About
Built by an auditor who kept seeing the same gap
Single Management System LLC is based in Sarasota, Florida. It develops the Single Management System, the Gemba Symmetry software and an IACET-accredited training program.
Founder
Jeffrey Lewis, CQP FCQI
Jeffrey Lewis trained as a manufacturing engineer building sugar machinery, then managed the operation and maintenance of that same equipment, and later ran fleet maintenance. In 1998 he moved into management systems with one aim: a single, integrated system. He has worked as an independent consultant ever since.
He has spent about 27 years in quality management and has conducted roughly 100 accredited third-party audits. He is a Chartered Quality Professional and Fellow of the Chartered Quality Institute, and he has published on management systems since 1999.
He regards the path from paperless ISO to management system control, which ERP systems cannot carry out, as his life's work.
The path to one system
History
- 1998
Moves into management systems as an independent consultant, aiming at an integrated system.
- 1999
Publishes "Maintenance as a Quality Process".
- 2001
Publishes "Eliminating the Paper Checklist".
- 2006
QMS Consulting, Inc. receives the QAI Best of the Best Award for "Safety In Your Hand", which joined lockout/tagout, confined space and hot work with corrective action on one bar-code-driven system.
- 2006
U.S. Patent 6,994,258, Technician Safety Confirmation, is issued.
- 2008
U.S. Patent 7,410,101, Technician Safety Confirmation, is issued as a continuation.
- 2026
Gemba Symmetry, Enterprise Electronic Control SaaS, patent pending. ISO 9001:2026 course accredited under IACET Provider #5660334.
Intellectual property
Patents
Two issued U.S. patents for paperless, scan-driven safety confirmation, and a pending application for the enterprise control system that grew from them. Inventor: Richard Jeffrey Lewis.
Technician Safety Confirmation
The originating patent. A technician scans the equipment's identification label, and the system confirms against the schedule of equipment inactivation whether it is safe to work, supporting lockout/tagout verification.
View patent →Technician Safety Confirmation
A continuation of 6,994,258. Provides safety confirmation and hazard warning by comparing scanned equipment with its inactivation schedule, with remote rescheduling and optional lockout to protect the technician from hazardous conditions.
View patent →Enterprise Electronic Control
Converts ISO 9001 into a real-time enterprise control system that continuously measures whether top management's strategic direction is achieving its intended results. The technology behind Gemba Symmetry.
About the technology →Accreditation
IACET Accredited Provider #5660334
Single Management System LLC is accredited by IACET to award Continuing Education Units for its training.
Single Management System LLC is accredited by the International Accreditation for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Single Management System LLC complies with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As a result of this accreditation, Single Management System LLC is authorized to issue the IACET CEU.
Service
Remote internal auditing
Independent remote internal audits, conducted by an external auditor with no responsibility for the decisions being audited. Audits test whether the system is effective, not only whether records exist.
- Top management is audited separately from operations, because each runs its own loop.
- Risk-based audits trace corrective actions through the loop and check whether the process returned to its band.
- Remote quality manager support is available for manufacturers without a full-time quality manager.