LQA’s Industrial Engineering Assistance offering is a range of services that allows small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to attain performance equivalent to large companies; while still maintaining small staffs. We can provide all levels of support from: consulting, doing and ‘to managing your projects.’ Our services range from getting a little help to having it done for you.

1. Process Design & Process Layout – This offering can provide the implementation that can make all the difference in Specifying, Buying/Building, Installing, Debugging and gaining Final Acceptance of capital tools and production lines. Our engineers with a century of experience in some of the largest and also some of the smallest companies can assist you to flawless start-ups.
2. Process Optimization – This offering can provide the assistance you need to make a PROCESS perform 5% better or to optimize the performance of an entire production operation by making the LEAD TIME from order to delivery improve by 75%.

1. Quality Tools – This offering can provide: a) the training your employees need, b) to make the improvement or c) how to manage & sustain the improvement.
   • Value Stream Mapping – This offering provides the strategic plan for process improvement that you are missing. Your team will “learn to see” the value stream of your business. The output is a plan for an improved process.   
   • Root Cause Analysis (8D) /Problem Solving – This offering provides your staff with the tools and techniques to get to the root causes of defects and solve them once and for all.
   • Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) – This offering provides you a tool for making excellent products and processes ‘right out of the chute.’
   • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Implementation (FMEA) - This offering provides you with an assessment of the risk if key process (or product) inputs were to fail. In addition, it documents product and process improvement activities.
   • Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA) – This offering provides you with a method of determining the adequacy of measurement tools, methods, training and utilization. A rigorous, statistical method that can be used and documented by your technicians.
   • Production Part Approval Process (PPAP) – This offering provides you with a fool-proof scheme for identifying exactly what your customer agrees is “good product.” It allows certainty in judgments for those vital decisions.
   • Statistical Process Control Techniques – This offering provides you with the method to control variability in processes, and ‘tell the difference’ between common cause and special variation.
2. to contact the IE wizard:  ie@leanquality.net