Every company that has a quality management system, must define the quality management system in a quality manual. One of the things the quality manual defines is the the documents that the that make up the Quality management system itself. These documents describe the procedure procedures and policies, explain how a particular tasks should be carried out, as well as the records that demonstrate compliance to regulations.

Because the regulations do not define what exactly each company needs to do to comply with the regulations, the quality management system and therefore the documents that make up the system may be different for each company.

In this module you’ll learn

- what documents make up the quality management system,
- how you will use the documents,
- how document controls are applied in STUDENTfacturED,
- how STUDENTfacturED uses part numbers to identify every item in the lab.
- what good documentation practices (GDPs) are,
- how to apply GDPs, and
- how to access STUDENTfacturED documents.