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Quality
Management Software Solutions
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Energy is in constant demand in our world today. Whether it is to power automobiles, heat homes, or launch a spacecraft, energy and energy resources are required. As the cost of energy resources continue to rise, it is important to ensure the safety and quality of the energy produced.
Compliance to quality management
standards such as ISO
9000, ISO
14001 and OHSAS 18001
are most important to organizations
looking to conform to Environmental
Protection agency (EPA)
standards. EtQ has developed
a Quality
Management Software
system to help maintain
quality to these initiatives,
while providing a flexible
workflow platform to
adapt to changing business
processes, without programming.
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Challenges
Facing the Energy Industry |
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Collaborative,
Enterprise Environment
Large energy industries with multiple
divisions typically have independent,
hybrid systems in place. Bridging
the gap between these systems
is inefficient in the long-term,
and ultimately will require expensive
customizations to link the enterprise.
Re-routing documents, meeting
to discuss integration strategy,
and IT man-hours in customizations
result in lost time and money.
EtQ's Quality
Management Software is designed
to incorporate the whole enterprise
in collaborating at the enterprise
level, while maintaining each
division's independent business
workflow.
The result is a unified Quality
Management system that allows
for each division to collaborate
with the enterprise.
Unified
Quality Process
Too often, business processes
are disconnected, with complaint
handling forms, SOPs and the like
not connected to the next phase
in the record's life cycle. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
allows the process to be linked
automatically and intelligently.
Complaint
handling forms are assessed,
investigated, and opened as a
Corrective
Action if needed. SOPs are
linked to the employee
training database, and assignments
are sent. Risk
Assessment tools assess the
risk of records throughout the
process. This unified process
for handling Quality
Management issues results
in an efficient system, where
no time is lost and no problem
overlooked.
Business
System Integration
As more and more business systems
are implemented in an energy organization,
the ability to communicate between
these systems becomes difficult.
As a result, crucial processes
are disjointed and often rely
on manual "jumping"
between systems, which can lead
to inefficiencies in the process.
EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features a robust integration
layer that allows for information
to be passed to and from external
systems, widening the scope of
the quality process to include
ERP, MRP, MES and other business
systems.
Advanced
Search and Reporting
Having a system store your documents
and records is often not enough
to ensure quality within a business.
The ability to rapidly retrieve
documents and generate reports
on the state of the quality operations
is a key need within the energy
industry. EtQ's
Quality Management Software
features advanced tools to search
for documents, create custom views
within the application, and generate
template or ad-hoc
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