Glossary
QMS
Quality management system
In practice
A QMS runs quality over weeks and months across sites and suppliers. A good MOM platform covers that scope as well as quality at the point of production, which replaces the need for a separate QMS. An MES focused on production can feed a QMS instead, so non-conformances arrive with full context.
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