A culture of quality starts with step one of the product and service design process.
The ETQ Reliance® New Product Introduction software application features 5 apps that help make quality job one on day one.
Control Plans and APQP reduce the complexity of product quality planning for customers and suppliers by allowing customers to easily communicate their product quality planning requirements to their suppliers.
APQP defines the required inputs and outputs of each stage of the product development and new product introduction process.
Everything you need to develop, configure and manage new product specifications from raw and intermediate materials to finished product and packaging.
Drive efficient sourcing and inventory optimization processes across the supply chain.
Eliminate or reduce failures using NPI software with a FMEA application. FMEA is a step-by-step approach for identifying all possible failures (e.g. design, manufacturing or assembly process) of a product or service from the conceptual stages of design and throughout the life of the product or service to achieve continuous improvement.
The ETQ Reliance FMEA app helps you make better quality planning decisions by enabling analysis of product and process design reducing the time devoted to study failure effects and their mitigation. The end result is better and safer new products to market faster.
Food safety is a growing concern in a dynamic world. Automated HACCP processes give your organization the power of knowing that the food you deliver to customers is safe.
The ETQ Reliance HACCP app is dynamically linked to preventive control processes such as Hazard Prevention, Sanitation and Hygiene Documentation and Training, Environmental Monitoring and Food Allergen Control.
Ensure employee safety and minimize nonconformances by actively managing equipment maintenance with automated scheduling, notifications and reporting of any piece of equipment in your manufacturing environment.
As I became more familiar with ETQ Reliance, I realized that it’s more than just a quality system—it’s a platform to create new applications from scratch or, quite easily, ‘translate’ many older applications into the Reliance environment.
Companies that don’t factor a potential delay into a new product introduction are leaving themselves open to preventable quality pain points and, potentially, a hit to more than just the balance sheet.
Product recalls may be the least welcome part of the quality landscape, but companies that don’t put the right strategies in place to prevent these events happening are likely to keep repeating the same compliance and poor quality mistakes.
In highly competitive industries, product differentiation isn’t enough to win new customers and gain market share. It’s all about the customer experience; meeting or exceeding their expectations is the new path to growth. Your product or service is irrelevant if you don’t have loyal customers.
