• Gain a basic understanding of the Core Tools used in New Product Development as well as for ongoing process control for existing products.
• Focus on New Product Development Assurance through APQP and PPAP
• Understand the importance and necessity of APQP & PPAP to meet customer requirements
• Focus on the use of Process Management to achieve standardization and improvement using Process Flow
• Take part in FMEA reviews in your organization and contribute to CFT meetings
• Conduct basic SPC & MSA studies and interpret results.
• Participate in FMEA discussions
• Add value in Production/Manufacturing Services through effective implementation of the core tools

Learning by doing approach: The entire program is divided into 5 sessions (Total 34 hours) on Core tools. Sessions are staggered over weeks to give inputs in stages along with assignments

• Session 1: Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) :3 hours each on 14th to 15th December 2021, Total 6 hours
• Session 2: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) 3 hours each on 21,22,23 December 2021, Total 9 hours
• Session 3: Measurement System Analysis (MSA), 3 hours each on 28,29,30 December 2021, Total 9 hours
• Session 4: Statistical Process Control (SPC), 3 hours each on 4,5 January 2022, Total 6 hours
• Session 5: Production Part Approval Process (PPAP)  6 January 2022, 4 hours
• Quiz question sets in every session to ensure participants have understood the topics.
• Assignments after each session ( 4 sets of assignments ) to ensure participants not only learn the theory, examples, case studies during training but also become competent to practice by themselves.
• Participants to complete the assignments and submit before the next session
• Review of assignments for corrections / improvement
• Final test and Assessment
• Certification issued after completion of assignments and final test
• Soft copies of Training Material and Case studies will be given after the training.

The program is designed to ensure participants can effectively learn and implement Core Tools of Quality in their own projects in the industry.

This course is ideal for those who are responsible for product development, operations management, quality control, and engineering including department managers, supervisors, quality representatives, engineers and administrative staff who have a focus on business improvement, performance and profitability.

This programme will be conducted by Mr M. C. Ramakrishnan, Former Vice President -Quality, Bosch Limited & Mr Gautam Doshi, Advisor, IMTMA.

Mr M. C. Ramakrishnan is an industry expert with over 40 years of experience in the field of quality tools like Six Sigma, SPC, MSA, Poka - Yoke etc. He is a trained ISO 9001 and TS 16949 auditor, trained six sigma black belt as well as an FMEA moderator. He has championed a number of Quality Improvement projects at Bosch. He was associated with Bosch's campaign and pursuit for 5S, Poka Yoke, SPC, MSA & TPM initiatives.

Mr Gautam Doshi is a B.Tech. (Mech) from IIT, Powai and an industry expert with over 45 years of experience in Machine Tool and Automotive industry. He has conducted several training programmes, seminars & workshops on machine tool related subjects. He is a consultant to reputed companies in the area of Productivity and Quality improvement and an Adviser to many companies manufacturing automotive components and Dies & Moulds. Mr Doshi is former Vice President & Technical Director, PMT Machine Tool Automatics Ltd., Pune and has also served in Tata Motors for over 5 years. He is the author of several IMTMA publications such as 'First Time CNC', Guidelines on Process Capability to name a few.