Quality Team 1

15135 Hamilton
Highland Park, Michigan 48203 USA

For Over seven years Quality Team 1 has been providing cost effective quality service to automotive suppliers and other factory suppliers. We have built our reputation on high quality standards projected in the work we do for our customers. We are flexible and adaptable to any unique needs you may have. We have a Quality Engineer in-house with many years of work experience with the Automotive Industry. We are located in the heart of Detroit. Contact us for a complete list of areas covered. We can provide Quality Engineering support including PPAP, FMEA, Control Plans, 8D Report, APQP, Gage R&R, and Launch Support.

Application of 6 Sigma Methodologies

The Six Sigma methodology helps achieve improvement in your business model by eliminating defects and understanding customer needs, through - identifying the problem/issue, measuring, analyzing root cause(s), improving and controlling. We have a Six Sigma Black Belt in-house with many years of work experience with the Automotive Industry.

Poke Yoke (Error Proofing)

Mistake-proofing is an integral part of an overall Quality Improvement Process. When you eliminate mistakes everything you make will be made right the first time; you will have no scrap; no rework; and no disappointed customers.

Quality Team 1 will help you develop and implement mistake-proofing techniques.

PPAP

Production Part Approval Process is a mandatory requirement within automotive industry and it specifically deals with determining and ensuring if all of the customers engineering criteria, design records and specification requirements are properly understood by the supplier and that the suppliers processes have the potential to produce products which meet these requirements during an actual production run at the quoted production rate.

Quality Team 1 will work with you in developing PPAP based on your customer’s requirements.

APQP

The Advanced Product Quality Planning process involves the following major elements:
· Understand customer needs
· Proactive feedback & corrective action
· Design within process capabilities
· Analyze & mitigate failure modes
· Verification & validation
· Design reviews
· Control special/critical characteristics

With our broad knowledge in Quality Tools, Quality Team 1 will help you increase your ability to implement and achieve effective quality planning requirements.

FMEA

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is an easy to use and yet powerful pro-active engineering quality method that helps you to identify and counter weak points in the early conception phase of the products and processes. The structured approach makes it easy to use. The benefits obtained encompass by large the investments in time and resources to execute the analysis. FMEAs can actually help prevent failures, defects, and errors, because FMEAs identify special causes of variation before they occur. FMEAs are a valuable tool for any industry in which defect prevention is important.

Quality Team 1 will work with you in developing and effectively implementing FMEAs in your company.

Control Plan

The purpose of Control Plan methodology is to aid in the manufacture of quality products according to customer requirements. It does this by providing a structured approach for the design, selection and implementation of value-added control methods for the total system. Control Plans provide a written summary description of the systems used in minimizing process and product variation.

Quality Team 1 has established a multi-discipline team to assist your company in developing a Control Plan by utilizing all the available information.

Appearance Manual

If the product has appearance requirements on the design record, a separate Appearance Approval Report or Appearance Guide is required for each part.

Quality Team 1 will help you develop an effective Appearance Guide based on your customer’s requirements.

Gage R & R

Identifying and reducing measurement variation is the whole reason for doing gage repeatability and reproducibility (R and R) studies. An effective measurement system analysis (MSA) can provide valuable information on your company’s gage performance, employee performance, and part interaction to the gage. In order to determine whether your gage technicians are operating effectively and efficiently it is essential that a gage R & R study - attribute or discrete is conducted.

Quality Team 1 has qualified staffs to conduct Gage R & R on your process.

8D

A discipline team problem solving approach with the objective of resolving a problem or improving an existing process at any level of the organization. 8 Disciplines in problem solving are as follows:
· D1 - Establish the team
· D2 - Describe the problem
· D3 - Develop the interim containment action and verification
· D4 - Define and verify root cause and escape point
· D5 - Choose and verify permanent corrective actions for root cause and escape point
· D6 - Implement and validate permanent corrective actions
· D7 - Prevent recurrence
· D8 – Recognize team and individual contributions.

Whatever your quality issue is, Quality Team 1 will generate an 8D Report to take an immediate action to your problem(s).