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ISO certification,
without the time-suck

Win more contracts with ISO certification while freeing up more time for production.

In SME (small-to-midsized enterprises) manufacturers, ISO certification helps you compete with the big guys. But ISO calls for recurring internal audits and certification audits to prove your commitment to process excellence. You’re already putting out fires every day, like staff shortages, machine breakdowns, and supply chain issues.

How do you handle ISO audits on top of all that? As a high-hazard industry, OSHA targets manufacturing for 19% of all inspections. And factories with fewer than 50 employees saw 71% of all manufacturing inspection visits. To reduce your risk, how do you affordably improve safety without letting production slip (and how do you stop going crazy with it all)?

ISO Audits call for documentation and traceability
iso REQUIREMENT
WITHOUT MAkerComply
with makercomply
Having documentation and records to prove conformance for ISO certification inspections
Auditors want to see effective,consistent implementation of your Quality Management efforts. Too often, that means you’re spending days assembling evidence to demonstrate conformance for the inspectors.
Your ISO compliance documentation is at your fingertips online, and directly linked to each relevant clause or standard. ISO inspections become streamlined and less stressful.
Conducting time-consuming recurring surveillance audits (without letting production slip or hiring more staff)
Paying consultants to “get us ready for ISO” or wasting time chasing evidence to prove conformance. Rinse and repeat, for annual internal audits.
Real-time updates to your documentation and records means you’re in a continual state of readiness, with a central repository keeping everything in one place. Easily do preparatory internal audits with automated gap analyses, tosee what needs work before your next certification audit.
ISO wants traceability of corrective actions and non-conformances
Paper non-conformance forms go missing, or non-conformance data is manually entered into spreadsheets, with no mechanism to ensure effective follow-up and resolution.
Use Incident Manager to easily report, track, and trigger CAPA (corrective action / preventive action). Automated follow-ups help ensure improvement actually takes place, to prevent recurrences. Show ISO inspectors that you consistently maintain continuous improvement efforts with automated audit trails.
Properly-managed training with full, up-to-date records
ISO calls for training requirements to be documented, then the resulting training must be provided to employees. But that’s not enough: they also need to see evidence of the training and competency levels of your workers, including gap analyses of what competencies your people are lacking. It adds up to a ton of documentation that is laborious and error-prone when tracked manually.
You need a central repository for all training records, with automated training scheduling, reminders, and real-time reports. No more chasing employees to get their training, and manually updating records and reports.
ISO 
REQUIREMENT

Solution
Having documentation and records to prove conformance for ISO certification inspections
WITHOUT MAKERCOMPLY
Auditors want to see effective,consistent implementation of your Quality Management efforts. Too often, that means you’re spending days assembling evidence to demonstrate conformance for the inspectors.

WITH MAKERCOMPLY
Your ISO compliance documentation is at your fingertips online, and directly linked to each relevant clause or standard. ISO inspections become streamlined and less stressful.
Conducting time-consuming recurring surveillance audits (without letting production slip or hiring more staff)
WITHOUT MAKERCOMPLY
Paying consultants to “get us ready for ISO” or wasting time chasing evidence to prove conformance. Rinse and repeat, for annual internal audits.

WITH MAKERCOMPLY
Real-time updates to your documentation and records means you’re in a continual state of readiness, with a central repository keeping everything in one place. Easily do preparatory internal audits with automated gap analyses, tosee what needs work before your next certification audit.
ISO wants traceability of corrective actions and non-conformances
WITHOUT MAKERCOMPLY
Paper non-conformance forms go missing, or non-conformance data is manually entered into spreadsheets, with no mechanism to ensure effective follow-up and resolution.

WITH MAKERCOMPLY
Use Incident Manager to easily report, track, and trigger CAPA (corrective action / preventive action). Automated follow-ups help ensure improvement actually takes place, to prevent recurrences. Show ISO inspectors that you consistently maintain continuous improvement efforts with automated audit trails.
Properly-managed training with full, up-to-date records
WITHOUT MAKERCOMPLY
ISO calls for training requirements to be documented, then the resulting training must be provided to employees. But that’s not enough: they also need to see evidence of the training and competency levels of your workers, including gap analyses of what competencies your people are lacking. It adds up to a ton of documentation that is laborious and error-prone when tracked manually.

WITH MAKERCOMPLY
You need a central repository for all training records, with automated training scheduling, reminders, and real-time reports. No more chasing employees to get their training, and manually updating records and reports.

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From ISO Burden
to Competitive Advantage

Without ISO certification, you risk losing contracts to your bigger competitors. For SME manufacturers, ISO 9001 certification typically increases revenue by 5-20% with access to more contracts.

  • Using MakerComply, you’ll get ISO-certified faster and more cost-effectively, without hiring more quality management staff and eroding profits.
  • You’ll be better able to show continuous improvement efforts, using MakerComply to help track and respond to incidents and problems that hurt productivity and cause re-work.
  • More effectively managing training with MakerComply Training Manager helps you keep staff ISO-compliant while maximizing their competence and productivity.
  • Best of all: you get your work-life balance back, and you sleep better at night knowing you’re ready for an audit at any time.

It’s not “one and done” – ISO certification is meant to be a tool for continuous improvement -  but it’s as close as possible to “set and forget,” with MakerComply prompting self-serve training updates, automating CAPA follow-ups and tracking; and guiding you through regular internal audits with dynamic updates to crucial evidence of conformance.

ISO Certification Pays Off If You Keep it Efficient
Learn more about our software tools to help you get ISO certification faster and easier:
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Audit Manager
Automate all your ISO and other audits with links to supporting documentation in one easy-to-use repository. Learn more >
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Training Manager
Stay on top of required quality and safety training with automated scheduling, reports, and reminders. Learn more >
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Incident Manager
Enable staff to report incidents from any device and automate CAPA and other follow-ups, so nothing falls through the cracks. Learn more >
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Document Manager
House all your SOPs, WIs, JHAs, and SDSs in a central repository with automated audit trails, FDA-compliant data integrity, automated approval reminders, and more. Learn more >