Your Operational Excellence Partner
We help manufacturing companies profit by optimizing operational efficiency and output quality.
What We Do
At Summit Quality Consulting, our mission is to enable companies to achieve Operational Excellence. Our adaptive approach to applying best practices in quality, Lean, Six Sigma, and Data Analysis helps you address your unique challenges to improve performance and profitability.
We partner with companies to help them achieve excellence in R&D and operations.
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.
Lean Transformation
Discover the safest, highest quality, least-waste way to produce product. The ultimate in efficiency!
Problem Solving
A structured process for discovering the causes and best solutions for your toughest problems.
Six Sigma
Understand and minimize variation to give your processes the highest quality level.
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 an Operational Excellence Partner
- You haven’t measured your value-add time.
This single metric reveals whether your factory is highly efficient—or quietly bleeding margin. - Your Lean Six Sigma tools are scattered.
Without a clear strategy, roadmap, and playbook, improvement wins are rare and momentum fizzles. - Problems keep coming back.
Nonconformances reappear, “solutions” don’t stick, and teams end up firefighting the same issues over and over. - Visual management is missing.
Clear signage, real-time metrics, and visual cues show everyone, everywhere if they’re winning or losing in their operation. - 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.
