types with numbering pattern, approver steps, review period, retention and ISO 9001:2015 clauses. Keep a retention schedule and disposal register for hard-copy records. A batch cannot be disposed of before its retain-until date. Assign quality roles per plant and print the quality organisation. A new Document Controller role is available.