The key to good quality is creating a solid foundation for your organization to manage quality processes with minimal manual effort. To do so, you’ll need a strong QMS platform that will adapt to your changing business needs, drive user adoption and deliver ROI.
The FDA and the European Union have announced upcoming changes to their medical device reporting (MDR) standards. In order to remain compliant, avoid fines and continue to do business in the US and EU without penalty, you and your team should fully understand how to comply. Are you fully prepared for the new MDR regulations?
This new Gartner research assesses the QMS software market and summarizes QMS applications and their providers. This new report includes how COVID-19 has prompted organizations to take an introspective look at their quality organizations, important features to look for in a QMS software vendor and more.
As a leader in quality management software, ETQ has a unique perspective on the importance of quality management as a strategic business driver. Learn 7 “game changing” approaches to quality management that serve as competitive differentiators.
Historically, quality has been seen as a tactical compliance function – essentially, a “policing” and cost center for organizations. Today, savvy organizations understand that quality is a strategic business initiative and a catalyst to profitability.
Remote work is here to stay. COVID-19 certainly accelerated the trend, but even after the pandemic ends, the majority of businesses plan to allow some or all of their employees to continue to work from home. Learn Software as a Service (SaaS) is a logical solution for a semi-remote workforce and why 2021 is the right time to make the switch.
Given its global footprint and strict regulatory compliance imperatives, Novo Nordisk sought to harmonize and standardize their Quality Management System (QMS) in order to reap greater process speed and efficiency, specifically with regard to management of change.
Many companies have gone through implementing QMS software. Gartner analyzed reviews of QMS software on its free peer review and ratings platform, Peer Insights.
Quality 4.0 is now a well-understood and adopted initiative across many industries and provides quality leaders an industry-aligned framework and language to drive step-change performance benefits that stretch across the entire value chain.
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?
The shift to risk-based thinking under ISO 9001:2015 is supported by 7 key quality management principles.
For many, vertical farming represents the future of agriculture. This method of farming makes use of the tall and narrow urban footprint to produce vast amounts of food while using 95% less water and 99% less land than traditional farms.
GE Transportation, a Wabtec company, manufactures equipment for the railroad, marine, mining, drilling and energy generation industries and is the largest producer of diesel-electric locomotives for both freight and passenger applications in North America. In 2010, GE Transportation began to experience product failures in their locomotives that made it out to customers in the field. The failures were chronic and were costing GE upwards of $100 million per year.
