For Quality & Operations Leaders

ISO 9001 to Six Sigma — operationalized.

Quality, safety, environment, energy — continuously assured on one operating layer. Continuous improvement as a system property, not a project.

ISO 9001IATF 16949AS9100Six SigmaTPM
What you're accountable for

Every standard. Every plant. Every shift.

ISO 9001 quality management. ISO 14001 environmental management. ISO 45001 occupational health & safety. Sector standards (IATF 16949, AS9100, ISO 13485). Internal SOPs. Non-conformance and CAPA. Customer audits. Supplier audits. Certification body surveillance. Six Sigma / Lean / TPM programme delivery. Multi-plant / multi-site quality consistency. And a workforce that treats SOPs as guidance rather than gospel.

Today, all of this lives in binders, WhatsApp groups, quality inspectors' notebooks and a QMS that predates the cloud.

What GRAC means for your week

Seven shifts in how quality operates.

Multi-standard on one Practice

One machine-guard inspection Practice satisfies ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 45001 (safety), ISO 14001 (environment) simultaneously. Configure once. Assure once. Three certifications' worth of contribution.

Plant-level, line-level, shift-level ownership

Same Practice, many Instances. Each Instance carries the shift supervisor, the line lead, the plant EHS officer as its owner — with its own cadence and evidence type.

Concurrent assurance on quality controls

Automated ingestion from MES, SCADA, PLM, IoT. Manual assurance via mobile tickets. Evidence stops being paper.

Non-conformance + CAPA lifecycle

Structured NC intake. Root cause analysis. CAPA linked to specific Practice Instances that address the root cause. Effectiveness verification built into assurance.

Comparative analytics across plants and lines

Corporate quality gets a data-driven view of every unit. Same Practice, ranked. Which plant is best at first-pass yield? Which shift has better safety compliance? Data, not opinion.

Training tied to shop-floor certifications

Auto-assigned by role and shift. Certificate expiry management. Completion as evidence.

Continuous improvement, measurable

Maturity progression from ISO baseline to Lean to Six Sigma to TPM. Gaps as tasks. Closure into operationalization. Improvement as a system property.

Case in point

Two-month scramble → surveillance closed in a day.

A Quality Manager at a mid-sized auto components manufacturer ran ISO 9001, IATF 16949 and ISO 14001 across four plants. Every certification surveillance was a two-month scramble. Post-GRAC: one Practice per shop-floor behavior, instantiated per line per shift, continuously assured. Surveillance visits closed in a day. Six Sigma projects sourced their improvement targets directly from Assurance Engine signals.

Ready?

A 45-minute demo.

Pick one plant, three standards. We'll show multi-standard posture live.