---
title: "Guides to setting up a visual QMS · VisualQMS"
url: "https://visualqms.com/blog/"
language: "en"
description: "Guides for quality teams, from mapping your processes to keeping training records up to date. Written by the people who build and implement VisualQMS."
dateModified: "2026-09-29"
---

From the VisualQMS team

# Build a visual QMS step by step

Guides for quality teams, from mapping your processes to keeping training records up to date. Written by the people who build and implement VisualQMS.

 [![](https://visualqms.com/img/_KboG6Tnrt-200.png) Perspective · 29 September 2026

## Data sovereignty and the AI in your QMS

An AI assistant reads your complaints, deviations and SOPs to answer you. Whose law reaches that content, what to ask a provider, and the European options.

Read the guide](https://visualqms.com/blog/european-ai-in-your-qms/) [![](https://visualqms.com/img/dmA12atp9z-1200.svg) How-to · 12 March 2021

## Three ways to automate training in VisualQMS

What you need before you start with training management, and three ways VisualQMS keeps training records up to date without a spreadsheet.

Read the guide](https://visualqms.com/blog/training-management-setup/) [![](https://visualqms.com/img/CrfCyvon4d-200.webp) Getting started · 20 January 2020

## What goes into a visual QMS

A visual QMS lets everyone see the quality system from the angle that suits their job. Here are the parts it is made of, and how to start.

Read the guide](https://visualqms.com/blog/what-is-a-visual-qms/) [![](https://visualqms.com/img/4Lpp6-ZxzV-200.webp) Getting started · 16 January 2020

## Build a document library that stays under control

The steps from a shared drive full of files to a library where people open the approved version every time.

Read the guide](https://visualqms.com/blog/setting-up-a-controlled-document-library/) [![](https://visualqms.com/img/hBlZ4XNQq2-200.webp) Getting started · 15 January 2020

## Draw a process map your team can read

In a visual QMS, the documents and requirements are linked to the boxes on the process map. Here is how to draw one layer by layer, from the company top level down.

Read the guide](https://visualqms.com/blog/creating-the-visual-process-map/) [![](https://visualqms.com/img/liCUMiRyn8-1200.svg) Getting started · 14 January 2020

## Set up a visual QMS in four milestones

The start of our series on building a visual quality management system: the parts it is made of, and the order to set them up in.

Read the guide](https://visualqms.com/blog/get-started-with-visual-qms/) 

## Click through a finished process map with us

Book a personal demo and we open a finished map with you, from the company top level down to the documents behind each activity. We answer the same working day.

[Book a demo](https://visualqms.com/book-a-demo/?message=Demo%20request%3A%20a%20finished%20process%20map)