Your Excellence-in Quality Partner!
We help manufacturing companies profit by optimizing product and process quality.
What We Do
At Summit Quality Consulting, our mission is to help companies maximize profits by enabling them to design and produce high quality products. Our adaptive approach to applying best practices in Design Assurance, Process Control, Data Analysis, and Problem Solving in R&D and Manufacturing helps you address your unique challenges to improve performance and profitability.
We work with you to establish your foundation of quality and continuous improvement, so that you can have the advantage your business needs to thrive in a competitive landscape.
Problem Solving
A structured process for discovering the causes and best solutions for your toughest problems.
Process Excellence
Understand and minimize variation, and scientifically control processes to produce the highest quality product.
R&D Excellence
Scientifically discover relationships between design features and product outcomes for optimal customer satisfaction.
Leadership Development
Developing management, scientists, and engineers to achieve their next level of excellence.
QMS Development
Gap analysis and system development to achieve both excellence and compliance to ISO 9001, ISO 13485, or AS9100D.
Executive Coaching
Listening to your needs, providing recommendations, and getting to actions that produce real results.
6 Signs You Need a Quality Engineering Partner
- Your defect rate is generating complaints and missed deliveries.
Defects are the largest cause of waste: the financial loss from a reputation of poor quality can’t be measured! - Problems keep coming back.
Your CAPA system is inadequate to prevent the recurrence of Nonconformities: problems reappear, “solutions” don’t stick, and teams end up firefighting the same issues over and over. - Your Lean Six Sigma tools are scattered.
Without a clear strategy, roadmap, and playbook, improvement wins are rare and momentum fizzles. - Problems are addressed Reactively instead of Proactively.
Clear standards, real-time feedback, and mathematical processes characterization give you the power to prevent problems before they occur. - Gross margin is flat—or slipping.
Hard work isn’t enough. You need a system designed for breakthrough improvement. - Your Improvement depends on a few heroes.
Sustaining a culture of scalable, continuous improvement requires broad engagement and methodical systems – ones that will outlive your few high performers.
30+
Years of
Industry Experience
Scientist. Quality Engineer. Quality Leader.
Six Sigma Black Belt. Certified Data Analyst. Lean Practitioner. Teacher.
Innovator. Leader.
500+
Scientists and Engineers Trained
Teaching scientists and engineers to reach new levels of competence. Classes include Problem Solving, Statistics for Engineers, PV, TMV, Risk Management, 5S, and more!
$10M+
One-Year Cost Savings Delivered
Like compound interest, delivering a project that reduces costs will multiply the improvement to the bottom line year
after year.
What They’re Saying
Customer Testimonials
Once again, you’re delivering the best I’ve ever seen.”
Teaching, Training, Coaching, Leading, and Engaging to Solve Problems and Improve Processes in R&D and Manufacturing
Industries We Serve
We proudly partner with a wide range of industries, including:
Manufacturing • Medical Devices • Aerospace
With capabilities across:
Injection Molding, CNC Machining, Sheet Metal, Biologics, IVD, Fabrication, and 3D Printing
Summit Quality Consulting, serving Minneapolis, Denver, South Dakota and throughout the US and more, is committed to helping companies solve their biggest quality problems: defect reduction, process improvement, complex data analysis, and building competence and confidence in your scientist and engineering staff. We deliver tools, training, systems, and solutions that help companies achieve significant, sustainable financial results through quality improvement. We are known for overcoming FDA observations and warnings, improving profitability, and giving leaders peace of mind that their operations are not just compliant, but also meet high standards of quality and efficiency.
Experience the confidence that comes from partnering with us.
