Defining quality objectives

Quality objectives are overall goals or targets stated by the organization in order to achieve improvement within the QMS. Quality objectives have a strategic role in carrying out the quality policy and its implementation through a quality management system and provide a means to assess whether the QMS achieves its goals.  Therefore, it is not necessary to define quality objectives each year, this really depends on the mission, a vision and strategy of your company.

However, please differentiate a quality objectives from regular business objectives. Business objectives you can define each year, they can be depatment-specific, anything that you need fulfill you business golas.

Standard quality objectives can be: meeting customer and regulatory requirements, achieving the improvement of the QMS and its products, and enhancing customer satisfaction. 

In these articles, you have more information about setting good quality objectives:

• Setting good quality objectives for ISO 13485 https://advisera.com/13485academy/knowledgebase/setting-good-quality-objectives-for-iso-13485/
• How to write good quality objectiveshttps://advisera.com/9001academy/knowledgebase/how-to-write-good-quality-objectives/