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Business consulting to qualitative standards

O&SI has launched a quality business consulting service to support SMEs in a number of areas:

• Detailed analysis of strengths and weaknesses to prompt the most fitting, corrective actions;
• Manage problem solving and adopt the right method according to the size of your company, deal with non-compliance and internal or external problems;
• Manage internal and external audits, with tailored check-lists for projects, products and business systems;
• Adopt value analysis techniques to establish where, in the business process, value is added to the product and where waste and unnecessary actions can be cut down;
• Evaluate quality costs and company qualitative losses. Should they cover 20% of the revenue, there is scope for cost-saving and investment;
• Follow capability techniques, both in short- and long-term: if on a certain variable you have good qualitative capability, we can zero the costly controls;
• Help SMEs to adopt simple Lean techniques to all processes, from office to planning, from production to after-sales;
• Adopt SPC statistical control techniques, which allow predictive analysis and prevent faults from occurring;
• Introduce MBTF techniques, for a calibrated and efficient maintenance on the basis of faults diagnosis;
• Encourage TPM, a full maintenance aimed at guaranteeing maximum efficiency of machineries and processes;
• Use Six-sigma statistical analysis, for full control on critical variables in processes;
• Suggest SMED techniques for effective changes and increase flexibility in production;
• QFD analysis during the development of new products and optimization through the Japanese Taguchi technique, to minimise unnecessary tests in the development’s phase;
• FMEA analysis to allow control and elimination of defects in all business processes, from planning to after-sales;
• Implementation of CMMI (Capability Maturity Model Integration), both in SW development and business processes.