Services

 Advanced Quality Planning

Risk...Risk...Risk

EStream's fresh-eyes approach helps to determine if current processing and systems are robust and suitable, or can benefit from integrating lessons learned before new program launch. Starting with known process performance and improvements made as a results of previous risk reduction provides a good new process start point.

So what further risk still remains, that can impact upcoming process or product changes? That's what Failure Mode Effects Analysis is for.

FMEA is the beginning of understanding the workings of your process that affect exposure to product performance and thereby quality/warranty, and delivery predictability. And then changing or adding controls to make it better. The activity is called Advanced Product Quality Planning, or APQP. It does not only get done before a program starts, but should be done at a regular frequency to look for improvement opportunities.

It's a team activity-your team, with our mentoring that investigates and finds solutions. Home-grown solutions, often costing very little, that make your processes more robust to variables both in, and often out of your control. And because they are YOUR solutions, you have an accountable process owner for their benefits, and knowledge to continue to further reduce performance risk.

 Launch Assistance  

  Supplier Performance

EStream Supplier Assistance, frees up or supports your resources at those times when they are better utilized performing higher priority value added activities.

At the request of you or Supplier management EStream helps your Supplier to determine if assistance is necessary to prevent launch problems or implement permanent Quality performance  improvement. We report out to you and/or your Supplier leadership and recommend:

• Weaknesses to be resolved
• What assistance is recommended
• Supplier Training needs to implement
• Oversight and validation of improvement activities

 Development of ongoing supplier development, using your performance metric, or one developed for you would be used to measure performance improvement

 Skills Improvement  

EStream can develop and deliver team skills training customized to your needs, or can provide additional content upon request

  Lean / Kaizen / 5S   

EStream can help you understand the opportunities for improvement in your processing that can be realized using these tools. Improved output, managed inventories, and processing supervision are outcomes of successful implementation.

• Match output with demand
• Standardized work
  
• Improve First-Time Yield
• Reduce Inventory Value
• Free up resources