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New Ways to Validate Your QMS with Speed and Efficiency

ETQ offers a validation approach and solution options to deliver expedited validation with minimal disruption. Our solution looks at defining the intended use and potential risk in a system, while minimizing the validation effort by using the “least burdensome approach.” ETQ’s validation offerings for life science companies are fully aligned with regulations and industry guidance and offer a comprehensive approach based on guidance like GAMP 5.

Stericycle Recall Index: The Pandemic Impact

The Second Edition of Stericycle’s 2020 Recall Index offers invaluable insight into the ways that companies operate within the regulatory compliance environment. This year, in particular, we’re able to see which industries are most resilient as the global pandemic ravages supply chains and forces facility closures around the world.

7 Quality Management Principles Under ISO 9001:2015

With ISO 9001:2015 comes a push for leaders to make quality a top priority for every employee—not just the ones directly involved in quality management. But what does it really mean to make quality an underlying part of all business operations?

Audits in the Time of Coronavirus

Travel is restricted, companies have moved to virtual work wherever possible, and the world is attempting to maintain some normalcy in the face of a global pandemic. While the long-term economic impact on supply chains has yet to be seen, there is still an obligation on the part of companies to attempt to maintain supplier quality activities, especially audits.

The Importance of Quality Management in the Medical Device Industry

As the world struggles to come up with a treatment for the COVID-19 virus, it’s important to remember all the amazing innovations taking place in the medical device and life sciences world.

Top 5 Steps to Prepare for Hosting a Successful Quality Audit

We often hear, a picture is worth a thousand words, but we forget that a word is worth a thousand feelings. In just one word you can capture many different emotions, aspects, and memories. Take for example the word boat: maybe we remember that first time we went fishing with a family member or that time that seasickness ruined last year’s cruise. The emotions captured by a word depend greatly on our experiences and memories the word conjures.

5 Stats on the ROI of Quality as a Strategic Business Initiative

The goal of our survey of 300 C-level executives, quality and IT managers in the Life Sciences, Food & Beverage and Manufacturing industries was to better understand the state of quality management today. We also gained insight into how organizations in these industries are investing in quality both in 2020 and the coming 3-to-5 years.

ETQ: “Best in Category” in Quality Management Software

There are few things more rewarding in business than being recognized for what you do best. When you pour your heart and soul into it every day, there’s just something about being recognized as among the best of the best for your core competency that makes you even more committed to your mission.

4 Stats That Show How Quality Management Impacts Product Recalls

This is the the latest in a series of blog posts detailing results from ETQ's 2020 industry trends and attitudes survey on the changing  role of quality as a strategic business initiative. When we started surveying businesses in the Life Sciences, Food & Beverage and Manufacturing industries, our goal was to get a better understanding of the state of quality management—not just in 2020, but over the next three to five years.

2020 Industry Survey: The Rise of Quality as a Strategic Initiative

There is a growing change in the way organization view the role of quality, according a new survey that  ETQ and Salloway & Associates recently completed. Whether driven by growing global competition, a dynamic regulatory and compliance environment, or market and internal forces, companies today view quality as a strategic business initiative and less of a perfunctory obligation.

ETQ Salutes Customers Recognized for Their Pandemic Work

At ETQ, we spend a lot of time thinking about our “customers’ customer.” Today, in the midst of the Coronavirus pandemic, it is conceivable that some of our customers’ customers are, in fact, every single one of us. From life science and healthcare companies of all kinds delivering badly needed supplies and researching potential treatment and vaccine options, to “traditional” manufacturing companies modifying their production lines to build healthcare equipment, our respect and admiration for our customers grows daily.

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