Elevate Your Standards and Attract New Business
Quality management systems (QMSs) provide a basic framework to ensure that your systems comply with standards or technical specifications. These standards can be imposed by customers, your industry, or may even be regulatory requirements.
Our QMS experts can help with a wide variety of standards, from ISO, to AS9100, to IATF, and beyond, providing your team with all the necessary training and resources. We offer interactive half day, full day, and multiple-day trainings with on-site assessments and implementation services.
The engagement with Polaris MEP has already opened doors by meeting our channel partner’s ISO requirement. We expect that the work we have done with them will lead to even more revenue and jobs down the road.
Jeffrey Flath
President and CEO, eNow
Your Biggest Challenges Solved
Grow Sales
Market Competitiveness
Improve Quality
How We Help
GAP ANALYSIS
Gap analysis is about assessing the distance between your current situation and full implementation of your chosen QMS.
Completing this analysis provides you with clarity of project scope to reach your goals.
QMS FACILITATION
We facilitate the development of your key corporate documentation to conform with your chosen QMS. This includes aligning your quality manual, organizational procedures, and work instructions with your new standards and requirements.
AUDITOR TRAINING
In this two-day training session, your auditor will learn key concepts of your chosen QMS and will acquire the skills needed to conduct successful internal audits.
Innovative exercises will help your auditor thoroughly understand the purpose and responsibilities that come with this new role.
COMPLIANCE READINESS
We’ll work with you and train your team to get put you in the best position possible in advance of your audit.
We’ve successfully prepared Rhode Island manufacturers for certifications including ISO 9001:2015, ISO 140001, AS9100, IATF and Nadcap.
Show Customers a Higher Standard of Quality
- Open up new markets
- Reduce waste and make production more consistent
- Increase employee performance and training
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