Quality Test Resource Management

Providing quality personnel, material, and equipment resource definitions
- Should the MES maintain Master Data for QM-Staff, Test Material and Test Devices?
- Are there definitions for QM Staff, QM Resources and QM Materials available?
- Where was this kind of definition maintained previously?
- Who maintains these definitions?
- Which definitions are available therefor?
- Are these definitions sufficient?

Providing information on resource capability
- Should the MES maintain information about resource capabilities?
- Are the staff skills documented?
- Are the resource skills (e.g. Laboratory devices) documented?
- Are the properties of the Test Materials documented?

Ensuring that requests for acquisition of resources to meet future test capabilities are initiated
- Should the MES support Operations to guarantee sufficient resources? If yes, how?
- Are resources still needed to fulfill future testing activities?
- For which planning horizon the availability of resources should be ensured?
- Who is responsible for the timely provision of these resources?
- At what times should the resource requirement be indicated?

Ensuring that equipment is available and that job titles are correct and training is current for personnel
- Should an MES ensure that test equipment is available and that staff qualifications are valid?
- Is the qualification of the QM staff sufficient?
- ** Sind die nötigen Schulungsmaßnahmen durchgeführt worden?<br />Have the necessary trainings been carried out?
- ** Wer definiert die Schulungsmaßnahmen?<br />Who defines the necessary trainings?
- ** Wo sind die Qualifizierungsanforderungen für das QM-Personal hinterlegt?<br />Where are the qualification requirements for the QM staff located?

Providing information on the location of resources and assignment of resources to areas
- Should an MES manage information about the location of audit resources and their association with areas (e.g., usage areas, organizational areas, ...)?
- Which areas should be differentiated?
- Which resources should be included?
- Which location information should be deposited?
- Which assignments are there?

Collecting information on the current state of personnel, equipment, and material resources
- Should an MES record the current status of QM resources?
- How should the status be recorded?
- Which statuses should be recorded?

Maintaining test personnel qualification test information
- Who has to do which qualification tests?
- What results does he have to achieve in order to carry out certain tasks?
- Who maintains this information?
- Who makes this information available?
- In which system are they provided?

Maintaining equipment capability test information
- Should the MES provide information on test facilities for specific equipment (e.g., scales, filters, etc.)?
- Should the MES provide information about common equipment testing capabilities (usually covered by equipment properties)?

Managing reservations for future use of quality test resources
- Should the MES be able to manage and reserve test weights or specimens (e.g., for visual inspection, metal detection, etc.)?
- Should the MES manage and reserve resources for automatic or semi-automated inspections?