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QS
9000
What
is QS 9000?
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Quality System Standard for the Automotive Industry
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Standard based on ISO 9000 quality system standard
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Third party (Outside Audit Company) to register the
plant
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Harmonized and Replaced the requirements of:
- DaimlerChrysler Pentastar Program
- Ford's Q1 Program
- GM's Targets for Excellence
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QS 9000 standard has 20 elements and each one deals
with specific aspect of the business
What
are the benefits?
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Provides access to all markets that may have been
previously closed
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Provides a competitive advantage against companies
who are not registered
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Drives Continues Improvement
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Increases Organizational Efficiency
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Strengthens Internal Relationships
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Improves Team-based Decision-Making
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Facilitates Continuous Improvement
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Institutionalizes Training
- Creates:
- Company
Expansion
- Excellent
Marketing tool
- Consistency
throughout the facility
- Confidence
among process groups
- Sense
of accomplishment
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ISO 9000
What
is ISO 9000?
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ISO 9000 is a series of Quality Management Systems
Standards created by the International Organization
for Standardization (ISO), a federation of 132 national
standards bodies based in Geneva, Switzerland. The
American National Standard Institute (ANSI) is a member
body representing the United States.
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ISO Quality Standards are not specific to product
or service, but they apply to the process which created
them. The standards are generic in nature so that
they can be used by manufacturing and service industries
all over the world.
What
are some of the benefits?
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Efficient & Economic Implementation
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Single comprehensive Audit
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Efficient Documentation
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Reduced Implementation & Maintenance Time
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Organizational Harmony between EMS and QMS
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ISO
14001 - Environmental Management System (EMS)
What
is ISO 14001?
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ISO 14001 is an Environmental Management System for
controlling Environmental impacts of the process and
product. It is a commitment to Continual Improvement
and Prevention of Pollution.
What
are some of the benefits?
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It gives an organization identifiable environmental
training requirements
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It is a demonstration of conformance to the environmental
policy
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Applicable to any organization
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Part of a Overall Management System
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Includes: Organizational Structure, Planning Activities,
Responsibilities, Practices, Procedures, Processes
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To Develop, Implement, Achieve, Review and Maintain
the Environmental Policy
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Advanced
Product Quality
What
is APQP?
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APQP is a structured process for planning the product
quality at the design stage
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The Advanced Product Quality Planning document is
a requirement for production part suppliers to DaimlerChrysler,
Ford and General Motors
Objective:
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Structured method of defining & establishing the
steps necessary to assure that a product meets customer
specifications. The goal is to facilitate communication
with everyone involved to assure that all required
steps are completed on time.
What
are the benefits?
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A reduction in the complexity of product quality planning
for the customer & supplier
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A means for supplier to easily communicate product
quality planning requirements to subcontractors
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Direct resources to satisfy the customer
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Promote early identification of required changes
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Avoid late changes
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Promote a quality product on time at the lowest cost
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Production
Part Approval Process (PPAP)
What
is PPAP?
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The Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) document
is a requirement for production parts suppliers to
DaimlerChrysler, Ford and General Motors
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The PPAP document covers generic requirements for
production part approval for all production and service
commodities, including bulk material. It applies equally
when these commodities are produced internally by
the automotive manufacturers or externally by outside
suppliers.
What
is PPAP necessary?
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The purpose of production part approval is to determine
if all customer engineering design records and specifications
are properly understood by the supplier and that the
process has the potential to produce products meeting
those requirements.
How
Can EQS help you?
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EQS can handle all your PPAP work on site
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EQS can help train your staff on the job, so you understand
how PPAP approval can be obtained from your customers.
Preparing PPAP paperwork right the first time can
significantly reduce your Product Development time
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Changeover
Time Reduction
Why
is Changeover Time Reduction necessary?
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Manufacturing industries have traditionally preferred
large production batch size because they save on the
number of set-ups. Large batches create high level
of work in process (WIP) inventory and this in turn
extends the lead time to manufacture a product.
Problems
Associated with long lead time, high WIP and high set-up
times:
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Poor Delivery Performance
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Poor Quality
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High Operation Cost
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Overdue Orders
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Overproduction
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Shortages
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Individual Piecework Systems
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Panic Jobs
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Stockouts
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Redundant Stocks
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Large Batch Sizes
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Production
Containment (Controlled Shipping)
Why
Containment?
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Today's stringent quality requirements and the drive
toward low PPM and zero defects make containment necessary
for most manufacturing industries.
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How can EQS help you?
- Trained full-time Inspectors
- 100% Final Inspection where requested
- 100% Efficiency in Sorting, Rework & Containing
Defective Parts
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EQS teams are sent at your request to selected facilities
to assist in the identification of breakdowns/deficiencies
in the quality production procedures. Teams remain
on-site, as long as it takes, through the implementation
of corrective actions as partners with facility management
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Failure
Mode & Effects Analysis (FMEA)
What
is FMEA?
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FMEA is a systematic approach that identifies potential
failure modes in a system, product, or manufacturing/assembly
operation caused by either design or manufacturing/assembly
process deficiencies. It also identifies critical
design or process characteristics that require special
controls to prevent a failure from occurring by eliminating
all possible failure modes. FMEA is an excellent quality
tool.
What
are the Benefits?
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Improves the quality, reliability, and safety of products
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Improves company image and competitiveness
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Increases customer satisfaction
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Reduces product development time and cost
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Documents and tracks action taken to reduce risk
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Japanese
Problem Solving Techniques
What
are the Japanese Problem Solving Techniques?
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JIDOKA or "autonomation" involves equipping
machines with the ability to use judgement. In practice,
Jidoka prevents defective items from being passed
on the next station, reduces waste, and most important,
enables operations to build quality into the production
process itself when the root cause of a problem is
identified.
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KANBAN, a Japanese word that means, "display
card" or "instruction card", is a tool
to implement the pull system, also known as Just-in-Time.
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ANDON, a Japanese word for lantern, is a board with
light bulbs hanging over the aisle between production
lines to alert supervisors about any problem. This
device quickly informs a supervisor of only what he
or she needs to know to take immediate actions and
thereby allows a small number of supervisors to control
a large area; it also prompts supervisors to develop
countermeasures for recurring problems in the long
term.
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KAIZEN literally means "changing something for
the better". The object of change usually includes
the standardized work, equipment and other procedures
for carrying out daily production.
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HEIJUNKA is a terminology to describe the idea of
distributing volume and different specifications evenly
over the span of production such as day, a week and
a month. Under this practice, the plant's output should
correspond to the diverse mix of model variations
and achieve the ability to have what the customers
want, when they want it and in the correct amount.
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Training
EQS
can train in the following:
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APQP
- DFMEA
- PFEMA
- CONTROL
PLAN
- ISO-14000
- BASIC
SPC
- PROBLEM
SOLVING
- ISO-9000:2000
- PPAP
- SIX
SIGMA
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