We see things from a different perspective:
Quality is a source of competitive advantage.
Your company with a good Quality Management System (QMS) will provide confidence to your customers that your organization will comply with their requirements while adapting to industry standards in a continuous improvement exercise of its own effectiveness. Variant 180 will help your organization build and maintain an effective QMS using the process approach and effective design, manufacturing, purchasing and sales processes.
Too often Management sees Quality Management Systems as a necessary addition to the organization to improve customer perception. Variant 180 will ensure your QMS investment nets ROI in efficiency, profitability, customer satisfaction and overall health of the organization.
We Create a Culture of Quality
Variant 180 performs a thorough analysis that results in defining the requirements and the tasks to be achieved to ensure that the quality and reliability of the product meet the specified requirements. This culture of quality focuses on its objectives at all times, namely but not limited to:
Ensuring that the quality effort is applied early and maintained throughout to promote the reliability expected of the product, design and manufacturing in it’s daily execution;
Ensuring that all phases of requirements analysis, design, development, procurement, manufacture, integration, test, delivery and post-delivery are continuously monitored for efficient feedback and adaptation when required;
Ensuring communication channels are constantly used for proper and constant awareness through the product cycle between users, suppliers, manufacturers and customers.
A situation may arise in which your product(s) and/or service(s) fall under more than one industry standard. In such cases, Variant 180 will ensure that sufficient external and independent reviews are performed to guarantee that the end items conform to the requirements. Variant 180 achieves this goal through technical and review meetings as required.
We Utilize State-of-the-Art Tools
Variant 180 will maintain a Quality System compliant to the most appropriate standard(s) to your business and/or product(s). We will be responsible for guiding you toward ensuring the adequacy and quality of materials, articles and services. We will work with your subcontractors to ensure the applicable quality requirements as specified by contract are being met. Variant 180 will generate the documents specified in and required by the Statement of Work (SOW).
We Make the Complex Simple
By identifying the precedence of relevant requirements applicable to a contract between you and your Customer, Variant180 will establish best logistics flow to simplify your business. This is implemented by identifying:
Key versus secondary / nice-to-have requirements specified in the Contract;
Areas of your business that will require more attention in order to support one customer versus another;
Key personnel for efficient interaction between you and your customer and assurance that the requirements are being complied with.
We Prioritize Key Levers
Through a thorough analysis of your product versus your customer’s requirements, we will ensure that you and the latter are both fully aligned as to the key levers for a smooth and efficient interaction while ensuring conformance to requirements. Industry standards provide a great general baseline for quality, but the particularities of one product or service versus another are what needs to be prioritized to give your business the edge.
We Embrace Customer Centricity
Variant 180 will monitor your performance as well as that of your major subcontractors and suppliers through progress meetings, audits, test surveillance and pre-shipment reviews to an extent determined after a risk assessment. The customer may attend in accordance with the terms of the contract.
We are Experts in Quality Management
Variant 180 will plan, organize, document, and control its support activities to your business in a manner that ensures that your customer’s contractual requirements are satisfied. We will identify short comings and introduce preventive measures to reduce the risk of recurrence. Objective evidence and records will demonstrate that the requirements have been met.
“Variant 180 played a pivotal role in helping us adapt a standard used by very large corporations to become an effective quality system ”
“Variant 180 is a very professional, customer-focused consulting firm dedicated to helping you overcome any barriers to establishing an appropriate quality management system and receiving a formal certification for it.
Working with Variant 180 enabled us to see that upgrading our manufacturing process to incorporate a quality management system did not have to be mysterious or onerous. We already had many of the required elements in place. Variant 180 helped us conduct a gap analysis, put the remaining pieces of the puzzle in place, and implement controls to keep the quality system functioning properly.
Variant 180 played a pivotal role in helping us adapt a standard used by very large corporations to become an effective quality system that could be executed by a small business with a handful of employees. Techniques and policies that work for large corporation often need to be trimmed to the essentials for use by small businesses. Variant 180 was instrumental in understanding the root requirements and implementing them in a meaningful and workable manner, useful for a small company. Enlisting help that can effectively make this transition is a key to success for small companies wanting to become AS or ISO certified. Variant 180’s impact in this area cannot be underestimated.
Charles L. Goldsmith
Ph.D. President, Memtronics Corporation
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We are dedicated to ensure that you get the best out of your business and product. We are determined to walk with you until you achieve this goal. We remain available for subsequent support on an as required basis.
