1. Seek evidence of suppliers’ quality know-how before conducting business with them by auditing their quality management procedures or checking for quality certifications, such as ISO certificates.
2. Assure that the quality management system performs against the established or documented standard procedures.
3. Monitor all identified non-compliance issues in the quality management system and evaluate the effectiveness of the preventive and corrective actions.
4. Make sure that measurement data is consistent by checking whether gauges, filters or counters are reliable and give consistent and repeatable outputs.
5. Establish and maintain a searchable quality assurance database to store the audit programmes, evidences and results/reports, .
6. Improve knowledge management to turn data into knowledge about quality, production and customer satisfaction, which helps in making tactical decisions, such as allocating routine maintenance, and planning strategic issues, such as product re-design and technology updates.
7. Gather and report results of quality checks and the status of the quality audit plan to management.