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Technical Resources

VPMEP's Technical Assistance services provide customized coaching, facilitation, consulting, and project management on a per-project basis. Typical assistance projects range from one-day for a basic assessment to 12 months or more for a full ISO 9000:2000 /QS 9000/FDA/ Quality Management System, and ISO 14000 Environmental implementation project. Technical assistance projects provide the fastest, most cost effective method for implementing quality practices in your organization.

• ISO 9000:2000 Conversion
• Executive Introduction to ISO/QS 9000
• ISO/QS 9000 Documentation Systems
• Quality System Assessment
• ISO/QS 9000 - TS16949 QMS Implementation
• ISO 14000 Environmental Management System Implementation
• AS 9100 Implementation
• Vendor Certification Services

• FDA CFR 820 GMP's Implementation - The CFR 820 Quality Management System is used by companies manufacturing medical devices and products.
• Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) System Implementation - The HACCP System is used by companies manufacturing food products to assist in preventing food contamination.

• Gap Analysis Audits - This one-day audit assesses every aspect of your operation that is covered by the pertinent Quality Management System (ISO, QS, AS, CFR 820, etc.) standard, and determines your current level of compliance against the standard.
• Pre-Assessment Audits - This one-to-two day audit simulates a full third-party registration audit for the purpose of determining quality system readiness for an actual registration audit.
• External Audits - These audits utilize independent, objective, external auditors to evaluate your quality systems compliance to the chosen standard.
• Supplier Audits - These are utilized by your quality or purchasing department to assess the quality assurance capability of your supplier.

• Six Sigma Project Management - This service provides customized coaching, facilitating, consulting, and project management to assist your firm in an efficient and cost-effective design, development and implementation of a Six Sigma Project using the DMAIC model. This project facilitation enables world-class quality and continual improvement to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction.
• Black Belt Consulting Services - Our people provide customized coaching, consulting, and project management to assist your firm in facilitating, leading, executing and completing DMAIC based Six Sigma projects.
• Value Stream Mapping for Lean & Six-Sigma - As a management tool, a team made up of mid-level managers and executives learn to take a snapshot, and create a map of their current-state (information and product flow). From this, Lean and Six Sigma concepts are applied to identify areas where manufacturing/office performance can be improved.
• Six Sigma Black and Green Belt Certification - Development of internal capabilities to participate, and or lead Six Sigma projects can help your business achieve strategically based initiatives. We offer certification through our Black Belt consultants and rigorous, Internet based instruction to develop skills and verify capabilities through completion of actual Six Sigma projects. Participants will, upon completion of the program, be eligible to apply for certification through ASQ, the leading authority in quality.
• Root Cause Analysis (8D) /Problem Solving - Our team provides your staff with the tools and techniques to identify and define problems, analyze, select and implement solutions, and evaluate and follow up on results to help you get to the root causes and solve them once and for all.
• Failure Mode and Effects Analysis Implementation (FMEA) - This service provides companies with an assessment of the risk to customers if key process inputs were to fail. In addition, it documents processes and process improvement activities.
• Statistical Process Control Techniques - Our group provides your staff with the tools and techniques to identify and define variability in processes, and develop the correct statistical tool to delineate between common cause and special variation.