Speaker Profile
WILLIAM LEVINSON
William A. Levinson, P.E., FASQ, CFPIM is the principal of Levinson Productivity Systems, P.C. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Quality Manager, Reliability Engineer, and Six Sigma Black Belt, and the author of several books on quality, productivity, and management.
William Levinson
Recorded Webinar
90 Minutes
Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) and Root Cause Analysis
Recognize that CAPA is arguably the most important process in the quality management system because so much else depends on it. CAPA is used to handle not only poor quality (the traditional application) but also audit findings, customer complaints, and outputs of the management review. It can even be deployed against the other six Toyota production system wastes by treating them as "nonconformances" or, mor..
William Levinson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
How to Address ISO's New Climate Change Requirements?
ISO 9001:2015's successor, and other ISO standards, will soon include clauses related to climate change. The good news is that, if your organization already has a process to address risks to continuity of operations, including risks associated with climate-driven weather events, it is probably doing most if not all of what it needs to do to meet the new requirements. It is however important to not divert su..
William Levinson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Seeing the Waste: Henry Ford's Lean Success Secret
Enormous waste (muda) can hide in plain sight for years or even longer because everybody in the workplace takes it for granted, and is used to living with it or working around it. This waste can however consist of up to 95 percent of the labor, and a large portion of materials and energy as well. Henry Ford, whose success speaks for itself, identified three key performance indicators (KPIs) for waste that e..
William Levinson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Variation: Enemy of Productivity
Luck (variation) is no lady and Kismet (fortune) is no gentleman, at least not in product and service realization activities. Variation is a form of what General Carl von Clausewitz called friction: "the force that makes the apparently easy so difficult," and "countless minor incidents, combine to lower the general level of performance so that one always falls short of the intended goal." Variation can wrea..