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 is a great way to promote competition among employees we constantly are trying to beat each hour and the previous shift the real time productivity tracking shows us how we are doing allowing me to figure out when and where we can improve

It has some glitches. In all fairness it could be the sensors not the program. But it can be a pain to get back online when it does stop working.

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.

It is a great communication tool. I use the "Translate with Google" feature quite a bit.

I think we are a difficult area/location to get to and service. There were issues with scheduling in the beginning but it worked out fine.

Saco Foods prides ourselves in the programs we've implemented over the years to help employees feel engated, food safety, food quality and overall systems. My position involves Supplier Approval Programs so I have toured many facilities, and starting seeing Redzone pop up. I was intrigued. In further research I felt it was a great program to implement. We had no idea how great it would be. One of the most meaningful benfits of Redzone is the operator engagement. Putting all savings aside (and we have seen a 54% increase in OEE), our employees feel a part of the program and the company. They take ownership in themselves and in the company. People care and want you to know that, and they want to feel they're a productive part of the process. We cannot say enough good things about Redzone.

I have literally sat here and thought about how to answer this for 10 minutes. I come up with absolutely nothing. There have been no downsides from our experience!

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.

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.

Redzone is an effective manufacturing software solution that streamlines production processes and enhances efficiency. Its key features include robust production planning, and comprehensive quality control tools. The user-friendly interface makes it accessible for all staff levels, while strong reporting capabilities provide valuable insights for decision-making.

While Redzone offers a wide range of features and functionality, its complexity can be a bit overwhelming for new users.

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

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

Redzone is an amazing communication tool bringing all of operations together.

We are still scratching the surface with Redzone, but I would like for more customization to the core software design for our company needs.

Training sessions and user froendly software.

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

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.

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.

User friendly
Information is clear and easy to understand on the displays

Haven’t really experienced acon woth Redzone so far.

It seems to be more streamlined than our current model

Not Custom to plant, would be nice to have access to the coding