What is the challenge with managing a QMS actively

Well, something that we have that's always been an issue for us has been the ability to stay on top of actively managing the quality management system.

I think I started looking at options for moving to electronic quality management system just a few years ago because I had realized over the past probably three years, 3-4 years that the amount of manual work required to operate the quality management system was becoming so onerous that the team was less likely to utilize the processes put into place, documentation put into place to move new product development or just basic quality control processes along.

We weren't leveraging our quality management system to its fullest potential to help improve how we do our day to day business operations. And that's the whole point of having a quality management system in the first place is to be able to identify, control, document, and then create improvements in how those core business practices affect the quality output of your product,

How that entire system works, and if the mechanics of how that quality management system operate are so difficult to work with in the first place, or so resource intensive, then it becomes a self-defeating prophecy.