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Resources

Free Tools First. Paid Ones When You Need Them.

A two-minute readiness check, checklists you can walk your floor with, templates written by an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, short live courses, and a monthly brief on what changed.

Free Readiness Check

Would Your Quality System Pass an Audit Next Month?

Six questions, two minutes. You see your score straight away, and where an auditor would look first. Nothing leaves this page unless you choose to send it.

1 of 6 · ISO 9001 · 5.2, 6.2Could anyone on your floor find your quality policy and this year’s objectives?

Not recite them. Find them, in under a minute.

2 of 6 · ISO 9001 · 7.5Are your procedures written down, approved, and current?

An auditor will pull one at random and compare it with what people actually do.

3 of 6 · ISO 9001 · 10.2When something goes wrong, do you find the root cause and check that the fix worked?

Or Does the Same Problem Come Back Every Few Months?

4 of 6 · ISO 9001 · 9.2Do you run internal audits on a written schedule?

Including the reports and the follow-up.

5 of 6 · ISO 9001 · 9.3Does management review quality data at least once a year, and is it recorded?

Minutes, decisions, and the actions that came out of them.

6 of 6 · ISO 9001 · 8.4Do you evaluate your suppliers and keep track of how they perform?

Approved supplier list, criteria, and evidence you used them.

Standards & Guidance

A Brief on Every Standard We Name

What each standard requires, what an auditor asks to see, and its current status, on QES letterhead. Filter by industry or jurisdiction, and download the PDF.

Browse Standards & Guidance See What Changed

77
Standards and regulations, each with a brief
13
Full reports with checklists and roadmaps
13
Changes found when every status was checked on October 24, 2026

Free Downloads

The Checklist an Auditor Works From

Walk your floor with it before your registrar does. Three shorter guides sit beside it.

  • Audit-Readiness Checklist

    In Preparation

    Forty-two questions, in the order an auditor asks them.

    ISO 9001 · 42 Items · 4 Pages · PDF

  • CAPA Quick Guide

    In Preparation

    Root cause to effectiveness check, on two pages.

    ISO 13485 · 21 CFR Part 820 · 2 Pages · PDF

  • Post-Market Surveillance Plan Outline

    In Preparation

    The sections a PMS plan needs, with prompts.

    EU MDR 2017/745 · Word

  • Supplier Evaluation Matrix

    In Preparation

    Criteria, scoring, and a re-evaluation schedule.

    ISO 9001 · 8.4 · Excel

Reserve Your Copies

These are in preparation. Leave your address and they come to you the day they are ready.

Which Ones?

Templates and Toolkits

Start From Documents Written by an Auditor

Editable Word and Excel files with instructions in the margin, written by an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer. Buy once and adapt them to your company, or have them fitted for you.

ISO 9001

QMS Starter Pack

Quality manual, policy, objectives, and the procedures the standard requires.

14 documents · Word

ISO 9001

Internal Audit Kit

Audit schedule, clause checklists, report form, and a findings log.

6 documents · Word and Excel

ISO 9001

Supplier Control Pack

Evaluation criteria, scoring matrix, and an approved supplier list.

4 documents · Excel

ISO 13485

CAPA Toolkit

Procedure, root cause worksheets, and an effectiveness check form.

7 documents · Word and Excel

ISO 13485 · MDR 2017/745

PMS Report Templates

Post-market surveillance plan, trend report, and periodic summary.

5 documents · Word

21 CFR Part 820

Complaint Handling Set

Intake form, investigation record, and reportability decision tree.

5 documents · Word

Want Them Fitted to Your Company?

Any toolkit can be tailored to your processes. The template price is credited in full against the tailoring work.

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Training

Teach Your People to Do It Right the First Time

Short live sessions online, taught by an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer whose master’s specialization is adult education. Each comes with a certificate of attendance for your training records.

Live Webinar · 60 Minutes

ISO 9001:2026: What Changes, and What to Do About It

The changes that affect a small manufacturer, in plain language, with the questions to bring to your next management review. Recording included if you cannot attend live.

$49per seat

Tell Me the Date

Dates go to the Quality Brief list first.

Internal Auditor Fundamentals

Plan, run, and report an internal audit that holds up.

For Supervisors, QA Staff Length 3 Hours $245 per seat Notify Me

Root Cause and CAPA

Stop putting out the same fires again and again.

For Anyone Who Closes CAPAs Length 90 Minutes $145 per seat Notify Me

FMEAs for Small Business Owners

Built on Marcia’s ASQ Quality Press book.

For Owners, Engineers Length 2 Hours $175 per seat Notify Me

Document Control That Works

Approve, issue, and retire documents without a bottleneck.

For Admin, QA Staff Length 60 Minutes $95 per seat Notify Me

Training Five or More People?

Private sessions for up to 12 people, on site or live online, from $1,600 a session, built around your own procedures.

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Monthly · Free

The Quality Brief

What changed in the standards and regulations this month, what it means for a small manufacturer, and one thing to do about it. Five minutes to read.

One email a month. Unsubscribe in one click. Your address is never shared.

In a Typical Issue

ISO
Where the ISO 9001:2026 transition stands

What certification bodies are asking for, and by when.

FDA
What inspectors are citing under the QMSR

The observations that keep coming up, and the records that answer them.

EU MDR
One post-market surveillance question to ask

A single prompt for your next PMS review.