QualityAdvantage LLC 

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Rapid, Effective PPAP, FMEA and

Control Plan Training and Facilitation

Need a PPAP, but not sure what a PPAP requires?  PPAP is the Production Part Approval Process.

Need an effective FMEA, but lack experience creating one?  A FMEA is a Failure Mode and Effects Analysis.

Need a Process Control Plan to satisfy advanced quality planning requirements?

Need to know how to effectively build a Control Plan from a FMEA?

You've come to the right place.  We make it simple.

We do PPAP, FMEA and Control Plans right!

QualityAdvantage provides proven, proprietary training and facilitation to assure that your organization meets all customer requirements for PPAP, FMEA and Control Plans, promptly and effectively.

What is a FMEA?

A FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a simple tool to identify, analyze, prioritize and continually reduce risks in a product, algorithm or process design, manufacturing process or production machine.  Risks are continually reduced by completion of actions recommended in the FMEA. 

The FMEA and Process Control Plan are the key elements of a PPAP.  Most importantly, a FMEA identifies risk allowing reduction and control, thus avoiding quality costs, including potential warranty costs.  Risk reduction is the primary objective.

What is a Control Plan?

Control Plans (a.k.a., quality plans) are used widely throughout manufacturing to control product characteristics and process variability to maintain capability.

In manufacturing and to support requirements of ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949:2002, work instructions and visual aids are normally referenced from the Control Plan, along with "everything" associated with controlling the quality of the production process.

What does QualityAdvantage do?

QualityAdvantage provides quality and environmental management system implementation and training support to a wide variety of organizations in the USA.

PPAP Training and Facilitation

Our QualityAdvantage Partner will train your organization on all the latest PPAP requirements and expectations.

We will help you verify your customer's specific PPAP requirements.

We will help your organization develop and implement a Process Map, a FMEA(s), a Process Control Plan, a Part Submission Warrant, and anything else needed to meet customer-specific PPAP requirements.

We will train your organization to facilitate a PPAP by facilitating one of your PPAPs on-site for you.  That way, your Team can develop and implement your PPAPs in the future. 

FMEA Training and Facilitation

In the automotive industry, we often find the FMEA to be a poorly used tool for risk assessment, prevention, and continual improvement.  If you're not content to just "fill in the blanks", we can explain and demonstrate the real benefits of an effective FMEA.

Our Certified FMEA Facilitator will train your organization on all the latest FMEA requirements and expectations. 

We will help you verify your customer's specific design FMEA (DFMEA) or process FMEA (PFMEA) requirements.

We will help your organization determine and analyze potential failure modes, effects of failure, causes, and design or process controls.  Together we will calculate risks, determine recommended actions, and predict the risk reduction when recommended actions are implemented.

If you choose, we will train your organization to facilitate a FMEA by facilitating one of your FMEAs on-site for you.  That way, your Team can develop and implement your FMEAs in the future.

A Process FMEA (PFMEA) is normally developed to support a Process Control Plan.  We will show you how to easily transition from a PFMEA to a Control Plan.

Control Plan Training and Facilitation

We offer training and facilitation of Control Plans, to quickly and effectively establish your capability to develop and implement Control Plans for yourself.

We show you how to create effective Control Plans serving as the "mother document" for process control.  Most importantly, we show you how to use Control Plans to trigger risk reduction, defect prevention, continual improvement, and other quality cost reduction opportunities.

Process audits are a requirement of most quality system standards, such as ISO 9001:2000.  We show you how to perform a process audit using the Process Control Plan as your checklist.

This is what we do...  we would welcome the opportunity to work with you!