Change Agent
Published:Business transformation and lean deployment take dedicated resources with a particular set of skills to ensure change and continuous improvement are embedded in an organization. The role of change agents has never been more vital in today’s super competitive business world, and we’ll show you why.
Read moreRisk Priority Number (RPN)
Published:With ever more complex products, processes and services the potential for high impact failure modes increases. Risk management is crucial for business success and the calculation of Risk Priority Number with mitigation and correction actions is an industry standard methodology that helps achieve your quality goals.
Read moreConfounding
Published:The design, collection and analysis of experimental data takes significant time and resources. Careful consideration of the potential cause and effect relationships is key along with an understanding of variables that can influence both cause and effect. These confounding variables are ever present but their influence can be mitigated with good experimental design.
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Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA)
Published:As complexity increases so does the probability of error. Scrap, rework, defects, retesting, and recalls are all expensive. With failure mode and effects analysis we’ll show you the true value of adopting this approach.
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SWOT Analysis
Published:As competitive and market pressure increases, business strategic planning becomes ever more crucial. Using SWOT analysis, we investigate the factors that allow us to plot a path to continued growth and profitability.
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Rework
Published:Increasing complexity of products and services in combination with the pressure of reduced time to market can increase the probability of non-conformance and the need to perform rework to meet functional requirements. We’ll explain why avoiding rework activities is an all-round winner with some top tips for you to implement it in your business.
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Quality Operating System (QOS)
Published:With increasing competitive and market pressures, understanding customer requirements and delivering high-quality products, processes and services has never been more important. By implementing a Quality Operating System, you can ensure that quality improvement is every employee’s responsibility and focus.
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Return on Investment (ROI)
Published:Financial business metrics can be jargon-heavy and cumbersome to use. We simplify and demystify return on investment, making this accessible to all and giving you the confidence to use in your daily business life.
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Root Cause and Failure Analysis (RCFA)
Published:In a fiercely competitive market reacting swiftly to product or process failures, determining the true root cause and implementing change limits financial and reputational damage. Utilising root cause and failure analysis methodology is your gold standard for robustly preventing future failures.
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Project Return on Investment (ROI)
Published:Financial project metrics can be cumbersome to use and jargon-heavy. We demystify and simplify project return on investment, making the concept accessible to all and giving you the confidence to use it in your project management operations.
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Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)
Published:The supply of components into high-value manufacturing industries is fiercely competitive, and there is no place for poor quality. Unexpected defects mean lost business and reputational damage. By following the Production Part Approval Process, you can lock in quality and hit those customer requirements every time.
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Process Failure Modes Effects Analysis (PFMEA)
Published:Complex processes increase the likelihood of error states occurring. Scrap, defects, unnecessary work in progress, and warranty are all expensive. We’ll show you the benefits of adopting the process failure mode and effects analysis approach for your business.
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Low-Hanging Fruit
Published:A competitive and successful business needs to critically evaluate all the opportunities for improvement and deploy valuable resources strategically. By identifying low-hanging fruit, high-impact, low-effort activities can be addressed creating a solid foundation for continuous improvement.
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Key Process Input Variable (KPIV)
Published:Complex products and processes can often yield significant variation in output, with resultant poor customer satisfaction, especially when process inputs are not well controlled. By understanding and controlling our key process input variables, we have the perfect approach to keep output variation in check.
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Gap Analysis
Published:Keeping one step ahead of the competition whilst consistently meeting customer requirements makes a lot of business sense. Using gap analysis, we have a methodology that helps to understand and achieve full business potential whilst driving continuous improvement.
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Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA)
Published:As complexity increases, so does the probability of error. Rework, defects, retesting, and recalls are all very expensive. With design failure mode and effects analysis, we’ll show you the true value of adopting and inetgrating this approach.
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Continuous Improvement (CI)
Published:Competition for products and services is cutthroat, and survival should not be taken for granted. Implementing continuous improvement into your organisation and embedding it into your business culture keeps you one step ahead of the pack, locking in both customer and employee loyalty.
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Critical to Customer (CTC)
Published:Listening to and engaging with your customer gives a powerful and unique insight into what your products and services should deliver to be successful. By developing a number of Critical to Customer requirements, you can build a strong foundation for customer satisfaction and commercial success.
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Cause and Effect Diagram
Published:Getting to grips with the many different causes of defects and quality issues is key to ensuring business success and avoiding customer dissatisfaction. The cause and effect diagram is a clear, visual representation of all possible causes and keeps the team focused upon quality improvement.
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Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
Published:The design and manufacture of highly complex products and systems requires close co-operation between multiple suppliers and customers. Without well-defined quality plans and methodologies, products will neither get to market on time, or on budget, nor be defect free.
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