Webinars

Enterprise AQP Software Aerospace Industry
Omnex is offering a free webinar that offers insight and knowledge regarding the use of prevention-based techniques used for an on-time and low PPM product launch using Enterprise AQP software. These techniques include Project Planning, Project Reviews, Project Risk Analysis, SFMEA, DFMEA, PFMEA, and Control Plan. AQua Pro – AQP software is used by thousands of companies worldwide – will be discussed as an important tool for implementing Risk Management in Aerospace organizations.

Understanding Energy Management Systems – ISO 50001
This webinar provides an understanding of ISO 50001 Energy Management Systems or the EnMS standard which was written to support the urgent need in the world today of reducing Green House Gasses (GHG) through efficient energy use. According to the ISO Secretary General

Lean Implementation Workshops
Lean manufacturing was accepted as an innovative paradigm that eliminates waste, relentlessly strives to maintain harmony in the flow of materials and information, and continuously attempts to improve. Many companies that report initial gains from lean implementation often find that improvements remain localized, and the companies are unable to sustain lean continuous improvements in an on-going basis.

ISO 26262 - Writing a Defensible Safety Case
The webinar will further explore the requirements of a Safety Case for a Safety Element Out of Context or SEOOC. Many organizations may seek to provide evidence of 26262 without fully implementing ISO 26262.

Effective Problem Solving
This webinar will walk through the Effective Problem Solving process and will identify how it relates to common problem solving approaches by using a case study.

Aerospace Auditing - Best in Class Techniques
A webinar by Chad Kymal, CTO, Omnex Inc., on auditing Aerospace quality standards

Planning and Conducting the Enhanced FAI
This webinar will examine the purpose of the First Article Inspection (FAI) as the culmination of the AQP process. Additionally a high level overview of the planning and preparation necessary for an enhanced FAI/AQP will be addressed.

Reviewing the Enhanced FAI
Reviewing the Enhanced FAI

AS9100 Rev C and Risk Management in the Aerospace Industry
Key changes in the new AS9100 Rev C standard may appear simple. However, one key factor frequently being overlooked involves Risk Management. How does your organization plan on handling Risk Management, Analysis and Flow Down?

Food Safety Management Fundamentals – Document Management Systems and Audit Management
All Food Safety Management Systems consist of a number of common management system fundamentals that include Document Management Systems,HACCP, Audit Management, Policy, Objectives and Review, Corrective/Preventive Actions and Continual Improvement. Lessons Learned and Best Practices including the use of Enterprise-wide Integrated Management Systems (EwIMS) for both Document and Audit Management will be explored in this 1 hour webinar.

Risk Assessment, Characteristics Designation and Flow Down
This webinar addresses the application of the knowledge captured in S/DFMEA and PFMEAS related to risk assessment, including the cascading of risk information to critical part requirements.

Implementing Food Safety and Quality – SQF, BRC, and FSSC 22000 including HACCP Systems w/ ISO 9001
This webinar will present the food safety standards and the implementation of Food Safety and Quality Management systems in an easy to understand step-by-step method.

Top 10 Best in Class Techniques in Aerospace Auditing presented by ASQ author Chad Kymal
A one-hour webinar where Chad Kymal shares some of his Aerospace auditing tips that will benefit your organization.

Significance of ISO 26262 - Functional Safety Analysis in Automotive H/W and S/W
With the anticipated release of ISO 26262 the standard for Automotive Functional Safety later this summer, Omnex has received a number of requests to host a second webinar to serve as an overview of ISO 26262

Process Tools Including PFMEA and Associated Tools
This webinar offers insight into the linkages between various aspects of the Advanced Quality Planning (AQP) process. Specifically, the development and linkage of Process Flows, PFMEAs, Control Plans and shop floor documentation are addressed. This information can be used to achieve process standardization and improvement.

Reduce Sentinel Error Risk and Improve Patient Safety Through Best Practices
Todays health care industry is focusing its efforts on reducing errors and sentinel events in hospitals, physician offices and labs. In fact, the industry as a whole is promoting an error prevention culture and adopting tools that are currently used in other industries such as Healthcare FMEA (HFMEA) and root cause analysis (RCA). HFMEA and RCA have recently become Joint Commission requirements, so it is important to understand these tools and how to use them effectively to reduce risk.

Enterprise-wide Integrated Management Systems
EwIMS Release 3.7.0 (formerly EwQMS) is coming! In order to celebrate the release and rebranding of the Enterprise-wide Integrated Management System, Omnex Systems would like to invite you to a very special webinar being held by key members of the EwIMS development team. This 2.5-hour webinar will highlight the functionalities and benefits of the latest release of EwIMS and will also give you a preview of things to come in 2010.

Implementation Challenges of AS9100:2009, AS9110:2009, AS9120:2009 and AS9101:2009
AS 9100:2009, Quality Management Systems Requirements for Aerospace, Defense, and Space was released earlier this year and AS9101:2009, Quality Management Systems Assessment will be released shortly - potentially as soon as this week. The goal of these releases is to dramatically raise the "On-Time and On-Quality Delivery (OTOQD) performance" in the Aerospace, Defense, and Space Industries, which will directly impact the implementation as a whole.

Implications of Food Safety Management Systems including GFSI, SQF, FSSC 22000, HACCP and Prerequisite Programs
High-profile food safety scares in the marketplace have pushed the food industry towards improvement. Change is hitting the entire industry at an unprecedented level. The major food manufacturers and distributors, as well as the largest retailers in the world such as Wal-Mart, Tesco, Delhaize, Ahold, Migros, Metro, and Carrefour, have agreed to adopt Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standards.

