New Product Devt & DFSS

Our extensive curriculum supports the specialist topics within New Product Development and Design for Six Sigma. Choose from individual modules which cover essential topics to transform concept ideas into high quality, market-ready products. Our accredited DFSS programmes develop expert practitioners at Green and Black Belt level.

Course Title	Duration	Open Enrolment	In-Company
7 Tools of Quality	1 day	✘	✔
APQP/PPAP	4 hours	✘	✔
BS8888 Basic Draughting Principles	1 day	✘	✔
BS8888 Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing	2 days	✔	✔
Concept Generation & Selection	1 day	✘	✔
Design for Assembly	1 day	✘	✔
Design for Manufacture & Assembly	2 days	✘	✔
Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Introduction	1 day	✘	✔
Design of Experiments	3.5 days	✔	✔
FMEA (Design)	1 day	✘	✔
FMEA (Process)	7 hours	✔	✔
Measurement System Analysis	1 day	✔	✔
Minitab Foundation	1 day	✔	✔
Process Capability	1 day	✘	✔
Quality Function Deployment	1 day	✘	✔
Statistical Process Control	2 days	✘	✔
Value Engineering	1 day	✘	✔
Variation & Tolerance Analysis	1 day	✘	✔

Design of Experiments

Design of Experiments (DoE) is a powerful and practical way to analyse multifactor process/product variances. This course provides practical, hands-on training in the application of Design of Experiments (DoE), exploring the essential elements that range from upfront requirements needed to launch an experiment (planning, resource support, stakeholder approvals) all the way through to running the experiment and analysing results. The training explores different types of DoE which are suitable for a wide variety of applications and market sector uses for both product development to process optimisation.

Duration:

3.5 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

11 - 19 August 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

21 November - 4 December 2025

8:30 AM – 4:30 PM UTC

Duration:

3.5 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Also available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Minitab Foundation

For people involved in general statistical analysis, this workshop offers the ideal introduction to Minitab software. The course is aimed at first time users of Minitab but assumes a basic understanding of statistics & statistical analysis. The training will focus on the foundation level features of Minitab – showing how to enter & manipulate data to produce graphs & perform basic statistical analysis.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

27 May 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

25 July 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

3 October 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Also available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Process Capability

This training workshop delivers tools that enable and ultimately provide an understanding of capability – how well the system performs, in terms of how comfortably the output results are within the limits of acceptability for that system.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Variation & Tolerance Analysis

Understanding the effect of input variation on output performance via tolerancing has been traditionally been done via ‘worst case’ or statistical (RSS) approaches. Now that Monte Carlo Analysis can be performed via Minitab, we showcase the use of this powerful and flexible tool. We also turn to the progression from the critical to design measures (CTDs) and the processes that will create them and their critical to process measures (CTPs). Finally, we look at effective piloting of new processes as part of process development.

Duration:

1 day

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No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Value Engineering

This training workshop is a gateway module to identify the value and cost issues facing a design team. These are then assessed to determine what actions are necessary to address them. The VE method is fully described and practiced, showing delegates how to assess any product design to optimise its value to the customer.

Duration:

1 day

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No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Quality Function Deployment

QFD is a powerful development technique that ensures customer requirements drive the new product introduction process. Simple matrices are used to capture & analyse information, & delegates progress through the key stages of prioritising customer requirements & technical characteristics, selecting concepts, design deployment & production control, & managing the overall QFD process.

Duration:

1 day

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No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Measurement System Analysis

Manufacturers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to obtain adequate confidence in their measurement systems. This is important for process control, for the assurance of quality, and for process improvement. This highly practical course will enable delegates to assess the performance of new and existing measurement systems, and considers how improvements can be introduced when they are found to be necessary.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

4 April 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

10 June 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

11 August 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

17 October 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Also available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Introduction

Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) enables companies to deliver competitor-beating products to market in less time and at lower cost. This course aims to introduce product developers to the DFSS tools and approach through a series of interactive hands-on workshops.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Statistical Process Control

This practical course provides practitioner training in how to control and improve process variation and performance.

Duration:

2 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

2 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Design for Manufacture & Assembly

One of the most powerful techniques for reducing production costs, DFMA forces designs to be analysed for assembly ease and shows how to re-design to reduce time-to-market, and increase production efficiency. The course is based upon the Boothroyd Dewhurst approach, and provides a step-by-step framework to enable immediate application in the workplace.

Duration:

2 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

2 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Design for Assembly

One of the most powerful techniques for reducing production costs, DFA forces designs to be analysed for assembly ease and shows how to re-design to reduce time-to-market, and increase production efficiency. The course is based upon the Boothroyd Dewhurst approach, and provides a step-by-step framework to enable immediate application in the workplace.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

FMEA (Process)

Process FMEA is a mandatory requirement for most companies and also provides a framework to drive continuous improvement activities. This 1-day workshop overviews the process steps, including incoming sources of variation – using process flowchart and characteristic matrix.

Duration:

7 hours

Instructor-led delivery dates:

16 - 17 April 2025

12:00 PM – 4:00 PM UTC

Duration:

7 hours

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Also available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

FMEA (Design)

FMEA is a mandatory requirement for many companies - providing a process for categorising failures in order to prioritise items of risk. This practical workshop will step delegates though a case study based workshop - learning how to analyse the product functions in terms of risk, identify failure modes and effects, and understanding how to set priorities using the severity rating scale.

Duration:

1 day

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No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

Concept Generation & Selection

The tools of Concept Selection can be used to help take the best concept forward for refinement in the detail design part of the process. Using a structured approach avoids weak concepts and project delays and disruption occurring.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

BS8888 Basic Draughting Principles

This 1-day course concentrates on the key principles required to read & interpret engineering drawings. Exercises are used to bring to life and highlight the importance of this essential (but often weak) design skill.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

BS8888 Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

This 2-day course is aimed at delegates who have little or no knowledge of using Geometrical Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T). The course is suitable for all engineers as the objectives are to provide a basic understanding of the symbols and how they can be used to solve problems.

Duration:

2 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

28 - 29 April 2025

7:30 AM – 3:30 PM UTC

Duration:

2 days

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Also available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

APQP/PPAP

This course concentrates on the essentials of APQP & PPAP process required to set-up new product development in accordance with QS9000.

Duration:

4 hours

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

4 hours

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)

7 Tools of Quality

This one day course aims to provide delegates with an understanding of the classic ‘7 Tools of Quality’ and how these can be applied both within the context of Practical Problem Solving and in stand-alone work applications for daily work.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

No dates available. Please contact us for more information.

Duration:

1 day

Instructor-led delivery dates:

Only available as an in-company course (delivered onsite or virtually)