Designing Experiments

Increasing profit, optimizing yield, reducing costs, minimizing waste are all important. Understanding processes, controlling them and reacting effectively to changing situations are all part of good management.

Designed experiments can be an effective tool to help understand & control technical processes. Combining Six Sigma tools with statistical experimental design gives an effective and efficient way identifying the conditions which give the best business benefits.

Carolyn has been successful with a range of production and manufacturing situations - including laboratory testing, filling machines, components manufacture - and achieved major benefits. Consultancy as well as tailor-made training is available for your business.

Validation

Successful validation of new processes is important to your business. It maintains compliance and can help improve both quality and yield.

How confident can you be about your validation? Running tests a few times with everything passing seem adequate. But, how much confidence do you have? Is it robust? Sometimes you need to be 99% confident - or even 99.9% - confident in your processes.

Carolyn has a wealth of experience - and has successfully provided specialist technical support on a wide range of validation projects. Support for specific projects - as well as tailor-made training for key staff - is available.

Acceptance Testing

How do you know that the quality of incoming goods meets your specifications? Are you confident that the results between different laboratories are equivalent?

When problems occur, there can be disagreements. Resolution needs to be quick and effective to avoid expensive consequences. Applying acceptance testing with its clear logical approach can provide a commonly agreed and understood process - and take the heat out of the situation.

Carolyn has extensive experience of acceptance testing and can provide the right advice. Specialist support and tailor-made training are available for your business.

Sampling

The most frequently asked questions from clients are: 'How many items do I need to check to be confident? How do I choose the items?' When receiving goods, you need to be confident they meet agreed quality criteria. When sending out goods, you need to be just as confident they meet your customers' specifications. Being genuinely confident means having the evidence to support your gut feelings.

Getting evidence is about obtaining data, taking samples, analyzing results and interpreting those results. Carolyn has extensive practical experience of sampling - sample sizes, confidence levels and sampling schemes - successfully applied to gain major benefits.

Monitoring Photovoltaic Systems

Photovoltaic systems provide renewal energy converting sunlight into electricity. Systems can be very small scale providing energy to run a patio light or extremely large covering the roof area of a large factory. Monitoring these large systems to ensure they are producing as much output as possible is vital. Carolyn is providing statistical expertise and guidance on ways of effective and efficient ways of monitoring these systems. Click for further information.