Quality Management System

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Quality Management System (QMS)

A quality management system is a set of interrelated or interacting elements that organizations use to direct and control how quality policies are implemented and quality objectives are achieved.

A process-based QMS uses a process approach to manage and control how its quality policy is implemented and quality objectives are achieved. A process-based QMS is a network of many interrelated and interconnected processes (elements).

Each process uses resources to transform inputs into outputs. Since the output of one process becomes the input of another process, processes interact and are interrelated by means of such input-output relationships. These process interactions create a single process-based QMS.

(1) Quality Management System - (aka QMS) Any system or group of systems intended to control and manage Quality_assurance activities in a company or organization.

(2) ISO 9000:2005

" 3.2.2

quality management system

management system (3.2.2) to direct and control an organization (3.3.1) with regard to quality (3.1.1)"

See also

Implementing a Quality Management System

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