Building Big Company Capability for Small Manufacturers
Providing quality, training, and leadership insight since 1995.
At Quality in Practice, we put ideas into practice. We build on years of experience creating, iterating, and executing innovative plans to revolutionize the approach to common business issues. Our values favor enabling action oriented professionals with the right amount of knowledge and the right tools to succeed. This practitioner approach has yielded significant results over decades.
Principal consultant James Wells is a certified Master Black Belt in Six Sigma and a Certified Lean Specialist for Manufacturing. He has started four continuous improvement program deployments over decades and has personally yielded over $140,000,000 in savings over that time. A thought leader and innovator in the Quality discipline, he has led Quality functions across six different industry segments.
Overview
Your Success
With a proven track record of delivering significant business results over decades across a variety of industries, we have the experience to help your organization achieve its goals without adding overhead. We have experience ranging from Operational Quality to Operational Excellence to Organizaitonal Change Management.
Build Capability Within the Team You Already Have
The Quality In Practice Academies help small manufacturers strengthen Operational Excellence and Quality capabilities without building large internal functions. Practical, application-focused programs give leaders, supervisors, engineers, and quality professionals the skills and methods to solve problems, improve processes, make better decisions, and sustain results.
The Operational Excellence Academy focuses on the systems and practices that improve operational performance, while the Quality Academy builds the capabilities needed to manage quality across the business and strengthen customer outcomes.
Programs can be delivered as individual courses, focused learning pathways, or company-specific capability development programs designed around your operation and its priorities.
Build Stronger Operations From Within
Develop the people, systems, and problem-solving capabilities your business needs to improve quality, strengthen operational performance, and sustain results. Quality In Practice helps small manufacturers build practical capabilities within their existing teams, creating improvements that continue long after the training or engagement ends.

