Why let millions of dollars go to waste? We will reduce your expenses and add to your revenue by making process quality happen.  We know your personnel resources are limited right now and we will help. We are experts in making the process of improvement work for you.

Cost of Quality

Applying Cost of Quality principles you will strategically measure the economic benefits of a six sigma, ISO, Baldrige based, or other process improvement program. Our expertise in this area will make your process improvement return on investment clearly visible in dollars and cents. See our article:  Using Finance for Improvement to Demonstrate the Economic Value of Improvement, Excellence and Quality.

Lean Tools:

Lean is a great approach to make process improvement happen. We teach a wide range of tools, each focused on saving millions of dollars of waste. Our Lean training covers the entire gamut:

• Lean Standard Work
• Total Productive Maintenance
• Lean Involvement
• Planning for Lean
• Lean Five s (often Six s)
• Lean Jidoka (often called Poke Yoke or Human Flow Automation)
• Just in Time
• Lean Value Stream Mapping

To help your managers’ gain an overview of successful Lean implementation, we provide coaching and training services.

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Six Sigma

The Define – Measure – Analyze – Improve – Control approach of Six Sigma has saved millions of dollars at your supplier’s, customer’s, and competitor’s organizations. Why not gain this savings yourself? Six Sigma tools such as data collection, process mapping, the SIPOC diagram (supplier – Input – Process – Output - Customer) help you really know your processes. Voice of the Customer gets your entire organization focused on that is really important, avoiding wasted expenses in millions of dollars. Custom measures are a specialty of ours: see more in our article: How to Avoid Misleading Measurement.

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Office productivity:

• Does the process of improvement in your office really shine?
• Does communication flow smoothly between the plant and the ‘front office’?
• What measures do you use to monitor process improvement in the office?

Courses offered:

• Measuring Process and Organizational Performance
• Data Analysis Using Excel
• Finance for Improvement- Cost of Quality
• Developing and Offering a Live Webinar
• Value Stream Mapping
• Preparing for ASQ certification: Six Sigma Green Belt
• Preparing for ASQ certification: Quality Engineer
• Measuring Process and Organizational Performance
• Data Analysis Using Excel
• Finance for Improvement- Cost of Quality
• Quality Tools for Data Collection
• Quality Tools for Data Analysis
• Quality Tools for Managers
• Inspection and Testing
• Quality Audit Fundamentals and Application
• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
• Lean Standard Work


• Lean Involvement
• Lean Total Productive Maintenance
• Lean Management Overview
• Planning for Lean
• Lean 5s
• Human Flow Automation (Jidoka)
• Just in Time
• Value Stream Mapping


• Preparing for ASQ certification: Six Sigma Green Belt
• Preparing for ASQ certification: Quality Engineer
• Preparing for ASQ certification: Quality Auditor
• Preparing for ASQ certification: Certified Manager of Quality/ Organizational Excellence

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