ETQ Reliance Customer Conference, part of Hexagon LIVE Global

Training will run 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM.

• ETQ Designer – Fundamentals 
  Showcasing what can be achieved in ETQ Designer without the need for deep technical skill. Leveraging configuration capabilities to create and modify forms, workflows, and user views. Using features such as Visibility Rules and Expression Builder for code-free automation.  
• ETQ Designer – Advanced
  Delve deeper into configurations that can improve processes in ETQ Reliance. This will involve exploring both underutilized settings in Designer and settings that can be optimized with a basic understanding of ETQScript.  
• ETQScript – Advanced  
  The ultimate test of ETQScript knowledge. Cover advanced ETQScript topics such as Task and ETQScript Profiles, leveraging Data Access Objects (DAO) in script, and advanced view configuration. Additionally learn more about best practices to ensure advanced scripts don’t negatively impact system performance. 

• CEO Keynote
• Vision in Action: Our Roadmap to Success
  Join Prashant Darisi, ETQ CPO and John Taylor, ETQ CTO, as they lay out the vision for ETQ Reliance. John and Prashant will give an update on the new capabilities and ongoing innovations you can now leverage as well as the direction for what’s coming next. 
• Tips and Tricks: Getting the Most Out of ETQ Reliance
  ETQ Reliance users always discover new ways to improve how they use ETQ Reliance. And we love to share these “tips and tricks” with all of you. Join us to hear about innovative approaches that can help you to optimize your use of ETQ Reliance. If you, too, have a special short cut or ETQ Reliance “hack”, let us know and we’ll highlight it! 
• Stories From The Quality Journey: From Basic Automation to Strategic Imperative
  Your quality journey is underway, and your eQMS has already demonstrated its ROI. Now, you’re ready to elevate quality to a more strategic level across the organization. Join this session to hear how other organizations have mapped their quality journey and leveraged their investment in ETQ Reliance to transform quality from a one-time effort into a strategic imperative that changes businesses. 
• ETQ Reliance Innovation Excellence Awards
  A hallmark of ETQ Reliance has always been its flexibility. Our customers continually find unique and innovative extensions to solve specific requirements. To honor these creative organizations, ETQ is once again proud to present the ETQ Reliance Innovation Excellence Awards. This year, you will hear about the latest innovations and have an opportunity to choose the winners by vote.

