Brian Brooks

Brian Brooks has more than 25 years of leadership experience in manufacturing software and technology and is an expert in the management, design, and development of quality management systems. Brooks has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and he worked at Ford Motor Co. for five years as an engineer before co-founding his own quality management software company. Brooks joined QAD in 2012 and serves as senior manager of product management for QAD EQMS. His goal is to develop solutions that have rapid time-to-value and are highly adopted and easy to use, which allows customers to prevent quality issues up front and reduce repeat occurrences.

Thu, 01/05/2023 - 12:03
Avoid the ‘Blockbuster Effect’ in Life Sciences With Preventive QualityLife science firms are facing their own disruptive moment
Thu, 08/15/2024 - 12:02
This year, the Medical Device Innovation Consortium held an Excellence in Quality Summit where it was promised that participants would receive a “unique opportunity to learn adoptable cutting-edge practices to maximize the impact of investing in…
Buying Quality at Its Lowest Price Five key strategies for designing quality from the start
Tue, 04/04/2023 - 12:03
Producing high-quality products is crucial for any business. But designing quality into the product from the start is the only significant way a business can improve its product margins. When you use detection methods and find a nonconformance, you’…
Is Bad Quality Adding to Your Margin Pressures?We talk prevention, but do detection
Thu, 01/05/2023 - 12:03
Manufacturers spend too much on quality issues. Some issues they are blind to, some are due to poor detection, and some are the costs incurred when issues escape to a customer. It seems like in recent years the challenges have been great in both…