Quality Assurance Blog Posts & Updates

Why Packaging Compliance is Critical for CPG Success
When packaging compliance fails, the consequences are immediate and severe. But when managed correctly, it becomes a strategic asset that protects your bottom line and accelerates your growth.
The Complete Guide to CPG Packaging Compliance
In the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, your product’s packaging is more than a container; it's a promise to the consumer. It communicates your brand’s identity, values, and, most importantly, critical information about what’s inside.
How AI is Transforming Label Compliance for CPG Brands
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved beyond buzzwords and is now a critical tool for operational efficiency. AI label compliance is no longer just a futuristic concept; it is a practical solution revolutionizing how brands manage their packaging workflows.
Undeclared Allergens: The Top Cause of CPG Recalls
As consumer packaged goods (CPG) brands expand their SKU portfolios, enter new markets, and accelerate product launches, the systems that once ensured packaging compliance begin to fracture. Manual workflows that worked for 20 SKUs rarely hold up at 200.
Top 5 Challenges in CPG Label Compliance and How to Overcome Them
CPG label compliance is the gatekeeper between a successful product launch and a costly recall. Yet, the path to a compliant label is riddled with obstacles, ranging from shifting government regulations to the sheer volume of data required for every SKU.
The ROI of Prepress Quality Automation: Real Efficiency Gains You Can Measure
When you integrate automation via an API into your workflow, the return on investment (ROI) isn't abstract. It shows up directly on your balance sheet through hours reclaimed, reprints avoided, and capacity increased.
3 Prepress Quality Problems You Thought Were “Normal” That APIs Solve
An Application Programming Interface (API) allows different software systems to communicate and share data seamlessly. For prepress, this means connecting your workflow tools to automate tasks that were once tedious and prone to human error.
The Future of “Zero-Touch” Quality Control in Print & Packaging
Imagine a production floor where errors are caught before a human eye ever scans a proof. This isn't science fiction; it is the rapidly arriving reality of the print and packaging industry. The solution lies in a concept that promises...
10 Common API Questions (Answered Simply)
APIs are the backbone of our digital world. They help apps communicate, share data, and deliver seamless experiences. If terms like “API integration” seem confusing, don’t worry, you don’t need to be a developer to get started.
How Embedding Quality Checks Directly Into Your Workflow Eliminates Bottlenecks
For years, prepress teams have accepted this trade-off as a necessary evil of quality control in print and packaging. But teams shouldn't have to choose between fast and flawless.
Why APIs Will Be the Backbone of Prepress Quality in 2026
From eliminating bottlenecks to empowering your team to scale operations fearlessly, APIs are fast becoming the backbone for next-generation quality control in print and packaging.
APIs Explained for Non-Technical Teams: A Practical Beginner’s Guide
APIs connect systems to automate routine tasks, reduce errors, and empower your team to focus on what matters most. Whether you’re just starting to explore automation or ready to scale, a well-chosen API can be transformative...
Choosing the Right Preflight Software: Features, Benefits, and ROI
A pharmaceutical company ships 500,000 labels with unreadable dosage instructions because nobody caught a font size violation before production.
Want to Ensure Quality Control in Print? Inline Inspection is Just What You Need
Inline inspection provides a modern solution, delivering accurate, real-time monitoring to ensure consistent quality control in print.
Production Quality Control: A Step-By-Step Implementation Guide
When a packaging company ships labels with incorrect barcodes or a printer delivers cartons with color variations that don’t match brand standards, the fallout goes far beyond immediate reprints.
Why Document Automation Software is Essential in Regulated Industries
Brandon Malz, CEO of market-leading quality inspection software, GlobalVision, gives his insights as to why document automation software is essential for success in today’s business climate.
Boosting Revenue With Document Automation
Key Sections What is Document Automation? Why is Document Automation Important for Businesses? The “Automation Curve” Quiz: Where is Your Business…
A Beginner’s Guide to Sustainable Packaging
While “going green” may be a proud point for many businesses in this day and age, in the world of packaging and design, it’s not necessarily going far enough. Instead, it’s all about being sustainable.
How Document Comparison Software Improves Customer Experiences and Builds Trust
Document comparison software is one of those powerful tools that helps ensure the accuracy of all products that go out to market – from the inside out! Read on to explore how document comparison software [...]
How GlobalVision Helps Hero Group Eliminate Human Error in Their Quality Control Process
Hero Spain decided to test GlobalVision’s inspection technology. The results of the inspections showed that it was very much possible to automatically proofread and inspect files with few false positives […]
RCount - The Next-Generation Automated Counting System
RCount by GlobalVision is the market-leading automated counting system and technology that ensures compliance and traceability of sensitive materials. Your teams can now count your critical assets with 100% accuracy in record time.
Ensure Your Labels Meet all FDA Drug Labeling Requirements with Automated Quality Control
For highly regulated industries like pharmaceuticals, following FDA drug labeling requirements is one of the most crucial aspects of the product lifecycle.
Our Biggest Release Yet. Verify 2022.2.
