Manufacturing Magazine November 2015 | Page 11

INDUSTRIALISED IT QUALITY reporting and root-cause analysis , so that a manufacturer has the ability to learn and respond quickly to an IT production issue with details on exactly how a code error managed to get to production , the proposed fix and how any reoccurrence will be prevented .
IT quality is set to rise to prominence in manufacturing as results in extensive data corruption .
Only an effective quality regime will produce the business confidence to apply patches , hotfixes , upgrades and new functionality to different parts of the interconnected IT estate . Being able to change enhances the ability of an organisation to maintain or gain competitive advantage .
In essence , quality enables change

“ Quality is also about effective reporting and root-cause analysis so that a manufacturer has the ability to learn and respond quickly to an IT production issue ” more organisations attempt to integrate their core IT applications ; doing so provides significant return on investment but can also substantially increase the risks posed when changing an application .

For example , an isolated ERP application that fails can only impact the business processes linked to that system . However , this one failure could cause utter devastation throughout the entire IT estate if the one failure in an ERP system that is connected to other applications and change enables business agility .
Automation All industry sectors , including manufacturing , are increasingly using software quality to support new product or service launches . Techniques such as specialist
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