2025 Resolutions for Quality Champions: Automate, Optimize, Lead

Welcome to the latest edition of the ETQ Reliance newsletter, “Quality Creates,” and the first edition for 2025. This monthly newsletter serves as your source of information on what’s happening in the world of quality management. 

This month our focus is resolutions for quality champions for 2025.

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Resolve to Automate Your Quality Management in the New Year

Why not make 2025 the year you finally automate your quality processes?

A cloud-based, automated, electronic quality management system (QMS) is the solution to prevent quality issues before they arise. 8 Best Practices for First Time QMS Buyers helps guide you through what you should look for when investing in a QMS by showing you:

• The benefits of a QMS, including streamlined operations, reduced costs, increased product revenue and minimized risk of non-compliance. 
• The financial advantages of automating your quality management system, with an average ROI of 23%.
• Implementation best practices, such as goal setting, defining requirements and communicating the benefits to key stakeholders.

Are you ready to invest in a QMS that drives results? Download now.

Kick Off 2025 by Decreasing Your Cost of Poor Quality 

Don’t start the new year with ongoing spiraling poor quality costs, like defects, scrap and waste that will continue to hinder your organization’s growth potential.

Understanding the balance between the cost of maintaining good quality and the cost of poor quality is crucial for your organization’s continued success.

By learning how poor quality affects your organization and how to squash it, you’ll also learn:

• How to better understand quality cost and quantify the expense of scrap, rework and/or recalls that lead to the cost of poor quality with the formula: Cost of Quality = Cost of Good Quality + Cost of Poor Quality.
• Tips to quickly identify and address issues with automated corrective actions, minimizing costly delays.
• How to reduce human error with accurate, real-time data and streamlined workflows.

Discover the 5 Ways a QMS Reduces Cost of Poor Quality and how your organization can, save time across the organization, increase margins and protect your bottom line with a cloud-based, automated QMS in 2025.

Don’t Get Left Behind: 2025 Will be the Year of AI and Machine Learning

47% of organizations are planning to implement AI in the next two years – those who don’t adapt may be left behind.  

AI and machine learning are transforming quality management and driving continuous improvement in manufacturing by: 

• Predicting and preventing defects before they occur to maintain superior product quality.
• Allowing for early detection and intervention, increasing efficiency and making a positive impact on critical production KPIs including minimizing scrap and rework, reducing downtime, shortening time to market and reducing the overall cost of poor quality. 
• Turning investments and data you already have into actionable insights that can solve complex and expensive quality issues, allowing for faster decision making.

Don’t fall behind as AI and machine learning continue to advance in the world of quality. Learn more about how these advancements can help improve your quality management.

Give Your Shop Floor a Voice in 2025

Is 2025 the year you connect your shop floor to your top floor?

In today’s highly competitive marketplace, quality is a cornerstone of success. Businesses must always meet and exceed customer expectations to create lasting relationships. Integrating a connected worker solution with an advanced eQMS supports a holistic approach to quality beyond simple compliance and quality control provides a seamless “shop floor to the top floor” solution for your organization, making it possible to achieve organizational improvements including:

• 21% decrease in downtime.
• 72% reduction in training time.
• 18% increase in productivity.

Learn how to amplify your efforts by giving a voice to the shop floor, understand the top four benefits of integrating quality across your organization and how to improve quality, reduce scrap and rework costs and accelerate time to market. Check out this guide and start connecting your warehouse workers today.