Quality Essentials Program (QEP)

Maintaining the highest quality standards is critical in every manufacturing organization. The success of your business operations is contingent on your quality reputation in the industry.

SCMEP’s Quality Essentials Program (QEP) is designed to address the growing need for skilled quality workers in manufacturing. Taught by a seasoned quality expert, the QEP program provides training on essential quality concepts, tools, and tasks. Each workshop is held once a week over a consecutive five-week period.

Day 1: Workplace Skills – October 17

Learn the core professional skills relevant to working in a manufacturing environment, including effective communication and conflict management.

Day 2: Quality Management Systems and Basic Audit Principles – October 24

Learn the basics of Quality Management Systems and audit principles used when conducting audits of quality systems.

Day 3: Error Proofing Basics – November 7

Learn the fundamentals of implementing error proofing mechanisms to mitigate risk of recurrence. Gain an understanding of how Cost of Quality impacts an organization.

Day 4: Quality Tools & Techniques – November 14

Learn and apply the seven basic quality tools.

Day 5: Problem Solving – November 20

Use the seven basic quality tools to solve problems.  Learn problem solving techniques including problem definition and root cause analysis.

Who Should Attend?

The QEP Program is designed to provide manufacturing employees with more in-depth exposure to quality tools and concepts and their importance to an organization’s long-term success. Manufacturing operators, leads, Supervisors, or quality technicians would benefit from this curated group of courses.