Quality in the Era of ESG and Compliance: How QMS Systems Support Sustainability and Regulation

The growing importance of ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) and increasingly stringent regulatory requirements pose new challenges for businesses. Organizations must not only ensure the high quality of their products and services, but also demonstrate compliance with environmental, social, and legal standards.

From Paper to Pixels: Transforming Quality Control with AI Visual Inspection

Go from paper to AI in quality control! With icmInspector QMS, you'll structure data and photos, preparing your company for the future of intelligent visual inspection.

One Standard, One Goal: How icmInspector QMS Synchronizes Quality Across Your Supply Chain

Modern supply chains are complex, interconnected networks where one company's product becomes the next one's critical raw material. In such an ecosystem, quality is not an individual matter but a shared responsibility.

CAPA: The Foundation of Continuous Improvement in Quality Management

In the dynamically changing business environment, quality management has become a key element of any organization's success. The central point of an effective quality management system is the CAPA process, which stands for Corrective Actions and Preventive Actions. Understanding and effectively implementing CAPA is essential to achieving continuous improvement and maintaining the high quality of products and services.

Paper in Quality Control is a Thing of the Past: Time for a Digital Revolution!

In the era of Industry 4.0, where data and automation drive development, many companies still rely on outdated, paper-based quality management systems. This not only acts as a brake on efficiency but also provides a clear path to costly errors and a loss of competitiveness. The time has come for paper binders and endless stacks of documents to become a thing of the past, making way for modern, digital solutions. Statistics and analyses leave no doubt—digitalization is a necessity.

The Growing Importance of Low-Code in Quality Management: Statistics and Forecasts

Low-code is an approach to software development that allows users without specialized programming knowledge to quickly build and modify applications using intuitive visual tools and pre-built components. In practice, this means the ability to rapidly adapt systems to changing business needs without engaging IT teams.

HACCP in the Food Industry - Reporting Plan - 5/5 - Current Reports

HACCP certification imposes a series of reporting requirements on food producers regarding the actions they undertake. As specialists in the digitalization of quality control processes, we have decided to compile the scope of reporting and its frequency into a coherent and synthetic summary. Each of the reports has been arranged according to a uniform scheme, defining its frequency, name, scope, and type of production for its application. In this chapter, we present the current reports.

HACCP in the food industry – reporting plan – 4/5 – quarterly reports

HACCP certification imposes a number of reporting requirements on food manufacturers. As specialists in digitising quality control processes, we decided to compile the scope of reporting and its frequency into a coherent overview. Each report is arranged according to a uniform scheme specifying its frequency, name, scope and type of production where it is applied. In this section we present the quarterly reports.

HACCP in the food industry - reporting plan - 3/5 - monthly reports

HACCP certification imposes a number of requirements on food producers regarding the reporting of their activities. As specialists in the digitalization of quality control processes, we decided to compile the reporting scopes and their cyclicality into a coherent, synthetic summary. We organized each report according to a uniform format, specifying its frequency, name, scope, and type of production for its application. In this section, we present monthly reports.

HACCP in the Food Industry – Reporting Plan – 2/5 – Weekly Reports

HACCP certification imposes a number of reporting requirements on food producers for the activities they perform. As specialists in the digitalization of quality control processes, we decided to collect the reporting scopes and their frequency in a cohesive summary. We structured each report according to a uniform scheme, specifying its frequency, name, scope and type of production for its application.

HACCP in the Food Industry – Reporting Plan – 1/5 – Daily Reports

HACCP certification imposes a number of reporting requirements on food producers for the activities they perform. As specialists in the digitalization of quality control processes, we decided to collect the reporting scopes and their frequency in a cohesive summary. Each report is structured according to a uniform scheme, specifying its frequency, name, scope and type of production for its application. We start with daily reports.

Digitizing Quality Control in the Food Industry - How to Meet HACCP Requirements 70% Faster

In the food industry, ensuring product quality and safety is an absolute priority. HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) standards are the foundation of nearly every company's operations, but they often involve extensive documentation, time-consuming procedures, and the risk of errors.

FAQ - 50 questions and answers...

We've decided to gather the most frequently asked questions about the icmInspector QMS system, along with their answers, into one place. We'll update this list over time as new topics emerge that haven't been covered previously.

Mistakes happen, but you can avoid these 46 mistakes only with icmInspector QMS

Modern quality management systems require precise integration of processes, technologies, and human resources. Despite implementing standards such as ISO 9001 and HACCP, organizations often encounter repetitive errors resulting from the limitations of manual methods, lack of automation, and fragmented data analysis. The icmInspector QMS system, offering 40+ types of control steps, real-time task scheduling, and integration with IoT/AR technologies, addresses these challenges. The following list identifies 46 key errors and demonstrates how the tool eliminates them through digital process transformation.

icmInspector QMS API – Expand your system capabilities with integration

The icmInspector system offers advanced APIs that allow for broad integration and extended functionality to optimize quality control processes. Flexible endpoints allow you to tailor the system to your organization's individual needs, streamlining workflows and automating key operations.

