9fbtechreview.comMAY 2024When we talk about quality, food safety, etc., we must bear in mind that there are several variables that directly impact the performance and effectiveness of an organization's quality culture.All sectors of the company need to be engaged and committed to this purpose.We do this by initially making excellence in quality and food safety part of the company's values.The challenge for the quality team is to implement a customized culture for each sector of the company, with simple, straightforward procedures that perfectly meet the quality objectives. Each sector of the company must know what to do and the impacts in the event of deviations and non-compliance with the established procedures.Monitoring, performance indicators, well-established and deployed targets for all levels, and frequent audits guarantee compliance with the guidelines and quick and effective corrections in the event of deviations.One Technology Trend Used to Facilitate Quality Monitoring and ImprovementToday, technology is increasingly helping us to improve the quality controls of our processes, resulting in defect-free products.The trend is to have sensors monitoring products in real-time and industrial automation correcting deviations automatically without human intervention.With these resources, we have seen process deviations measured in ppb (parts per billion) and no longer in % (percentage).Significant savings in the consumption of inputs and ingredients are clearly observed in industries that use this technology, savings in rework, waste, a reduction in the number of returns, and customer and consumer complaints.Advice, Suggestions, Warnings, Etc., to ProfessionalsQuality professionals have a systemic vision of the business. Know the impact of quality on all sectors of the company and vice versa.Knowing the process in detail to draw up procedures in simple language that employees understand and comply with, knowing why.Always monitor the progress of quality, using key indicators and especially in person at the process level, to help solve problems, not just identify them.Quality professionals cannot simply draw up procedures, create complicated strategies, and disseminate them without the proper deployment and frequent monitoring of activities. Quality professionals cannot simply draw up procedures, create strategies that are complicated to understand, and disseminate them without the proper deployment and frequent monitoring of activities
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