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Management of the company
Contents of training:
APQP (Advanced Product Quality Planning) Training – Detailed planning for product design and related technology, release and change during production
Contents of training
- Basics and need for APQP
- Definition of phases and achievement of a plan for a production program
- Design and product development. DFMEA, specifications, prototype -control requirements for the measuring equipment, organization of the management team
- Process design and development. Technological flow chart, PFMEA, process instructions, measurement system analysis plan, preliminary study of system capability, management system
- Product and process validation. Product and process testing, measurement system evaluation, preliminary study for the capacity of the system, production control plan
- Methodology of feedback and corrective actions
- Methodology of control plan
Training PPAP (Production Part Approval Process) – procedure for approval of suppliers of products (samples, lots of sample, tests, ensuring a consistent quality, and so on – as part of APQP)
Contents of training
- Basics and need for PPAP
- Levels of PPAP – components to be supplied and customization
- Request for change – Supplier Change Request (SCR)
- Management of change in the relationship with the customer
- PPAP requirements for customer reference
- Declaration of conformity with specification, essential information and request for approval
- Documentation for approval of change
- Approval of the concept by the customer
- DFMEA / PFMEA Documentation
- Production flow charts
- Control Plan
Training ISO 16949 -2009 (Quality Management System for automotive)
Contents of training
- Standard structure and essential elements.
- Identify principles within the standard
- The relationship between quality management principles and standard
- Comparison with ISO 9001 – management, production, measurements, analysis and improvement
- Using Statistical Process Control – SPC and Measurement Systems Analysis -MSC
- FMEA – requirements and specifications
- Control Plan – contents and examples
- Quality Management – requirements and documentation
ISO 9001/2008, refresher training and efficient practical application
Many companies face a difficult problem: they implemented the ISO 9001 system in the company, there’s a certification, but many employees have forgotten, neglected and / or do not apply ISO 9001. In many companies, although ISO 9001 has been implemented, it has not proven its efficiency and people do not know how to streamline the business by its use. Apparently, audits using ISO 9001 do not detect any irregularity, but the impact on the organization is reduced; Moreover, the employees are complaining for additional bureaucracy.
Companies that achieved ISO 9001 certification and auditing, they generally do not consider these aspects of operational management and practical aspects to approach the processes. Continue reading
SPC Training (Statistical Measurement Control) – Measurement Control
Contents of training
- Process analysis, stability and capability
- Variation and statistical considerations
- Control charts (control chart) – Statistical elements and functional components
- Control charts for measurable variables
- X and R Graphs – calculating control limits
- Trends and interpretation of charts Continue reading
FMEA Training (Failure Modes & Effects Analysis) – Risk Analysis
- What is FMEA – general concept
- Risk Management and FMEA
- The main stages of FMEA process, worksheet and establishing the team
- Scale of severity of potential risks
- Scale of frequency of causes
- Scale of detection methods
- Calculate RPN – Risk Priority Number Continue reading
MSA (Measurement system analysis)
Contents of training
- Sources of variation. Effects of variations
- Identification and quantification of variation sources
- Statistical elements of measurements and variations
- Elements of error analysis.
- Resolution, accuracy and linearity,
- Stability of the measurement process,
- Reproducibility Continue reading
CHANGE management – „ How to make employee to do/ to propose/ to accept chamges without stress or frustrations ”
Contents of training:
- Adaptation – who, to whom, how, why, in what way ?
- Steps of the attitudes towards change and the change chart
- Different ways to answer to change
- Organizational change strategy and tactics
- Organizational culture versus individual culture
- “Who moved my cheese” … and more!
- Resistance to change and techniques to overcome it. Continue reading