We utilize our expertise and experience to help you improve your bottom line by improving the quality of your Engineering, Manufacturing, Program or Project Management, and Logistics processes.

A typical project would include an initial assessment of "current state", followed by detailed recommendations for improvement.  Our aim is normally to assist you in implementation of our recommendations, although occasionally, we do simply provide a "Fresh Eyes" review and our recommendations, leaving you to decide which recommendations to implement.

Please note that we provide a variety of services in many industries.  Not all are represented on our website.   If you need a service not shown here, please don't hesitate to ask about it!   If, after working with you to assess your needs, we are unable to provide the services needed, we will be happy to refer you to one of the many firms with which we frequently do business.

Effective February, 2009, Poris and Associates is pleased to announce that we now offer Automobile Ownership Data to select clients.  Please see the "Automotive Mailing Lists" tab on this website for more information.

Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures

• Pre merger, acquisition or JV




• Assessment of overall operational strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities for improvement (Due Diligence)


• Recommendation of target company's suitability for intended purpose/function


• Post merger, acquisition or JV




• Process improvement


• All services listed below

Quality

• Supplier quality




• Third party intervention (on site at supplier)


• Supplier Quality Engineering support for overloaded SQE departments


• Problem resolution


• Supplier Development




• Pre-sourcing evaluations of potential suppliers


• Work with suppliers pre-launch to attain required quality levels


• Pre-PPAP audits


• APQP


• TS16949 Gap Analysis and preparation for formal audit


• Quality System Audits


• Definition and implementation of Quality Procedures and Policies


• Development of Product Development Plan


• QOS/QMS (Quality Operating System, Quality Management System) development and implementation


• Problem solving (5D, 8D, 5 Why, etc.)


• Temporary Quality Management


• Training in SPC, FMEA, Control Plan, etc.



Lean Manufacturing





• Assessment of current capability


• Value Stream Mapping/Analysis


• Cycle Time Reduction


• Process/Logistics Optimization 


• 5S


• Sustainable, long-term supplier relationship building


• Waste elimination


• Poke-Yoke (error-proofing)



Training (Note that we can facilitate any of the following in addition to providing training)





• Customized training in Quality and Lean Manufacturing


• APQP




• Customer wants/needs definition


• Quality Function Deployment (QFD)


• D/PFMEA


• Control Plans


• Product Development Planning


• Process Flow Charting


• Critical/Significant/Important Characteristic definition


• DVP&R


• PVP&R


• Measurement Systems Analysis (MSA)


• PPAP


• Problem Solving (8D, 5D, etc.)


• Quality Operating/Management System (QOS/QMS)


• SPC (Statistical Process Control)


• Lean Manufacturing




• 5S


• Poke-Yoke (error proofing)


• Value Stream Mapping



Manufacturers Representative Services





• Sales support


• Program/Project Management


• Liaison between customer and production facilities


• Technical liaison


• On-site customer assembly plant launch support (we can also arrange for ongoing support through a third party associate specializing in these services)


• Outsourcing assistance (of manufacturing and/or design)


• Definition of Statement of Work (SOW)


• Assistance in negotiation of price, terms and conditions


• Definition of launch timing


• Problem resolution


• On-site support during launch


• Quality representation of suppliers to their customers