COVID-19: What I Learned About the Value of EHSQ at the Doctor’s Office
Just over a month ago, I attended a medical appointment at my family physician’s office. I arrived early, but when I got off the elevator and proceeded down the hallway toward the office, I noticed a table set up immediately adjacent to the door. On the table sat a bottle of hand sanitizer and a […]
When Parker Hannifin Met Cority
If you are an industrial engineering guru, you may be quite familiar with Parker Hannifin, a global manufacturer of motion-control components and industrial systems. However, you may not know that Parker Hannifin is also a shining case study of how implementing a sound quality system, deployed many years ago in the company’s hydraulic and pneumatic […]
CDP Reporting 2020 – Frequently Asked Questions
This week, the disclosure platform for CDP 2020 officially opened for companies. Many organisations across all sectors worldwide will be invited to report their environmental data through CDP, some for the first time. Below are the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions about CDP reporting in 2020. It’s our first time responding […]
Top five issues facing aerospace and defense
If you take a step back and look at the aerospace and defense industry as a whole, it is easy to say that manufacturers have weathered the storm of the Great Recession. A deep dive, however, reveals much more complexity and several industry trends you may not know about. To clear the air, this blog […]
How to Address Quality Management Issues in the Manufacturing Industry
The most common quality management issues facing the manufacturing industry today are likely a reflection of those experienced in your company. With ad hoc processes and cultural barriers, improving quality issues in production and operations management can be a company-wide challenge. In today’s competitive global environment, quality has never mattered more. So, how can your […]
What is the Cost of Good Quality?
To enable integrated quality management principles throughout your organization, you should keep the cost of good quality in focus. Manufacturing enterprises today spend a great deal of time and effort aligning quality management data with the right enterprise software and infrastructure. Not surprisingly, the high-profile costs of poor quality have influenced the deployment of IT […]
CDP 2020 Climate Change Questionnaire – Changes for the Financial Services Sector
CDP have released their 2020 questionnaire on Climate Change, aimed at helping companies disclose their current emissions and actions around climate change mitigation and adaptation. The deadline for submission has been extended in light of COVID-19 to 26 August 2020 and the Online Response System (ORS) is now open for users to start entering their information. Cority is […]
Looking for the Helpers in the time of COVID-19
These are strange times. How many times have you heard that in recent weeks? This innocuous statement has become a colloquial way of acknowledging the global COVID-19 pandemic – “strange” becomes a euphemism for “terrifying”, something that’s easier to say because it sidesteps our acute anxiety while still addressing the fact that, yes, these times are messed […]
Top Benefits of Conducting Internal Quality Audits
Too many organizations today have fallen into a complacent — if not wholly jaded or cynical — attitude toward internal quality audits. The majority of organizations today seek to manage their audits holistically. This includes the financial domain and adhering to the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), for instance. From this high-level view of […]
Cority’s Response to COVID-19: Navigating Through Together
Cority is committed to proactively communicating potential impacts to our customers, so we’d like to address today’s announcement that the Canadian and United States governments have agreed to temporarily close border crossings to ‘non-essential traffic.’ Despite this announcement, through remote work we are fully operational across our range of services. Providing ongoing service and support […]