QAD Redzone Connected Workforce

QAD Acquires Redzone, Empowering the Frontline Workforce

QAD has acquired Redzone, provider of the #1 Connected Workforce Solution for manufacturers. This acquisition bolsters our customers' efforts to seamlessly optimize efficiency, agility and resilience by connecting and empowering the frontline workforce. With real-time, social mobile communication, Redzone solutions connect and unify team members across departments to create ‘one team’ working with purpose.

QAD customers will benefit from additional value creation achieved through enhanced workforce engagement, reduced staff turnover and increased productivity, thus delivering on the promise of digital transformation in manufacturing. Redzone customers will benefit from the ability to roll out the solutions to their plants worldwide. The combined QAD and Redzone solutions provides customers with seamless planning and execution from the shopfloor to the top floor, and from supplier to end customer.

On average, manufacturers with Redzone have increased productivity by 22%, improved employee engagement by 74% and reduced staff turnover by 32%.

Product and Roadmap Overview

Redzone's Connected Workforce Solution perfectly augments QAD's vision for the Adaptive Enterprise and Digital Manufacturing. QAD's vertical expertise in Automotive, Life Sciences, Food and Beverage, Consumer Packaged Goods and Industrial and High Tech markets will be leveraged to further enhance and tailor the value proposition of Redzone solutions for each industry. QAD Process Intelligence will provide additional insight in how workforce related processes can be optimized.

Redzone provides the following solutions to manufacturers to improve productivity, increase retention and drive empowerment:

  • Collaboration
    • Huddle around real-time data and focus on the right problems
    • Conduct root cause analyses and implement actions
    • Have frontline team connected to plant leadership who remove barriers for problem solving

  • Productivity
    • Identify systemic problems through in-app reporting and advanced analytics
    • Enable and encourage frontline teams to conduct root cause analysis using 5-why and fishbone diagrams through Redzone digital kaizen
    • Implement high impact improvements and track results to close the loop and ensure sustainability

  • Compliance
    • Inspect what is expected for safety and compliance
    • Conduct weighted audits
    • Go paperless with configurable checklists for safety inspections, housekeeping, pre-flight checks and every imaginable task

  • Reliability
    • Prevent instead of fix through Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in a box
    • Transfer equipment care to operators and remove the tension between production and maintenance

  • Learning
    • Empower frontline workers with transparency of skills required to progress within a manufacturing organization
    • Access training through multimedia from expert workers who actually do the job
    • Enable new skills acquisition through real-time digital skills matrices, learning packs and mentoring-on- demand

Join Us for Our Webinar

If you’re interested in learning more about these solutions for your business, please join us for a QAD Redzone webinar on Wednesday, February 8th at 10AM central. The webinar will highlight the vision for QAD Redzone, an overview of the QAD Redzone Connected Workforce Solution and the significant outcomes customers have achieved.

Questions?

More information on this acquisition and the future roadmap will be shared as it becomes available. For questions or if you’re interested in learning more about these solutions for your business, please contact [email protected].