NVQ L4 Business Improvement Techniques (Quality Improvement)

How does it work?
The NVQ L4 Business Improvement Techniques (Quality Improvement) course is made up of five mandatory assessments:

Complying with statutory Regulations & organisational Safety Regulations
Contributing to effective team working
Leading effective teams
Carrying out statistical process control procedures (SPC)
Applying six sigma methodology to a project
Carrying out six sigma process mapping
Applying basic statistics
Carrying out potential failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)
Carrying out project management activities
Plus three more optional assessment routes from:

Applying Six Sigma Metrics to a Project
Producing a Characteristic Selection Matrix
Carrying out Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)
Carrying out Capability Studies
Producing Multi-Variance Charts
Applying Hypothesis Testing
Carrying out Design of Experiments (DOE)
Carrying out Mistake / Error Proofing (Poka Yoke)
Plus two more optional assessment routes from:

Carrying out Evolutionary Operations (EVOP)
Applying Central Limit Theorem and Confidence Intervals
Producing Taguchi Linear Graphs
Applying Response Surface Methodology
Applying Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
Applying Hypothesis Testing
Carrying out Design of Experiments (DOE)
Carrying out Mistake / Error Proofing (Poka Yoke)

Workshop Aims
The NVQ L4 Business Improvement Techniques (Quality Improvement) benefits both employers and employees by offering alternative pathways and choice within pathways to suit the widest possible range of needs.

For employers the NVQ L4 Business Improvement Techniques (Quality Improvement) qualification can improve business performance and help win contracts, maximise company profits and revenues, reduce costs, variation and waste, assist with recruitment and retention, boost employee morale and motivation, demonstrate the quality of the workforce to existing and potential, customers help reduce workplace accidents.

For employees the NVQ L4 Business Improvement Techniques (Quality Improvement) qualification can provide evidence of ability to do a particular job, help improve career development/promotion chances, gives a sense of achievement, can be completed at a time and pace to suit.