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[Foodie_2110]

Hello fellow QAs, I am just being curious here.

 

If you are working as QA in the food industry, what would be on your wish list as a potential game-changer for your QA department? Or are there any technologies or innovative equipment out there that you’d love to have?

 

For me, when I was working in Chocolate manufacturing, my wish was to have an x-ray machine (it's not very innovative, I know).

[Scampi]

A do it all ERP without work arounds!

[G M]

We don't have any big gaps I'd like to fill, but it would be nice if they would use the tech we have now properly.

[krissy.cwell]

I'd love to have automation at the entry way to the production plant that scans your hands and doesn't allow the door to the plant to even open if hand washing isn't done effectively. That would be pretty cool! Not likely to happen anytime soon but a girl can dream. 

[GMO]

I'd like Scampi's system as well.  So many times when it's not done properly it's only through change management bad practices not because the system couldn't have done it.

 

For me, I'm not a mad fan of AI as I think the applications are becoming far more "police" than anything which is encouraging, but if there was a way to take out the huge amount of admin from Technical which didn't need a huge amount of admin to create, that would be wonderful.  Almost as if a (trusted) AI system could map all of our day activities and take out the boring stuff.  I know some of it is there already and some could be but in my last role I spent far too much time creating presentation decks, writing up audits, chasing audit non conformity, reading standards and interpreting them.  There is so much genuine non value add time in Technical.  It's bonkers.  We were trying to work on a system to interface to all the retailer platforms for specs over 10 years ago.  I'm not sure that's fully been solved yet for example.