Implementing Quality Standards 4.0 - everything you need to know...

Quality 4.0 is an approach to quality management based on the use of Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics, blockchain, and digital twins. The key goal is to integrate quality control systems with digital tools to improve efficiency, anticipate problems, and adapt processes in real time.

Variety of QMS Systems: How to Classify icmInspector QMS?

Quality Management Systems (QMS) play a key role in ensuring the quality of products and services. There are many solutions available on the market, varying in their range of functions, technological advancement, and application areas.

Digitizing quality control helps reduce the number of errors detected by external auditors in the food industry

In recent years, there has been a dynamic development of information technology in various industries, including the food sector. Food production is subject to a number of requirements arising from, among others, HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) and IFS (International Featured Standards) systems.

Why Test icmInspector QMS? – Key Benefits for Your Business

In the face of growing market demands and the need to eliminate production errors, icmInspector is a key tool for digitizing and optimizing quality control processes. The system supports precision, efficiency, and time and resource savings, which translates into real profits for your company.

The 5 WHY method

The 5 WHY method is one of the methods to detect the causes of problems. This is the principle we use to determine the root cause of the problem. Asking a few "Why?" questions allows you to get to the source of the disruption, thoroughly investigate the cause, and focus on solving it effectively.

RPA in Quality Control?

RPA (Robotic Process Automation) is a set of ICT solutions enabling the automation of, among others, repetitive business processes. The group of such tools includes physical robots performing repetitive activities (e.g. in production, storage), but also applications and modules that automate repetitive tasks based on known rules, which were previously performed manually by a human, system user or process actor.

How does icmInspector protect us against the effects of COVID-19?

Every company has been affected in some way by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Each company also began to take measures to minimize the threats that began to appear as a result of COVID-19. The icmInspector system is a tool that, in certain areas, perfectly helps us protect ourselves against certain threats, and more precisely with the effects of sudden and temporary absences of employees from the company.

How to? - Automatic analysis of quality control results.

Carrying out even the best quality controls on products is only half the battle. The other half is the analysis of these results and the introduction of actions as a result of this analysis. The faster we analyze the collected data, the sooner the corrective actions will start. In this post we present how to use icmInspector system to build scenarios for the automatic analysis of quality control results and how to manage activities resulting from detected irregularities.

How much can you save by implementing icmInspector?

icmInspector system introduces automation in many elements of processes that are implemented in every organization. The following table presents a comparison of the time of implementation of individual elements in the variant of work with paper documents and with icmInspector tool.

How to? - Inspections of installations, production lines, facilities with icmInspector?

Functioning of facilities, installation, production line is associated with the need to carry out various inspections and reviews. This need has its source in law regulations, warranty requirements or results from the need to maintain Lean or 5S procedures. How can you implement these processes with icmInspector?

How to? - Objective quality control.

Quality control helping to improve quality of the product must be objective. If quality control process allows a subjective possibility of assessment, we automatically increase the risk that individual batches of the product will be different from each other and their quality will depend on the person performing the control and not on the requirements and assumptions posed to our product. So how do you build an objective quality control scenario?

How to? - 5S (Lean Manufacturing) with icmInspector?

5S is a set of techniques and methods aimed at establishing and maintaining high quality jobs. 5S is at the same time one of the basic tools of Lean Manufacturing and Lean Management, because it is directly related to the proper organization of work environment, improvement of organizational culture of the company and – very importantly - allows to increase process stability.

How to? - Good scenario of product quality control.

One of very important elements of the quality improvement process is quality control process. Quality control process itself consists of many elements, but its most important element is the scenario. How quality control scenario is prepared determines whether t entire control process will have a positive effect on the quality of the product or - on the contrary - will reduce it. So how do you prepare a good quality control scenario?

icmInspector mobile application vs standard work

icmInspector system presentation

icmInspector video presentation (EN). What icmInspector is? Where to use icmInspector? What are key benefits of icmInspector? What are the icmInspector modules? What are the prices of icmInspector?

icmInspector - Augmented Reality

icmInspector system presentation

Video presentation of the icmInspector system. Benefits, applications, model of operation. We invite you to watch it!

Quality control implemented in Home Office mode? It’s possible!

Recently, a somewhat forced mode of remote work (Home Office) causes some processes in the organization implemented on-site (in the place of their execution in the enterprise) become a threat to the entire organization. Inability to fully implement these processes remotely or to implement them on a part-time basis can cause far-reaching negative effects. Quality Control is one such process.

Internal control completed successfully!

To start with, we should define the scope of control, train controllers and inform employees about the purposes of control or internal audit. This basic operation will allow us to carry out internal control efficiently and reliably.

How does a mobile application help in control processes?

A few words about the mobile application in control and its superiority over the paper version of documents. Why does traditional control need to be changed? Carrying out a thorough check involves blocking many resources. This means people, their time and money.