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Equipment calibration requirement within a ...

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We encountered an event where the measuring equipment used in the R&D (Reliability) Lab were not calibrated ...

Ashley N White Sep '22

Oct '22

@Ashley N White Usually in cases like this I'd expect to see a label of “Calibration Not Required” or some type of ...

Apr '23

@Ashley N White
I believe that audit is a system level activity (& not related to specific product) unless ...

Audit Metrics

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Hello Audit Division! I have been asked to create a metric for our supplier audits for next year. I am thinking of ...

Luz Tatiana Miranda Dec '22

Dec '22

Luz,
We audit our suppliers at work and our main goal is the same - audits completed. Some other areas we have been ...

Dec '22

@Luz Tatiana Miranda

We used to use “audits completed compared to audits planned“ and have since tried using “No ...

Dec '22

Good Morning.
Thanks for your message.
In our experiencie, we have learned that internal audits helps identified ...

Dec '22

@Luz Tatiana Miranda
Good morning, I love the ideas being generated here. I know some clients use a scoring system ...

Dec '22

@Susan Gorveatte Thank you very much, Susan!

Dec '22

@Jammie Graves Thanks a lot!

Dec '22

@Stephen McKenna Great points, thank you!

Dec '22

@Luis Castro Thanks!

Dec '22

@Susan Gorveatte

I love the sound of that Susan. Could you explain it a little further? What is OBS/OFI and how does ...

Dec '22

@Stephen McKenna : OBS Observations OFI Opportunity for Improvement - I use these acronyms to explain things that ...

Audit Training

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Thank you to the Audit Division for posting the recent webinar: Conducting MARVEL-ous Audits. Check it out. ...

Susan Gorveatte Mar '23

"Quality Auditing LLC" can anyone confirm this ...

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Hello - I am interested in working with a company called Quality Auditing LLC- address is in Minneapolis- after ...

Robin Dowsett Feb '23

Feb '23

Yes. We had an auditor associated with their organization come and audit us late last year for one of our clients. I ...

Feb '23

Hello Robin,
Looking at the company website, I see that they have a LinkedIn page, and the Grant P. is the company ...

Feb '23

@Robin Dowsett

I met many of the folks from Quality Auditing, LLC at the ASQ Audit Conference last October. They ...

Feb '23

@Emily Perushek Thank you! I appreciate you taking the time to message about this.

Feb '23

@William Miller Thanks Bill! all good news Thanks for taking the time to answer.

Feb '23

@Heather Wade Thank you Heather! Congratulations on publishing the new book! thank you for taking the time to ...

Feb '23

The main accreditation is through ANAB. I did a search for them and did NOT find them as a certification body. I would ...

ASQ Pass Rates by Exam (CQA)

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In preparing for the CQA exam, an interesting bit of information I came across was the Pass Rate for this exam. The ...

Maria Smith Feb '23

Feb '23

When I obtained my CQA, ASQ still permitted its member units to provide training and study preparation. I think ...

Feb '23

I obtained my ASQ certification last year 2022. I had hands on experience that greatly supplemented the handbook ...

Feb '23

@Maria Smith
I failed the first time because I did the self study method using the book and some BOK questions.

Feb '23

Great point
honestly, this exam is not easy, a good portion of questions are not in the handbook, there are a lot of ...

Feb '23

I wish ASQ would bring back training and test preparation to the member units. I believe the success rate will be ...

Feb '23

I passed in early 2022 and I took in an arm-load of the suggested references in with me. Another interesting data ...

Feb '23

I am currently preparing for the CMQ/OE it is a lot of material to cover. My preparation include going through the ...

Feb '23

Hello Chris,
To be honest, this is one of the easier exam that ASQ has, at least in my opinion. The reason I say that is, ...

Feb '23

@Maria Smith
I tried to post this once, but was unsuccessful. Hopefully second time is a charm. I passed the CQA exam ...

Feb '23

@Maria Smith
I certified in 2021 for CQA. I used a combination of CQI primer and answer handbook along with ASQ study ...

Authors for the Audit Report

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Are you active with ASQ Audit Division? Did you want to write an article for the Audit Report? This is the Audit ...

Susan Gorveatte Feb '23

AS9100 Lead Auditor

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Hi everyone, Does ASQ offer a lead auditor course for AS9100? I am looking to get my lead auditor certificate. ...

Jodi Gallagher Jan '23

Jan '23

I took an AS9100 Lead Auditor course in SAE. The online self-paced courses are affordable.

Jan '23

Great info Anastasis. The SAE training is not a certificate granting course correct, just the training portion?

IVDR Training - Lead Auditor

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Has anyone completed a good IVDR lead auditor training course? I'm comparing these from BSI and Oriel but am open to ...

Erik Aidukas Jan '23

Certified Quality Auditor

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Hello, there seems to be a discrepancy between the CQA 5th edition Ppk values for capability and the Certified CQA ...

Marie Lawton Dec '22

Hosting Regulatory Inspections for Brand owners (non ...

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Hello Dear Audit Division Community! Thanks in advance for your help ~ I am curious if anyone knows of an Industry ...

Luz Tatiana Miranda Dec '22