Areas of Expertise
Quality Systems
Jim Toth Solutions, LLC has experience in setting up ISO 9001 quality systems in technical workplaces. We’ve been trained in the additional requirements of IATF 16949 quality systems. We conducted over 100 CQI-11/CQI-12 audits in a wide range of companies as an internal auditor as well as auditing third party suppliers. We can help ensure that your next customer visit or audit goes smoothly and without findings
Process Troubleshooting
Electroplating and coating operations are a complex series of steps that must all be conducted properly to yield the desired end result. Despite robust quality systems and good control plans, things sometimes do not come out as planned. If your staff does not have the skills to tackle a difficult problem, contact Jim Toth Solutions, LLC to bring 40 years of experience with 1000’s of hours spent watching a process line for the key to correcting a problem. Troubleshooting cannot be done from the front office, it must be done out on the line, with a trained set of eyes that can focus on the small differences that result in defects in your products.
Project Management
After getting that new customer or business, you need to focus on the acquisition and start-up of new equipment, if you only had the time. You are required to do your everyday job along with getting ready for something new. Let Jim Toth Solutions, LLC work with your operations, quality, engineering, and management staff to ensure that a proper project plan is laid out, and followed, with checks in place to highlight if things fall behind before it is too late to recover. We have experience managing simple line upgrades, up through installation of multi-million dollar complex lines.
Process Management
Your control plan is the roadmap describing how you manage your processes. Does it contain everything that your customers expect, and more basically what the process requires? Let us assess your process as a set of outside eyes to ensure that your process management is robust and that what you say is do is actually what you do. We can work alongside your team to help improve the quality of internally conducted audits.
New Process Start-Up
You and your team might have 20 years experience processing parts on barrel lines. When the customer asks for an improved alloy coating, is your staff up to the task of working though unfamiliar chemistries, tests, and control checks? Jim Toth Solutions, LLC can work with your team, and if needed with vendors to help ensure a trouble-free start-up. Need new equipment, but don’t have the time to oversee the installation and new-line shake-down? Call Jim Toth Solutions, LLC for that extra set of dedicated hands. Preparation of new work instructions, control plans, quality checks, as well as PFMEA reviews is part of our service.
Global Expertise
Companies today have global exposure - with operations or customers across the world. Jim Toth Solutions, LLC stands ready to tackle your biggest issues, whether they be across town or 12 time zones away. Travel to Europe (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, England), Asia (Korea, China, India), Central & South America (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina), and South Africa has been and can be done in addition to across the United States. Jim Toth Solutions, LLC can spend the time necessary to ensure that your project or concern is addressed in a timely and professional manner.
Process Control
You always want your process to be operated within the specified control ranges - but is it really under control? Jim Toth Solutions, LLC can assess your entire process control system to help ensure that the correct tests are being done properly and accurately. If you need assistance defining how to conduct a test, or to evaluate the results, Jim Toth Solutions, LLC can work with your team to ensure that all requirements are being met.
Electroplating training
Quality systems like ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 have requirements for workers and supervisors being competent for the job and tasks they perform. Are they? It is important that they know WHAT to do, WHEN to do it, and HOW to do it. Your control plan identifies WHO should do it. But who on the team understands WHY these tasks are important and how they ultimately impact the quality of the parts they are coating? Jim Toth Solutions, LLC can prepare training appropriate for your processes to help ensure that new and senior employees as well as supervisors understand the importance of their roles and the work they do every day .
Equipment
Plating and coating operations require specialized equipment to deal with harsh environments, ensuring the health and safety of operators, and ultimately leading to quality parts being produced. Jim Toth Solutions, LLC has contacts with many suppliers of equipment needed by the electroplating and coating operations. Contact us for assistance in identifying the correct pump or filter for your process and process volume. We have contacts with many of the best in the industry. Contact us with your needs to see how Jim Toth Solutions, LLC can help make this task easier.
Contact us today to discuss how the Jim Toth Solutions, LLC electroplating consulting services can assist your organization with any of the above areas of expertise. Don’t see what you need? Contact us for availability!
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