Continues Improvements using 7 Basic Quality Tools
José Mora is a Principal Consultant specializing in Manufacturing Engineering and Quality Systems. For over 30 years he has worked in the medical device and life sciences industry specializing in manufacturing, process development, tooling, and quality systems. Prior to working full time as a consulting partner for Atzari Consulting, José served as Director of Manufacturing Engineering at Boston Scientific and as Quality Systems Manager at Stryker Orthopedics, where he introduced process performance, problem-solving, and quality system methodologies. During that time he prepared a white paper on the application of lean manufacturing methods to the creation and management of controlled documents and a template for strategic deployment. José led the launch of manufacturing at a start-up urology products company as Director of Manufacturing for UroSurge, Inc. at the University of Iowa’s business incubator park in Coralville, IA, creating a world-class medical device manufacturing operation, with JIT, kanban systems, visual workplace, and lean manufacturing practices.
José worked for 10 years at Cordis Corporation, now a Cardinal Health company, where he led the successful tooling, process development and qualification of Cordis’ first PTA (percutaneous transluminal angioplasty) catheter. His medical device experience includes surgical instruments, PTA & PTCA dilatation and guiding catheters, plastic surgery implants and tissue expanders, urology implants and devices for the treatment of incontinence, delivery systems for brachytherapy, orthopedic implants and instruments, and vascular surgery grafts and textiles. During his time at Cordis, José managed the Maintenance and Facilities Department, taking that operation to a level rated as “tops” by the UK Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) during one of their intensive audits. Jose managed Manufacturing Engineering as part of the Guiding Catheter Core Team of managers, a team that took the Cordis Guiding Catheter business to lead the market, bringing it up from fourth place. By introducing world-class techniques, the Guiding Catheter design and manufacturing was completely re-engineered for robust design and tooling, under Jose’s leadership. He was also instrumental and played a leadership role in the complete re-engineering of the Tooling Control System, including design drafting, the tool shop, and technical support. Wherever he has worked, he has a track record of introducing world-class methodologies such as Kepner-Tregoe, Taguchi techniques, Theory of Constraints, Lean Manufacturing, Five S (Visual Workplace), process validation to Global Harmonization Task Force standards, and similar approaches.
The Seven Basic Quality Tools, also known as “The original seven” or “The basics for Quality job” or “Must-know Quality Tools” as well as the most frequently used Quality tools, were first promoted by Kaoru Ishikawa, a professor of engineering at Tokyo University and the father of "quality circles." These tools, while there can be slight variations, include a Cause-and-effect diagram (also called Ishikawa or fishbone diagrams), Check sheet, Control chart, Histogram, Pareto chart, Scatter diagram, and Flowchart.
While each of these tools can stand on its own, and can add value to continuous improvement (if the person and team know how to use it), the true power is unlocked when you learn and apply all the tools in the right order and against the right problem. For this reason, during the webinar, we will introduce the tools, let you know where and how you can get them (complementary), and walk you through an example that you can later apply to your business/process/operations.
Areas Covered
- Introductions
- Introduce the seven basic tools
- Talk about each tool and what value it brings (standalone)
- Walk through the application of using all seven tools (continuous improvement)
- Questions and answers
- Resources (and ask)
Who Should Attend
- Quality engineering
- Quality specialist
- Quality Managers
- Quality Directors
- Quality Inspectors
- Manufacturing engineers
- Manufacturing supervisors
- Operations excellence leaders
- Operations excellence engineers
- Operations excellence managers
Why Should You Attend
Without continuous improvement, you are at risk of going out of business quickly. Yet, with many, and mostly expensive continuous improvement methodologies, it is expensive and hard to implement and drive continuous improvement in any organization.
Hence, going back to the basics is the solution - and the best solution, if you want to achieve your corporate objectives and beat the competition.
Topic Background
Introduce 7 Basic Quality Tools and how they, together, when used properly, lead to successful continuous improvement and problem-solving. The same tools are the basis for Six Sigma (DMAIC) and Lean (Waste Removal) methodologies.
Will also share where and how these tools can be obtained and how they can be trained on.
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$200.00
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