Quality

It's not enough to "control" quality -- you can "quality control" yourself right out of business. It's better to improve quality, in big ways and small ways, all the time. IES specialists will take you beyond quality control -- beyond ensuring your products "meet spec" -- to designing and producing products that delight your customers and cost you less to produce.

You can make your operations more effective and more efficient, and you can make your products so well that you stop wasting money on scrap and rework and warranty repairs and instead have higher profits you can invest back into your business. Done right, you can achieve higher quality at lower costs, capture more of your market, and continue improving to keep your business in business for years to come.

IES specialists will help you learn and apply quality improvement tools such as process flowcharts, standardized work, statistical process control and more.

Work Instructions:

Pictorial detailed, step-by-step, easy to read and understand instructions for plant floor, supervision and engineers to use.

Standardized Work:

Pictorial general instructions that include the layout, standard work analysis, standardized work combination and machine set up instructions.

Statistical process control (SPC):

Determine suitable control charts for a given characteristic. Construct and instal control charts, along with training for operators/inspectors. Develop and implement reaction plan.

Process/machine performance/capability studies:

Conduct studies to assess the process or machine delivery as measured by the relevant criteria.

Measurement system analysis (MSA):

Conduct MSA to determine the bias, linearity, stability as well as reproducibility and repeatability (R&R ).

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA):

Analyze potential failure modes within a system for classification by severity or determination of the effect of failures on the system.