EtQ
Resource Center: Document Management Software, CAPA Software
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 Food Safety, from Farm to Fork: A Best-Practice Approach to Implementing a Food Safety Management System
Globalization has made it cost-effective for manufacturers to purchase ingredients from lower cost countries around the world-but at what cost to consumers? As a result of the increase in globalization of the world's food supply and the ensuing food-scares, consumers are now, more than ever, demanding safe, quality food.
This paper will describe how automating your Food Safety Management Software system will streamline processes and procedures related to HACCP-ensuring compliance to regulations in the food and beverage industry. We will also look at how FSMS technology solutions are able to adopt a best-practices approach in implementing both HACCP and food safety initiatives, giving companies the traceability and transparency needed to provide a safe and quality product. |
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Taking Quality outside your Four Walls: An integrated approach to Supplier Quality Management
In today's dynamic business environment, suppliers play an important role in bringing products to market. As businesses continue to evolve and improve efficiencies in the production process, the supply chain plays an ever increasing role in ensuring business objectives are met.
This paper will outline several key concepts into how companies can extend their enterprise quality management system to their suppliers, and effectively take quality outside their four walls. |
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An Insider's Guide to Selecting a Quality Management Software System
In today's dynamic and demand-driven market, the need to implement enterprise technology to keep pace with rapidly evolving operational, production and compliance environments is key to success. In recent years, enterprise technology has become more prevalent in its penetration of all operational areas within a business. It has become so prevalent that it is rare to find a department within an organization that does not have a dedicated enterprise software solution to provide some level of support.
This paper will discuss a few of the key considerations when selecting a software vendor, some pitfalls to avoid, and technical considerations for ensuring the software system is a good fit for your business. |
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An Integrated Approach to Air Safety: Integrated Airline Management Systems for the Airline Industry
The airline industry is playing a major role in aiding economic growth, world trade, international investment, and tourism and is therefore central to the globalization taking place all over the world. Airlines face numerous compliance challenges, including complying with regulations and initiatives set forth by the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and regulatory bodies. With all of the compliance pressures, whether it is safety, environmental, quality, or financial, there has become an urgent need for an Integrated Airline Management System (IAMS). An effective IAMS would be a seamless integrated system that is easy to use and would effectively manage airline compliance. This paper will describe the Integrated Airline Management System, how implementation of an IAMS can improve operations, safety, security and quality, and what best practices are being implemented globally for IAMS. |
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Integration Management Connects Key Business Systems to Quality
This paper will discuss
the concept of specifically
integrating a QMS with enterprise
business systems in order
to create visibility into
status of quality, transfer
information to and from
these systems, and reduce
product defects and process
noncompliance, as a result
increasing overall efficiency. |
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Managing
Your Risk Has its Rewards
In today's Quality Management
systems, the ability to
control and correct processes
is key to maintaining a
high level of compliance
within an organization.
How can organizations effectively
measure events from an objective
standpoint to assess the
overall impact? The answer
is Risk Assessment and Risk
Mitigation. |
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Beyond
CAPA: Using Risk Assessment
to Streamline Your Quality
System
CAPA has Become a Catchall.
With all the processes associated
with managing a quality
and compliance management
system, corrective action
and preventive action (CAPA)
is a prominent feature.
In many cases, if an event
is found in the system,
a CAPA is generated. No
matter the scope or severity,
CAPA is the ultimate catchall
for events in the system. |
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Papers |
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Integration Management |
EtQ's Integration
APIs are able to provide
an enterprise quality management
solution that integrates
information silos, making
timely coordination and
communication easy to achieve
and removing any information
gatekeepers.
This focused integration
of information silos greatly
improves productivity across
the enterprise, and makes
crucial data immediately
available to the resources
that need it, when they
need it. |
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EtQ
Document Management System
Integration |
| EtQ comes
with a powerful Document
Control application ideally
suited to managing quality
system documentation. However, many companies have already
implemented document management
systems (DMS), sometimes
referred to as enterprise
content management systems
(ECM), and want to store
their quality documents
in the same document repository.
The EtQ DMS Integration
Tool makes this possible,
while retaining all the
benefits of EtQ's Document
Control functionality. |
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EtQ
for Medical Device |
| EtQ Medical
Device is an integrated
quality and compliance management
system that has been pre-configured
to specifically address
the needs of the Medical
Device industry, and exceed
21 CFR Part 11 requirements.
EtQ's unique modular approach
provides unparalleled flexibility
and automation. The modules
are tightly integrated to
deliver a best-in-class
CAPA solution. |
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EtQ
for Manufacturing |
| EtQ for Manufacturing is an integrated quality and compliance management software system that has been pre-configured to specifically address the needs of the Manufacturing industry and ISO 9000 processes. |
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| EtQ
for Environmental Health & Safety |
| EtQ for Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) is an integrated
quality and compliance management
system that has been pre-configured
to specifically address
the needs of the EHS industry, and maintain compliance to ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISO 9000, Six Sigma and more. EtQ's unique modular approach
provides unparalleled flexibility
and automation. The modules
are tightly integrated to
deliver a best-in-class
Enterprise EHS Management solution. |
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| EtQ
Technology Brief |
| EtQ is committed to providing innovative technological solutions that meet the changing business and quality needs of its customers. |
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| EtQ
Reliance 6.0 |
| EtQ Reliance 6.0 is built on EtQ's unique Flexible Workflow Engine™, which allows the workflows, forms, sections, fields, reports, and even the look and feel to be configured without programming. Version 6.0 incorporates major enhancements designed to further automate Quality and Compliance Management Systems. |
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| EtQ
Project Control Module |
EtQ's Project Control module is designed to organize and automate the process of managing tasks, deliverables and
activities within Quality and Compliance projects. Using the Project Control module, Managers are able to outline specific project, whether on an ad-hoc basis or using pre-defined templates such as APQP, PPAP, Six Sigma and more. |
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| EtQ Enterprise Configuration Center (ECC) |
| EtQ's ECC is able to roll-up company-wide data into quantitative reports that show top compliance risks across each site within the
enterprise, enabling continuous improvement initiatives that span the entire organization. |
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| Case
Studies |
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Herman
Miller |
| Herman Miller,
Inc. (HMI), an international
office furniture manufacturer,
relies on EtQ's Solutions
to manage its entire document
control system, including
its supply chain management
process. By implementing
EtQ Solutions, HMI employees
have created an ever-expanding
knowledge base. |
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Alcan |
| Alcan began
using EtQ in 1995, and has
grown the scope of their
Quality Management System
to a Global Rollout of EtQ
across 350 sites, over 10,000
users, and in 14 languages.
EtQ is currently the driving
application behind Alcan's
EHS First initiative. The
EHS First program, one of
Alcan's top three business
goals, is geared towards
achieving excellence in
environmental, health and
safety management. EtQ has
been able to provide enterprise-wide
application support in fulfillment
of the EHS First Program. |
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FUJIFILM |
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Manufacturing U.S.A., Inc.
implemented EtQ Reliance
in 2006, to help unify its
sites and consolidate the
company's quality and environmental
processes. As Fujifilm moves
forward, they plan to expand
EtQ Reliance to cover its
process safety management
and FDA regulations. FUJIFILM
Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc.
has utilized the robust
features and modules of
EtQ Reliance to coordinate
compliance efforts across
multiple sites, combine
crucial processes for quality
and environmental management,
and expand the quality and
compliance system for the
long term. |
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