Verify is inspection technology reinvented—a web-based proofreading platform that ensures that you produce error-free content with the utmost ease, accuracy, and efficiency.
A Deep Dive into Enterprise Pharma’s Content Efficiency Problem
To avoid recalls caused by content errors, companies must inspect the artwork at every step of production, ensuring the accuracy of the text, labels, design, braille content, and barcodes.
GlobalVision Advances to the Silver Certified Level of Veeva's Technology Partner Program
Proofreading critical content accurately and at scale is a major concern in the Enterprise Pharma and life sciences industry though, currently, content and documentation checks are still mainly done manually.
8 Strategic Techniques to Quickly Get Your New Product to Market
To be successful in a consumer-driven business, it’s essential to deliver quality, innovative products, and fast! Accelerating your new product’s time-to-market can help your brand become an industry leader and stand out from the competition.
5 Ways to Optimize the Pharmaceutical Labeling Process
Product development and manufacturing are at the forefront of any pharmaceutical company’s business activities. Research and development, as well as product innovation help, are key factors [...]
How to Effectively Manage Print Samples with Automation
With so much competition between brands, packaging design is a key way to distinguish your company from others and thus persuade consumers to purchase your products.
Why Automated Quality Control is the Key to Getting Products to Market Faster
The modern business era has been characterized by a constant need to produce and deliver products with speed and efficiency. Long delays can result in financial losses and wasted resources that could have otherwise [...]
What are the Benefits of Implementing a Quality Inspection System?
If you’ve clicked on this article, chances are you’re considering implementing a quality inspection system in your organization. Maybe your business is losing money due to delays in the quality control department [...]
How to Avoid Waste on the Print Production Floor
From a business perspective, it makes sense to avoid waste whenever possible. Print waste in particular costs companies time and money, since any mistakes made during a print run will have to be corrected [...]
The Growing Role of Packaging in Building a Strong Brand Identity
When you think about your products, what sets them apart from others in the industry? Are they more durable than the competition? Do they have better features or a more user-friendly design? Why should customers choose you over another company?
Streamlining Pharmaceutical Artwork Management
Developing pharmaceutical packaging can feel as complicated and lengthy of a process as developing the product itself. If left without logical structure, this process quickly becomes vulnerable [...]
How to Verify Digimarc Barcodes with GlobalVision
A new era of barcodes is here. With big-name retailers and consumer goods companies replacing traditional barcodes with Digimarc barcodes, printers are facing more challenges than ever when it comes to verifying […]
Logical System Security as Crucial to Data Integrity as Physical Measures
When you hear the word “security,” what comes to mind? Maybe you think of the stereotypical security measures that have crept into our collective consciousness as [...]
How Validation Leads to Data Consistency and Integrity
Consistency is a trademark of both validation and data integrity. In fact, without validation and the consistency for which it strives, forget data integrity. It’s like there is no data at all.
3 Ways Error-Detection Software Ensures Data Integrity
There are many ways to ensure data integrity. As automation becomes increasingly prevalent in the 21st century, software, especially on the back end, is as important as ever.
Manual Proofreading Errors: How to Stop Label Recalls in Your Supply Chain
Regardless of the industry, all companies have the same goal in mind: to provide high-quality products to keep customers loyal and attract new ones. To accomplish this, each product must go through [...]
The Key to a Successful Software Development Lifecycle? Data Integrity.
In spite of the term Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), there aren’t concrete steps to follow when coding. Each case is somewhat different, even if there is one universal truth: Certain standards [...]
The Importance of an Audit Trail to Securing Data Integrity
It’s easier to think of an audit trail as a collection of breadcrumbs leading out of the woods. The Bright Side of Being Audited Admittedly, the word “audit” [...]
What is a Quality Management System?
What is a Quality Management System? A quality management system (QMS) is a term that refers to a system in charge of documenting all processes, responsibilities, and procedures for achieving quality objectives and policies.
What Is “Quality Inspection”?
Terms like “audit” and “inspection” are prevalent in any manufacturing business. The first one refers to analyzing manufacturing organizations and processes, whereas the second refers to any product-checking activity.
The IQ, OQ, PQ and Their Impact on Quality Control
There are some constants that cannot be ignored, even between two radically different products. If you were to take those two products and examine them, there is no denying there would be a long list […]
The Ultimate Layman’s Guide to Barcode Types and Printing
The use of barcodes dates back to the early 1960s, initially deployed within the automotive and railroad industry. In the early 1970’s they were implemented within the retail industry, mainly in grocery stores.
File Comparison Software Continues to Be the Gold Standard for Packaging Inspection
Business owners and manufacturers know that flawed packages carry a negative message for their brands. An imperfect package is an imperfect business, especially living in a world with customers [...]
12 Ways to Reduce Data Integrity Risks for Regulated Industries
What Does Data Integrity Mean? Data integrity refers to the fact that data must be reliable and accurate over its entire lifecycle. Data integrity and data security go hand in hand, even though they’re separate concepts.