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nidox Ltd., St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge CB4 0WS, UK Registered in England and Wales 06506232

About gQMS 

We provide an easy way to turn your business processes and procedures into graphicalQuality Management System (gQMS) web pages. When an employee can visualise theworkflow, it is easier to follow the steps, understand progress, and identify any weak spots inthe procedure for improvement.

Why Use gQMS? 

gQMS is a solution for companies that want a visual QMS but don’t have the resources toinvest in lengthy implementation or training. It is perfect for companies who don’t have alarge IT department with time to spare for Intranet-type projects.

It provides a simple way for users with no web design skills to capture business processesas graphical elements and present these as HTML pages within a web browser. The QualityManager becomes a QMS editor, in charge of the overall QMS review and approval process. Anyone in the company can be a QMS contributor.

The only tools required for building a gQMS are familiar ones such as Microsoft Excel, Visioor PowerPoint. No HTML, JavaScript, or CSS skills are required.

Create Visual QMS web content 

You can create a basic gQMS in just a matter of days. You can do the work yourself or callon our network of QA Consultant partners to do it for you.

Get in Touch 

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Simple Steps

To create a gQMS you start with a templatewe provide. You edit just two lines, and oneof those is simply naming your QMS. Thetop-level menu and navigation structure isdefined in an Excel spreadsheet. Eachprocess or procedure is a graphical filecreated with Visio, Inkscape, PowerPoint,or any other graphical editor able to save-as Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file.

We use SVG because vector graphics aresmall, bandwidth-efficient files that can beresized without quality loss on differentbrowser devices. SVG has interactivity built-in so we can add hyperlinks to the graphic,which is essential for an interactive QMS. The user can call up blank forms, pop-up helppanels, step-by-step instructions, training videos, and more with the click of a button. SVG issupported in all modern browsers and SVG files can be created using a wide variety ofdesktop or online graphic editor tools.

The gQMS is a controlled document 

Every file that makes up the gQMS is a version-controlled document that will satisfy therequirements of standards such as ISO 9001 or ISO 13485. A gQMS aligns perfectly withthe principles behind the standards - customer focus, leadership, employee involvement,process approach, system approach to management, and continual improvement.

You can start documents as drafts and have them reviewed by a core team. When they areready, the document is up-issued and approved, ready for use in the gQMS. You can evolvethe gQMS by changing just one part, and not the entire web site. You can freeze or obsoleteprocedures. Adding new elements is an easy, incremental process.

Fully-integrated Information Security 

You can use security features such as private workspaces, limited access groups, securityprofiles and user document editing rights to decide who gets to see the final gQMS and whohas access to the parts that it contains. You can tie the gQMS into your Web Analytics andReporting capability to discover which procedures are being used most.

Deployment

Your gQMS can be installed on your on-premise servers or hosted on Private Cloud serversmanaged by us. It's your choice. We offer hosting at nine data centres located around theworld in Europe, Asia-Pacific and North America.

3-step method for creating a gQMS