How Attune and Reliance align manufacturing operations with your organization's goals
One of the trickier parts of manufacturing software investments is ensuring they align operations with your organization’s broader goals. If you're already running Octave Attune, you've likely seen real results such as, improved reliability, reduced downtime and better visibility into your assets. But reliability improvements don't automatically solve quality. Many organizations still see recurring defects, supplier issues and warranty costs adding up even after asset performance gets better.
This is where Octave Reliance can help. Reliance extends the value of Attune by helping organizations turn operational insight into governed action: managing quality, compliance, supplier performance and continuous improvement as its own dedicated system, working alongside Attune rather than integrating with it.
Quality is increasingly seen as more of a strategic priority than a compliance function. According to our 2026 Pulse of Quality Survey, 63% of manufacturers now view it as a strategic business initiative, but 55% still rely on office tools and 51% still use homegrown systems to manage their quality processes.
So, let’s look at how Reliance specifically helps organizations already using Attune address the quality side of operations.
Reliability improvements create new quality opportunities
Attune can help with improving downtime, giving you more visibility into your asset health and lead to fewer surprises on the production floor. But recurring defects, supplier variability and inconsistent quality corrective actions can keep driving up the cost of poor quality (COPQ), even after asset performance improves. These costs come from things such as scrap, rework and warranty costs, and they need their own dedicated system to solve.
Reliance is built specifically for the quality side of the equation. It helps you understand where quality could be streamlined, using data across your system to build supplier scorecards, get insight into nonconformance rates and see which inventory yields are being tied up in rework.
Organizations have used Reliance to:
Cut quality CAPAs by half and speed up document revision release time by 40%
Reduce their quality technology footprint by 35%, consolidating systems that used to run separately
Reduce scrap and rework by 32% and overall warranty costs by 70%
If your organization is trying to reduce the cost to produce goods, you can pull the data you need to determine how much wiggle room you have before pulling that lever.
Reliance helps quality teams adapt to shifting regulations and requirements
The only predictable area of the market is that it will behave unpredictably.
As quality becomes a strategic business initiative, organizations also need to manage a constantly shifting set of regulatory, customer, supplier and internal quality requirements. A rule that eases at the federal level can still show up as a stricter requirement from a customer, a state or an overseas market somewhere in your supply chain. Add shifting supplier requirements and internal quality standards into the mix, and the list of things that can change your compliance posture with little warning gets long fast.
Reliance is built to give quality teams the flexibility to adapt to exactly this kind of change. As a configurable system built specifically for quality and compliance, the workflows and dashboards can adjust when a new regulation takes effect or a new requirement rolls out, without needing to rebuild the process from scratch.
In fact, Owen Mumford, a Reliance customer, went through every FDA inspection across all four of its manufacturing without a single 483 finding.
Another customer, FUJIFILM, cut its audit administration time in half, from roughly 1,500 hours a year to about 750, by consolidating five separate software products into one.
Attune helps prevent equipment issues. Reliance helps prevent quality issues from repeating.
Attune gives you options to watch for drift and ensure your assets are performing as needed. On the quality side, Reliance works to identify recurring quality issues. Even when you’ve closed a quality corrective action, those same problems can pop up somewhere else. Reliance can flag when a new nonconformance matches the pattern of one already tied to a closed corrective action. This way, your team knows when to investigate whether the original fix applied addressed the root cause. Additionally, predictive analytics can help you predict future quality issues so you can address them before they occur at different sites.
For organizations trying to reduce costs, protect margins, increase revenue or a mix of these, preventing quality issues from repeating can be the difference between missing a goal and surpassing it.
Next steps
Centralizing your reporting, adapting a workflow to a new requirement or catching one recurring issue are all valuable on their own. Together, they can help you with your organizational goals.
If you’d like to see how these changes add up across your operations, take a look at our [LINK: infographic on cost of poor quality]. We also have framework you can use to drive the strategy behind [LINK: connecting your asset and quality operations]. That said, if you'd rather talk through your specific setup with someone directly, we have a team of experts that can help. You can schedule time with an export here.