LWI enhances your ability to improve through the implementation of Total Quality, Strategic Planning and Policy Deployment, Daily Management, Problem Solving, Quality Improvement Strategy and with the tools of Statistical Process Control, Experimental Design, Gauge Capability Analysis, Equipment Reliability, Team Effectiveness
Planning and deployment of strategic initiatives
LWI helps our clients plan and deploy strategic initiatives by using our Strategic Planning and Policy Deployment methodology
Organization-wide use of data, with data enhancement, improved data effectiveness, and improved data communication
Daily Management uses data in the process and disseminates these data throughout the organization. Strategic Planning and Policy Deployment emphasizes the use of Key Performance Indicators in the business to assess and communicate the health of the business. Design of Experiments gives you powerful tools to get more information out of data you already have as well as giving you even more powerful techniques of setting up efficient experiments to understand your process. Statistical Process Control is a tool which can be used at any level to identify unusual occurrences so that you can eliminate the bad ones and keep the good ones.
Market research, analysis, and improvement
Design of Experiments and Statistical Methods for Marketing give you statistical tools to analyze your markets.
Process control management and improvement
Statistical Process Control identifies unusual occurrences so that you can eliminate the bad ones and keep the good ones. Daily Management is a methodology for creating a complete process management and improvement system. Problem Solving is a methodology used to make problems go away forever. Quality Improvement Strategy is a tool to reduce the variability of some process output and therefore improve quality.
LWI can provide support and implementation of error proofing methods based on prevention, warning, reaction and total evaluation.
Reliability techniques use a variety of statistical and other tools to improve the reliability and uptime of equipment.
One step in Daily Management is standardizing your process. We have a technical aid called Standard Operating Procedures to make this easier. Statistical Process Control helps in standardizing by identifying unusual occurrences as well as through reaction plans.
Enhance client experimental research methods and analysis
LWI’s Design of Experiments series is the most comprehensive course in industrial experimental design you can get outside of a doctorate, and shows you many ways of economically investigating your process to make improvements and solve problems you never thought possible. Statistical Process Control is a tool to examine your process variability and determine if it is predictable.
LWI’s Statistical Quality Assurance methods will give you tools for helping your vendors provide more uniform supplies to your process. LWI’s Statistical Start-Up methodology will help you get the best performance out of new or existing equipment.
Implement teaming methodologies
Daily Management is a way to harness the knowledge of your process experts to build a self-sustaining process management team that continuously monitors and improves the process. The Team Effectiveness seminar is a very popular way to teach team members how to work within an effective team. Problem Solving uses a team approach to scientifically attack and eliminate defects. Quality Improvement Strategy is another team-based approach, in this case to reduce variability of your product.
Implement management systems for support of improvement
Strategic Planning and Policy Deployment is the way to think about and identify your business’s vision and mission and how to link these to strategic objectives and measurable performance indicators to fulfill your vision and mission. Daily Management is a system to deploy tactical and local-level strategic improvements to your process.
LWI can provide training and implementation in the concepts and principles of Lean Manufacturing as an operating philosophy, and has many years of experience impacting the bottom line and getting results.
Design Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEAs) are a powerful tool to use in developing a product to insure that you achieve the design intent. The Statistical Start-Up methodology ensures that a new product is deployed to the real world meeting the requirements of the customer.
Our Daily Management and Statistical Process Control tools have been used efficiently in industry to monitor and improve safety.
Enhance employee management and empowerment
Daily Management is a system where the process is defined, monitored, and improved by the people who are closest to it, thus empowering them in their area. The Problem Solving methodology uses the expertise of people related to the problem to solve it and ensure it does not come back.
All of LWI’s tools and strategies are built around a systematic approach to business management.
Provide personal coaching and counseling
LWI consultants have a broad base in many different industries and a working, real-life knowledge of implementing business technologies at all levels within an organization. They are available on site for one-on-one coaching and counseling for all levels of management and workers.
LWI has a long history of food quality improvement, using such strategies and tools as Daily Management, Statistical Process Control, Design of Experiments, Quality Improvement Strategy, and Problem Solving.
Provide certification support for ISO/QS, ISO/TS 19649 & Baldridge
All of LWI’s strategies and tools are compatible with ISO 9000:2000, QS 9000, the new standard ISO/TS 19649, and the Malcom Baldridge award criteria.
Provide training and assist in training development
LWI provides whatever training is needed to accomplish your objectives, and can aid in developing customized training seminars for your company.
Assist in managing specifications
LWI can teach you tools to assess and improve your process’s ability to meet customer specifications. These tools include Statistical Process Control, capability studies, Quality Improvement Strategy and Problem Solving.
Start-up optimization of new processes, equipment, and plants
LWI has a very successful Statistical Start-Up methodology to make sure that new processes, equipment, or entire plant sites are optimized.
TQM implementation and support
LWI has years of experience implementing Total Quality in a variety of industries in a way that ensures measurable bottom line improvements.