Quality Companion Training Courses Description

Please find below the course descriptions for France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg and French-Speaking Africa. You may access the training offering for the rest of Europe and the World on line.

We may provide training in English or French. Please contact us for information about Training in German or Italian.

Using Quality Companion

Length of training: 2 Days

Decrease the time required for planning, organizing, and executing your process-improvement projects by quickly learning to navigate Quality Companion’s user-friendly and customizable environment. Following a single case study, learn how to identify a potential project and quantify its risks. Define and scope the project to more easily gain buy-in from key stakeholders. Learn to use Quality Companion’s built-in Roadmaps and Coaches as a way to explore common process-improvement methodologies and determine which tools and statistical analyses are appropriate at any phase of the project. Define a process and manage its activities to gain insight into the value stream, or flow of value, through the process. Evaluate which inputs are critical to the problem you are trying to solve. Create a presentation directly within Quality Companion.

Topics covered include: Quality Companion environment, Project Manager, Roadmap, Coaches.

Tools covered include: Process map, Fishbone diagram, Y metrics, Ballots, Presentation, Analysis Capture tools, and various form tools such as Project Prioritization Matrix, Project Charter, C&E Matrix, Capability Rollup Report, FMEA, Control Plan, and more.

Customizing Quality Companion

Length of training: 1 Day

Save time and money and increase consistency throughout your organization by using the advanced customization features of Quality Companion. Modify tools and projects to reflect your preferred quality improvement methodology. Using practical examples, learn how to create custom project and tool templates that can be stored as permanent software options and shared with others. Modify the default format of selected tools by varying their colour, font, structure, and layout. Customize global and project data sharing to synchronize the information flow in your projects, ensure consistency of data, and increase efficiency. Design project forms to meet your company's specifications by adding graphics (logos), custom formatting, form fields, formulas, graphs, and hyperlinks. Create your own Coaches and add them to tool and project templates.

Topics covered include: Project templates, Tool templates, Template folders, Related documents, Tools options, Format defaults, Process Maps, Data Store, Making and Importing Variables, Global data sharing, Project Data Sharing, Forms (Design mode, Fill-out mode, Layout Tables, Data Tables, Form controls, Form protection), Custom Coaches.