Core Competencies

Development

  • Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP)
  • Collaborative Product Process Design (CPPD)
  • Control Plan Methodology
  • Design for Assembly & Manufacturing (DFA/M)
  • Design for Six Sigma (DFSS)
  • Design Verification & Validation (DVP&R)
  • Error / Mistake Proofing (Poka Yoke)
  • Experimental Design / Design of Experiments (DOE)
  • Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Failure Mode & Effects Criticality Analysis (FMECA)
  • Failure Mode Avoidance (FMA)
  • Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
  • Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerances (GD&T)
  • ISO 26262
  • New Product Introduction (NPI)
  • Product Liability Overview
  • Quality Core Tools
  • Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
  • Reliability Calculations of Systems
  • Robust Engineering (Boundary Diagrams – Parameter Diagrams – Interface Analysis)
  • Special Characteristics
  • Systems Engineering
  • Technical Kick-off (TKO)
  • Tolerance Design / Root Sum Squares (RSS)

Improvement

  • Continuous Process Improvement (CPI)
  • Control Plan Methodology
  • Cost of Quality / Cost of Non Quality
  • Failure Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
  • Gage Repeatability & Reproducibility (GR&R)
  • Internal Auditing & Assessment
  • Kaizen
  • Lean Operations
  • Life Cycle Costs (LCC)
  • Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
  • Organization & Standardization of the Work Area (5S)
  • Process Kick-off (PKO)

Corrective Action