Integrated Management Systems Risk Management
This webinar discusses the integration of ISO 9001:2008 or ISO/TS 16949:2009, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 into a single Integrated Management System using an integrated Enterprise Risk methodology, hosted by Omnex founder and CTO, Chad Kymal.

Enterprise Audit Management
Planning, performing and managing audits in a multi-site organization is not a trivial task. Moreover, how should the nonconformities be managed company-wide? How does the manager overseeing audits from a central location manage the risks to the organization?

Managing Documents in the Global Environment of the 21st Century
One of the biggest problems in any improvement activity is the lack of immediate access to the documents needed. Knowing that another site tackled it before is not enough; getting it NOW to solve the problem is key.

What is Enterprise Quality? Why You Cannot Do Without It?
Enterprise Quality was coined by Chad Kymal in 2002. Since then, Enterprise Quality Software has truly evolved. Today, we define Enterprise Quality as two different suites: Enterprise Quality Planning and Enterprise Compliance Management, or Enterprise Integrated Management Systems.

ISO 9001:2008 Might Be More Significant Than You Realize
On June 12, 2009, Chad Kymal, CTO and Founder of Omnex and John Arvay, Director of Business Development with NSF International Strategic Registrations, presented a one-hour webinar discussing the significance of the ISO 9001:2008 changes on existing Quality Management Systems.

Automotive Certification Scheme for ISO/TS 16949:2009: Rules for Achieving IATF Recognition 3rd Edition
On December 8, 2008, Chad Kymal, founder and CTO of Omnex, presented a short one-hour webinar discussing the key changes in Automotive Certification Scheme. This Scheme must be followed for IATF recognition.

Omnex Webinar: Semiconductor Industry Best Practices in Quality - Series 1
On November 21, 2008, Chad Kymal and Rick Adams spent an hour discussing the use of FMEAs and Control Plans in the semiconductor. They were joined by Greg Gruska, who is a member of the AIAG writing committee for MSA, SPC and FMEA.

Omnex Systems webinar: Managing Documents in the Global Environment of the 21st Century
On July 1, 2008 a joint Omnex/Omnex Systems/Omnex Secure webinar was hosted by Greg Gruska, with assistance from Dave Watkins and Greg George. This short, one-hour presentation discusses the challenges and risks involved in maintaining documents globally and demonstrates how a document control software package can help you overcome these challenges and risks.

Omnex Webinar: Developing Suppliers in India and China (Flash 9.0 video link) (Get Flash Player 9.0)
In this one-hour executive level webinar, Omnex CTO Chad Kymal discusses the challenges and some techniques for taking a proactive role in ensuring supplier quality.

Omnex Systems Webinar: Software for Integrated Audits (Flash 9.0 Video link) (Get Flash Player 9.0)
On August 3, 2007, Greg Gruska and Don Cherry of Omnex Systems discussed the complications of developing audit plans within a multi-standard setting. The discussion concluded with an analysis of the most important features to look for in an auditing software package.

Omnex Webinar: Achieving Operations Excellence through Unified Lean/Six Sigma (Flash 9.0 Video link) (Get Flash Player 9.0)
On July 19, 2007, Greg Gruska and David Watkins made a presentation on philosophies, strategies and results of implementing Unified Lean/Six Sigma in the organization. When implemented correctly, the results can be amazing.

Omnex Webinar: Juggling Multiple Standards - Integration, Standardization and Linkages (9MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
On April 2, 2007, Omnex CTO and Founder Chad Kymal led participants through the key areas of integration when dealing with multiple standards implementations in a single organization.

Omnex Webinar: Increasing Energy Efficiency through MSE 2000 (15MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
On April 5, 2007, Omnex Canada's Robert Toth introduced participants to energy challenges and the new management system for energy, MSE 2000, which was released in 2005.

Omnex Webinar: Effective Program Management to Achieve Rapid Product Development & Launch without Surprises (11.5 MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
Join Omnex Executive David Watkins for a no-cost webinar on effective Program Management. Knowledge management is the key to effective, accelerated program management. It is essential to stop re-inventing the wheel and repeating the same failures!

Omnex Webinar "Healing Healthcare: with a Little Help from our Friends" (4.7 MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
Proven improvement strategies from industry are being deployed with great success in healthcare. Industry experts in Lean, Six Sigma, Quality Systems Management and others are collaborating with medical providers and hospitals to improve quality and lower costs. We will explore a few successes and take a look into the drivers of a growing strategy to accelerate the pace of improvement.

Omnex Webinar "How to Be a Truly Awful Supplier - Chapter 1: Discourage Problem Solving" (4.6 MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
We explore the industry and company behaviors that prevent effective problem solving. And for those who don't really want to be an awful supplier we will explore the ways to go about creating an effective problem solving culture.

Omnex Systems Webinar - Knowledge Management: Back to Basics (5.5 MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
Niels Bohr said, "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." Shouldn't knowledge management simply mean being able to transfer what the expert has learned without having to repeat all the same mistakes? In this webinar we will explore some time-proven methods for doing just that.

Omnex Systems Webinar - Use it or lose it! We're spending all this money on training; why aren't we getting results? - May 17, 2006 (7 MB Webex File) (Get WebEx Player)
Like anything else in business we spend money to make money. Training should be one of our most lucrative investments, but often it just doesn't seem to meet expectations. In this session we explore the failure modes of training and proven methods to ensure that training contributes directly to the bottom line.