Education and Training Courses 2008

To support best practice Product Management including New Product Introduction; Product, Computer Programme Documentation, or Process Change, Management; Quality Planning & Control.

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The following 4 training courses are available. They can be readily tailored to suit individual requirements for in-house workshopsTo discuss your consulting or training needs with one of our independent consultants or trainers please Contact Us.

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D01 New Product Introduction (NPI) (2 Days) (Course Schedules), (Request course details)

Designed for all levels of management, designers and staff in design and development, this course aims to provide the key tasks, tools and techniques in order to generate & manage the implementation of a stream of market led, technically and commercially viable new products to support the business plan, with minimum risk, time to market and where products & processes are legal, healthy, safe & environmentally friendly, by showing you:

This will enable you to answer the following questions and many more:

 

D02 Specification Change Management: (Managing Product, Computer Programme, Documentation, or Process changes) (1 Day) (Course Schedules), (Request course details)

Aimed at all levels of product and process planning, computer programmers, documentation management personnel and Business Process Re-engineering or ERP implementation teams working in these areas this course will enable you to answer the following questions:

 

D03 Six Steps To Near Perfect Quality (1 Day) (Course Schedules), (Request course details)

Aimed at all levels of personnel responsible for delivering a quality product or service, this entry level course aims to provide an overview of the prerequisites and culture, structure, processes and organisation required. The course objectives are to help you to take the six steps to near perfect quality (quality control being step six) as follows:

  1. Establish the real need (customer perceived value criteria).

  2. Create a quality culture, where expectations are high (a superior standard) and accountability is clear.

  3. Set up a collaborative, quality planning process to reduce risk & variables, increase capability, and manage change.

  4. Define & agree the “best” method & learn from the best.

  5. Institutionalise the best method by standard working / procedures / documentation / training / auditing.

  6. Set up a quality control process which manages problems, near misses, & non conformance, focuses effort, establishes root causes and drives improvement.

 

D04 Advanced Quality Management (2 Days) (Course Schedules), (Request course details)

Designed as an advanced level course for recently appointed quality control personnel, team leaders in product & process design, process management / operations and servicing, this detailed course describes a complete quality management process for the whole product / service life cycle & will enable you to answer the following questions:

Quality Planning

Quality Control

Notes:

  1. This course includes a copy of our MS Excel® SPC template to establish process capability and set control limits for monitoring quality.

There are a number of other courses that may be relevant to your product management as follows:

M03 Bill of Material & Routing Design & Data Management

S05 World Class Change Management

S08 Programme Management

S09 Project Management

I06 Software Asset Management

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