Does Your Organization’s Quality Management System (QMS) Conform to International Standards? In quality management, the key idea is and has always been compliance . Quality managers emphasize that they are complying with rules, regulations, laws – and the company’s quality management system (QMS). But what does the QMS itself comply with? And who assesses if the QMS is valid? This is where the idea of conformance comes to the fore. While ‘complying’ means that a system obeys