Our advice
How to move from a paper-based QMS to 100% dematerialization

It can be tempting to prohibit all printing when implementing dematerialization. Instead, our advice is to empower staff, and automatically generate watermarks indicating staff name, date and copy status. After that, you'll need to check regularly to make sure that these printed documents don't end up in filing cabinets, thereby preventing a parallel system from being set up.

The success of dematerialization depends on effective...