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Organizations and Publications
American Institute of
Chemists (AIC)
American
Chemical Society (ACS)
American Institute of Chemical
Engineers (AIChE)
Association for Supply Chain
Management (ASCM, formerly APICS)
Automotive Industry Action Group
(AIAG, outstanding quality management and improvement material usable
in most
industries)
Elsmar Cove (free help and good
networking for the quality management profession)
Institute of Certified Professional
Managers
(ICPM)
National Society of Professional
Engineers
Patient Safety Quality Healthcare
Pennsylvania
Training for Health and Safety (PATHS) Free occupational health and
safety (OHS) webinars, always well done
Project Management Institute
(PMI)
Quality Digest
Quality Magazine
Society of Manufacturing Engineers
US Chemical
Safety Board
YouTube Channel. (Excellent resource for chemical process safety)
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Frederick Winslow Taylor told us this in 1911 (Principles of Scientific Management).
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Specializing in Quality
Management Systems, Advanced Industrial Statistics, and Lean
Manufacturing
Vision and Mission Statement
The site is named for Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, who
turned a medieval society into a prosperous and industrialized nation.
Less than 20 years after Twain published this story (1889), a
self-taught mechanic with little formal education transformed the
United States from a largely agrarian nation into the wealthiest and
most productive nation on earth.
Henry Ford believed and proved that industry holds the
solution to most of society's problems. Nothing has happened to change
this; manufacturing, and only manufacturing, can create almost
limitless wealth. Manufacturing is the foundation of the United States'
affluence and national security, and our nation must preserve and
expand its manufacturing base. Industrial methods can also reduce the
cost of services while improving their quality, and this has critical
implications for health care. It is the mission of Levinson
Productivity Systems to help clients achieve this vision through lean
manufacturing, statistical, and quality assurance methods.
What We Do
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Training and
Consulting
- Webinars (60
to 90 minutes) on the following subjects
- Occupational
health and safety (ISO 45001:2018, 6S = 5S + Safety).
- Corrective and
preventive action (CAPA) and root cause analysis (RCA)
- Acceptance sampling
(ANSI/ASQ Z1.4 for attributes, Z1.9 for variables, zero acceptance
sampling, sequential sampling, narrow limit gage sampling)
- Lean manufacturing
(identification of waste or muda, Shingo process maps, Henry Ford's key
performance indicators, theory of constraints, cycle time, cost of
quality analysis)
- ISO 9001:2015
as our servant, not our master
- ISO 14001:2015 and
ISO 50001:2018 to reduce costs and improve the bottom line
- Organizational
culture (ISO 9004:2018)
- Advanced quality
planning: process failure mode effects analysis (PFMEA) using
the new AIAG/VDA manual. This is a significant improvement over
previous approaches.
- Statistical methods
(statistical process control, design of experiments, short run SPC,
process capability analysis including
methods for non-normal distributions) New: guard banding for non-capable
gages, process performance indices in the context of lower detection
limits or non-detects, and narrow limit gauging
- Recommendation for
ASQ certification exam preparation: If you are comfortable with
self-study, I recommend the Quality
Council of Indiana primers based on successful personal experience
with them. Read the material and work the examples in the books, and
then work the practice questions in the primer and on the practice exam
CD. I was able to prepare successfully for certification exams in this
manner.
- If your organization wants an instructor-led review
for Certified Quality Engineer, Certified Quality Technician, Certified
Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence, Certified Reliability
Engineer, or Certified Quality Auditor, Levinson Productivity Systems
PC can teach them for a fixed price for any number of attendees.
The price is per
course, not
per person. Travel and lodging (per generally accepted guidelines) will
be charged for on-site training but the past year has shown that online
is effective, and saves time and money all around.
Consulting
Consulting services are available in the areas shown above
Free Resources
"How Henry Ford
Saves Men and Money" By Louis Resnick. National Safety News, September 18,
1920. This is in the
public domain due to age (1922 or earlier but we have added numerous
annotations
that underscore valuable safety principles that are directly applicable
to ISO 45001.
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Products
Disclaimer: Nothing on this web site
constitutes formal engineering or occupational health and safety
(OH&S) advice.
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Free Continuing Education Resources
Here are some free sources of online training and
professional development. They may be relevent to ASCM, ASQE, and/or
professional engineering with continuing education requirements. In
some states, continuing education courses must be accredited (e.g. by
the Practicing Institute of Engineers in New York State); in others,
the content needs only to be relevent to what you do. In all cases, you need some kind of proof
that you completed the event. If no certificate of attendance is
issued, my own approach is to provide a copy of the notes I took during
the presentation, whether online or in person.
- Association for Supply Chain Management (ASCM, formerly
APICS) North Jersey,
online events are free.
- National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE) PE
Institute WORKability Wednesdays
- These are free only for NSPE members. You must pass a
simple quiz on the content to get a certificate of attendance.
- Pennsylvania
Training for Health and Safety (PATHS)
- These are free and always very well done. Certificates of
attendance are issued. May be relevant to certifications if you deal
with workplace safety or ISO 45001 (occupational health and safety
management systems).
- Quality
Digest recorded webinars (this publication also offers live
webinars, and I believe with certificates of completion).
- SPC Press (Dr.
Donald Wheeler), offers 15 online lectures on statistics and
statistical process control.
Official Company Statements
Levinson Productivity Systems PC has no positions
on political and similar issues except for those shown below.
Contact Us
Bill Levinson, P.E., FASQ, MBA
Levinson Productivity Systems P.C.
6 Lexington Court
Wilkes-Barre PA 18702
570-824-1986
TheBoss "at" ct-yankee.com
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