• From Data to Wow: Delivering Quality Through Advanced Analytics and AI
  Data flows in our businesses at an ever-increasing pace. New tools are constantly being introduced to try and analyze this data that’s swirling all around. How do we make the data make sense? How do you turn data into knowledge to make effective decisions? How can the data you already have help you make those decisions today? ETQ’s 2025 Pulse of Quality in Manufacturing survey shows one-third of quality organizations using AI today and another 49% planning  to leverage AI in the next 2 years.  
  In this session, we’ll cover some of the latest ETQ Reliance innovations in the field of analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning. And you’ll hear how you can make better data-informed decisions with the latest technology. 
• Eliminate Surprises: Using Predictive Analytics for Smarter Quality Management
  Data drives quality management, decision-making, and business outcomes. But what if the data you already collect could predict quality issues before they happen?   
  Join Acerta CEO Greta Cutulenco for a deep dive into the ETQ Reliance Predictive Quality Analytics solution and Closed-Loop Quality. Learn how AI-driven insights can transform your approach to quality. Discover real-world examples of manufacturers leveraging machine learning to prevent defects, improve efficiency, and enhance overall product reliability. 
• Connected Worker: Maintaining Quality Excellence in a Changing Workforce
  The average tenure in the manufacturing workforce has dropped 85% since 2019 causing a dramatic shift in skilled worker experience. In addition, workforce shortages add to the pressures of controlling quality costs and meeting production and quality goals.   
  Connected Worker technology can provide tools to mitigate these business risks and help you stay quality-focused from the shop floor to the top floor. Join this session to learn more about the integrated ETQ Reliance Connected Worker solution and how it can help close the skills/experience gap and drive continuous quality improvement.
• Your Future Awaits. Moving to ETQ Reliance NXG – The Time is Now
  Now is the time for seizing new opportunities and making 2025 the year of optimal Quality. Join this interactive session and learn how to support your current success and draw your future quality and safety goals closer with ETQ Reliance NXG. As an ETQ Reliance customer, you know the benefits provided by one of the leading eQMS systems on the market – but there’s even more to explore as you step into the future of quality management. The pace of customers embracing the future and moving to ETQ Reliance NXG is quickening as quality leaders realize the value of an eQMS that easily evolves with their rapidly changing world. needs. Find out how to join your peers in future-proofing your quality solution.
• Feature Blitz: What’s New in ETQ Reliance?
  ETQ continually adds new features and enhancements to deliver more value to your QMS investment. This session reviews the last year of releases to help you get the most out of ETQ Reliance. 
• Staying Secure: How to Comply with Advanced Security Requirements
  Complying with security requirements and frameworks is becoming mandatory for many organizations, especially those that sell to US government agencies, departments and other organizations. Hear how ETQ Reliance can help your organization comply with standards and requirements such as ISO 27001, ITAR, and FedRAMP, among others. 
• Implementation Best Practices for Beginners and Pros
  This session offers new and seasoned ETQers alike the chance to explore how customers successfully implement ETQ Reliance to transform their quality management system. We’ll walk through best practices, from assessing existing processes to leveraging ETQ Reliance automation and workflows. Learn about key challenges and optimization strategies, and gain insights into best practices and lessons learned.
• Safety Problems are Quality Problems: A Customer Panel
  Nearly half of manufacturers reported in a recent ETQ survey that safety incidents increased over the past 5 years. At ETQ, we see a direct correlation between improved safety and improved quality. Further, safety incidents are typically a hidden cost of poor quality. In this session, we’ll hear from ETQ Reliance customers that are using the system to track safety incidents, reduce their recurrence and improve overall manufacturing efficiency, employee experiences and quality.
• Supply Chain Quality=Product Quality: Make Your Suppliers Part of Your Quality Processes
  47% of manufacturers link product recalls to supply chain issues. So, how do you gain visibility into your suppliers to crush recalls? Easy! Turn your eQMS into your superpower by transforming the supply chain with data and insights to enable better quality decisions. Hear from your peers how they use ETQ Reliance today to better manage their supply chains and ensure supplier quality.
• Ensure Quality and Compliance in a Changing Landscape
  In 2025, 44% of manufacturers plan to invest in quality tools to improve compliance and avoid fines, manufacturing disruptions and productivity loss. Hear how customers are demonstrating compliance and protecting their bottom lines with ETQ Reliance as the regulatory and economic climate changes. Find out how to ensure your teams are trained and up to date on ISO, OSHA, NSPA, EPA and customer standards.
• Delivering Quality ROI: Evaluating Quality Investments by Understanding their Bottom Line Impact
  What delivers an average 330% three-year ROI and generates annual benefits of $665k or more? ETQ Reliance! Did we get your attention? Speaking the “language of business” is exactly how you, too, can capture the interest of key stakeholders when making the case to expand your use of ETQ Reliance. When competing for funding within your organization, a strategic business case – backed by real numbers and a proven ROI – gets you to “yes” faster and more effectively.
• Quality Cost$ – Poor Quality Costs More
  48% of manufacturers report the cost to rectify a product recall ranges from $10M to $49.99M. So, how do you pivot quality management from a cost center to a profit center? By leveraging ETQ Reliance to analyze data and apply the formula – CoQ = CoGQ + CoPQ – you can protect your bottom line. In this session, you’ll hear how ETQ Reliance customers are tracking and addressing the cost of poor quality today.
• ETQ Reliance Enterprise Integrations: Make Your eQMS an Equal Partner in the Corporate Tech Stack
  Most organizations have multiple enterprise software systems that manage everything from quality and manufacturing, to finance and customer relations. Many of these systems are independent of each other and do not share data or critical information that would deliver vast efficiencies to the company.
  In the 2025 ETQ Pulse of Quality in Manufacturing survey, 35% of organizations have set integrating the tech stacks between the shop floor and the enterprise as a strategic goal. . This panel will show you how can you create an environment in which data-driven, connected quality delivers true business value We’ll explore best practices from customers who have integrated a variety of enterprise systems with ETQ Reliance to create that added the added value.