Building, Improving & Enhancing Quality Systems

Reducing Risk and Protecting Profits

Why Quality is so Important

If you're reading this, there's a very good chance your job title includes the word "Quality." Whether you're a Quality Manager or a Quality Assurance Coordinator, or you're someone who has a quality focus, it goes without saying you're responsible for executing your department's quality program and seeing that your colleagues use and adhere to your quality systems.

Quality is about Proactive Measures

EnviroLogix understands what you are trying to accomplish and why it's so important. Quality impacts so many aspects of your business:

  • Your brand's reputation is directly tied to how well quality assurance is carried out throughout your operations
  • Your customer's expectation are always high, and customer satisfaction is critical to long-term business relationships; in this extremely competitive market, quality standards are often the most essential factors to maintaining both
  • Continuous improvement: as you hold your organization to ever-tightening quality restrictions, it is essential to put in place proactive quality tools to deliver against these requirements
  • Increasing delivery and throughput speeds are directly correlated to the forward-thinking countermeasures to conduct your business accurately and without error

QuickCheck Sample Program provides both ISO 17034-compliant reference samples, as well as a customizable dashboard with operator information, tracking, trending and notifications. QuickCheck allows you to confirm the performance of your equipment and instruments, and gain insights into operator training; giving you an accurate picture of how well individuals follow proper techniques and protocols.

QuickScan II GMO and mycotoxin detection instrument for quality, accuracy, and efficiency - thumbnail photoWe created the QuickScan platform with your rigorous quality requirements at heart. QuickScan II is our newest GMO and mycotoxin detection instrument; designed to be efficient, accurate, and an important contributor to your quality systems. With built-in inventory tracking; programmable upper and lower cutoffs along with per-matrix settings; as well as maintenance reminders and enforcement; QuickScan II supports quality goals and audit-readiness.

What Can Go Wrong? Where Common Failures Occur...

There is so much at stake in your operation--and at the end of the day you're at the mercy of how well your team follows the guidelines of your quality plan. From sampling, to measuring, mixing, pipetting, timing, to cleaning and calibrating equipment, failures to follow the protocol can cause 25% variability in results...or more!

Points of Potential Grain Testing Protocol Failure

Grain Testing Protocol photo
  • Extraction
    • Inaccurate weighing
    • Scale not calibrated
    • Incorrect volume measurement
    • Inexact shake time
    • Poor shaking technique
  • Dilution
    • Pipettors not calibrated
    • Pipettors not properly cleaned
    • Improper pipetting technique
  • Running/Reading
    • Imprecise run time
    • Poorly cleaned reader
    • Reader not QC'd
    • Inconsistent recording
    • Tests not store properly
    • Expired test kits

QuickCheck Program from EnviroLogix helps proactively identify all of these different potential points of failure in grain testing.

Where to Go from Here?

  • Fill out the form at right to get a free, high-quality wall poster about common failure points and talk to an EnviroLogix representative about your quality needs
  • Learn more about QuickCheck Sample Program: more than just samples...including a dashboard and the expertise behind EnviroLogix decision-point diagnostics
  • See how the QuickScan platform, including QuickScan software and QuickScan II, the compact, efficient, accurate GMO and mycotoxin detection instrument made with your quality needs in mind

Learn More...

Get a free Common Points of Failure in Grain Testing wall poster mailed to you and learn more about QuickCheck and/or QuickScan by completing this form.

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