General

• Links to Document Control and Personnel for easy cross referencing.
• Links to Nonconformities module for reporting discrepancies and setting up corrective actions.
• Audits allows different individuals or groups to access and edit the audit and to view its results. Unauthorised personnel can be prevented from viewing audit schedules where this is contrary to company policy, or where an audit is to be carried out on an 'unseen' basis.

Audit Templates

• User definable templates for Audit planning.
• Templates relieve repetitive tasks by storing information that can be re-used as a basis for different audits.
• Future audits based on a template can accept its default attributes or be edited to accommodate new or differing attributes.
• Items for audit can be recorded individually or can be grouped into categories allowing the delegation of different areas to separate auditors - or to have different auditees assigned to them.
• All items for checking can be stored in the Library so that future audits have the foundation for a built-in checklist. In this way there is little danger that items or areas may be overlooked, especially if new auditors or assessors are appointed.
• Print off checklists for recording results in the field.
• Drag and drop in checklists.

Scheduling Audits

• Audits can be automatically scheduled to run at any time and with any frequency.
• Comprehensive calendar showing all scheduled audits whether planned, running or completed.
• Dynamic audit schedule shown in graph form as a Gantt chart.
• Planned start dates may be altered and the audit duration extended, if necessary.

Running Audits

• Audits allows editing at any time, even when running an audit, so that approved personnel can make additions or alterations to items or areas to be checked as the audit progresses.
• Previous runs of the relevant audit are stored by the system.
• Allows easy comparison between results and previous audit approaches.
• Results can be recorded in three ways : a simple pass or fail, a numeric score, or a user defined result description. This allows the adoption of any terminology in use by an organisation for audit results.
• Immediate access to personnel and departments when recording results. These areas may be edited whilst the audit is running.
• Results also allow the recording of Nonconformities (where this module is installed) and remind the user of any nonconformities from previous audits.
• Auditors have the flexibility to add checklist items to the module library at any time during an audit or to work with a pre-defined checklist. The library stores the items for future retrieval and also offers a keyword search.
• Only when completed are audit results 'frozen'. They may still be viewed at any time by authorised users and their information used in reports.