QAD Redzone Reviews

From the start of our partnership with QAD Redzone, every individual we came in contact with was incredible to work with on multiple occasions. Their team does an excellent job of including your team in their constantly growing community. Also, the coaching that is offered in extremely beneficial to the successful implementation of the system, as well as offering insight to improve current manufacturing processes. Each coach has prior experience of their own in various manufacturing roles, which helps to not only understand your company's processes, but also to connect with the frontline workers that will be using Redzone daily. Our coach, [sensitive content hidden], was extremely helpful and incredible to work with each time she was on site. Lastly, the ability to both measure our performance and constantly communicate in real time are two of the major benefits we experience daily. The ease of communication from the essential front-line employees to the executive team instantly became easier and integral to our daily operations. By also showing a real time measurement of performance, each line consistently encourages one another to "stay in the green" and produce high quality products at extremely efficient rates. Overall, our implementation and partnership with Redzone has proven to be a beneficial addition!

I wouldn't necessarily consider this a con, but from the beginning, your team's Redzone "champion" will be required to gather a lot of information that is essential to allowing the system to function properly. The toughest information to gather involved the naming of downtime codes and establishing a correct TMAX rate. With the amount of experience Redzone has in the creation of these essential items, having a Redzone employee on-site for this phase would be extremely helpful. The gathering of this critical information would run much smoother with a Redzone presence on the production floor.

Redzone has provided us with a tool to help our front-line workers have a voice to communicate with their team. The use of Redzone has brought supporting departments together with our production team to work as one unit to solve problems and improve processes. Not only does Redzone provide a ton of useful data, but it has also provided a cultural shift and created a more positive, engaged environment.

We found that the install of Redzone was a little worrisome for our front-line workers. Before installing, some felt like it was a tracking tool for management to track employees, with a lot of meetings to discuss what we want to use the tool for (to give a voice to the workers and help them) the team really bought into it and became more positive. i would say that this is very important and that management at ALL levels should be engaged and supportive.

Redzone gives us unprecedented insights into our production process and helps us identify trends we can use to increase our productivity and efficiency. The compliance module helps us fulfill our regulatory obligations easily and without paper.

Importing products and equipment can be a bit quirky on the initial upload if you don't have everything in the exact format required. We had issues with this but it's likely because we haven't done many product conversions similar to this before.

Since Redzone is designed to work with Apple's iOS platform, everything 'just works' between the various supported devices. You can run the programs on computers with M-series processors but it would be really nice if there was a web based option for management users who can't/won't use an iPad.

Incorporating Redzone into my sanitation team's operations has revolutionized the way I manage accountability and communication within my team. One of the most remarkable aspects of Redzone is its ability to hold team members and management alike accountable for their actions and responsibilities. With its intuitive interface and real-time tracking features, every task and objective is transparent and accessible. This level of transparency fosters a culture of responsibility and ownership among team members, driving them to consistently perform at their best.

I would also like to personally thank [sensitive content hidden]
, our Redzone coach, whose dedication and expertise have been pivotal in integrating Redzone into our daily processes. [sensitive content hidden]
competence and innovative ideas have significantly helped our factory operations. Throughout the integration phase, [sensitive content hidden]
patience and guidance were invaluable, ensuring a smooth transition and instilling confidence among our team. [sensitive content hidden]
insights have boosted continuous improvement. We owe a great deal of our achievements to [sensitive content hidden]
professionalism and support. Thank you, [sensitive content hidden]
, for being an asset and driving force behind our journey towards operational excellence.

-Navigating the introduction of Redzone to team members unfamiliar with smartphones or tablets presented a considerable challenge. While I recognize that OEE serves as the primary metric within Redzone, I found it crucial to emphasize the significance of sanitation related features. These features have proven invaluable to our team's productivity and efficiency. Despite the initial difficulties in familiarizing everyone with the technology, the benefits of incorporating Redzone into our sanitation processes have been undeniable. Moving forward, I hope to continue highlighting the importance of sanitation related features within the platform.

Provide a better visualization of data tracking which can be use to help reduce product count loss in the future. This app improve the communication between shifts allowing everyone's voices are heard, from operators to maintenance and quality assurance. Shout out for coach [sensitive content hidden] for her superb guidedance and being impressively patient with our operators. The coach helps them become more eager to learn more about Redzone.

Not entirely a dislike about Redzone but some of our operators have no knowledge using new technology so they have difficulty learning the new software language. With the new compliance system coming in place, the operators also doing both paper batch record and EBR at the same time so it's creating more work for them, but hopefully this issue will end soon after we fully implement paperless system.

The way the compliance module so easily integrates into the productivity module made it a smooth transition to a paperless state.

Some of the templates and triggers provided were less than ideal. It would be nice to see product filters available for shift triggers within the compliance module.

Very accessible and intuitive. All of the workforce have responded positively.

We are using Power BI for analytics, as the in-house analytics is not configurable enough for our needs yet.

Redzone makes 3rd party audits easy. All of the documents generated are searchable is a number of ways depending on what your auditor is looking for. In the past we have have spent an hour or so gathering documents now with Redzone this process takes minutes.

There is some heavy lifting that needs to be done up front, however once that is done there is very minimal upkeep.

[sensitive content hidden] was super helpful in all aspects of implementation

People not using the tool provided until they realize the value in it

The OEE is updated instantly. I get to see all the chats and communication for the whole plant. This has help improve our inefficiencies and focused on our bottlenecks. The engagement is great with employees on the floor taking initiative to create action items.

The least is when action items are closed you are not able to see all action items closed to review history.

Easy to navigate and communicate with the entire plant or just one individual.

It often logs out and have to sign back in, sometimes needed to reset.

Training sessions and user froendly software.

Change is hard. Implementing changes. More of an employee issue than RZ.

I really appreciated the support from the Redzone Coach to help build the critical mass necessary for full adoption by the site team. It is often hard to get the momentum behind these deployment, and our coach was an expert in encouraging participation from resistant employees.

Only available on IOS. Lack of desktop interface.

The most impactful was the downtime recording that structured a sensitivity on stopping the machines for a non-valid reason. Communication improvement between departments and shifts was also a major benefit. It's a very user-friendly software for every level of employee. It was very easy to intergrade and everyone hooked up to it fairly fast.

As all integrations with new software comes with challenges but the support team and coach were very responsive.

We can see all our line data on a screen and it allows us to know what's happening on our line, what's causing the downtime.

At the moment, I don't use the system enough to dislike it.

Ease of use and training with [sensitive content hidden] was on point

So many things that can be done it’s hard to remember how to get to some options

Redzone helping us go paperless is going to save us time and help us keep track of what's on the floor real time.

There’s a lot to learn and I feel more training with [sensitive content hidden] would have helped.

Real-Time OEE monitoring. Digital data sheets and interactive checks. Chats between employees and management. Huddle groups and activities.

My only gripe is that Redzone is only available on iOS, but this is subjective as I've always been a Microsoft user.

I like that this is a platform for us to see what we have produced and away to communicate with shop floor

nothing it has very little flaws , even easy for people who are not tech savy to use with ease.