Simulated workplaceCAQA Apex Manufacturing is a fictional business created by CAQA for training and assessment. It is not a real company and no person, client or record here is real.About this simulation
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Simulated workplace
Department

Quality and Laboratory

Samples and tests raw materials, batches and finished products, releases product against specification, investigates nonconformances and customer complaints, and maintains the quality management system and its documents so that certification is kept.

Quality and Laboratory Manager11 staff
Home/Departments/Quality and Laboratory
Responsibilities

What the team is accountable for

  • Sample and test every batch before release
  • Maintain calibration of scales, sieves and test equipment
  • Raise and close nonconformance reports
  • Run internal audits and management review inputs
  • Control documents, recipes and specifications
Performance measures

How we know it is working

94 percent
Batches released within 24 hours
7
Open nonconformances
2.1
Customer complaints per month
People

Who works here

SP

Sanjay Pillai

Quality and Laboratory Manager

Sanjay leads the laboratory and the quality management system, has held the role for seven years and is the internal audit lead.

MC

Mei-Lin Chau

Laboratory Technician

Mei-Lin samples and tests batches, checks pack weights and maintains the calibration register, and joined the laboratory two years ago.