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ISO 9001
The evidence, as a by-product of the work
Visual Tracking does not make anyone ISO 9001 certified. The standard assesses a management system, not a piece of software. What it changes is where your evidence comes from. Records build up as people do the work, rather than being assembled the week before an audit.
Ask about your own shop
Describe what you make and how you work. It will point out what would change, and where Visual Tracking wouldn't help.
Clause by clause
What an auditor is looking for, and what Visual Tracking records against it.
What the auditor wants. Nonconforming work identified, contained, and dealt with by a decision someone owns.
NCRs are raised against a specific item, production order or purchase order, typed as Deviation Permit, Concession, Technical Clarification or a category you configure, and tracked through to resolution. An open NCR badges the related record everywhere it appears, so it cannot quietly move on.
What the auditor wants. Root cause established, corrective action taken, effectiveness reviewed. And a trend you can show over time.
The NCR follows the 8D structure, with root cause recorded against the report. Root Cause Analytics then charts NCR volume by cause over months, so you can show whether a corrective action actually reduced a recurring cause rather than asserting it.
What the auditor wants. The ability to say which physical material went into a finished item, and to prove it.
The Trace List walks the production order genealogy from the finished item down through every consumed component to purchased material, carrying heat numbers and material certificates with it.
What the auditor wants. Current revisions available where the work happens, and superseded ones not in circulation.
Drawings, certificates, procedures and inspection records live in one registry, tagged to the records they belong to: projects, items, production orders, routing lines, NCRs. They surface on those records rather than in a separate folder tree.
What the auditor wants. Control over what suppliers send you, and a record of what was checked on receipt.
Purchase covers the inbound chain from suggestion through long-lead orders to receipt, with received items reconciled against what was ordered.
What the auditor wants. Evidence that you watch the process, not just the output, and that someone acts on what it shows.
Standard reports plus a report builder for your own layouts, alongside the live production and work centre load views the floor already runs on.
What this page is not
Visual Tracking is not certified software, and it cannot make a company certified. ISO 9001 assesses a management system, and no tool substitutes for that. What it changes is where the evidence comes from. If your nonconformities live in a shared spreadsheet and your material certificates live in a folder tree, an audit means assembling a story. If they are attached to the orders and items they belong to, the story is already written.
Visual Tracking requires Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, with the Manufacturing and Project modules in use. If you are not on Business Central, this is not for you, and the assistant will say so.