Quality Management

Quality Management is critical in all organisations to maintain standards and meet customer requirements. This course focuses on setting and measuring quality standards to ensure the right product is delivered within the parameters of cost and time.

The course also recognises and explores the importance of a quality culture of continuous improvement. It highlights the key attitudes and behaviours necessary for sustained quality in all activities. The core components of a Lean culture are presented and discussed in detail.

Root cause analysis tools and approaches provide the basis for effective identification of quality issues to drive a culture of continuous improvement through daily incremental changes.

ISO 9001:2015 certification requirements and preparation are further explored as a framework for ensuring world-class quality levels that are robust and comprehensive.

What Will Be Covered:

• Determining processes and standards to deliver quality outputs
• Setting quality objectives and standards
• The PDCA cycle for continuous improvement
• Quality Control and Quality Assurance processes
• Total Quality Management (TQM) and continuous improvement concepts, including Lean and 6 Sigma
• What is a Lean culture and how does it promote and sustain quality initiatives in the business?
• Attitudes and behaviours necessary to develop a continuous improvement culture
• The centrality of employees to sustaining world-class quality approaches
• Test methodologies, root cause analysis and corrective action
• Analysing, interpreting and presenting test results in different formats according to context
• A practical overview of ISO 9001:2015 certification prerequisites, processes and implementation