Company Training Courses

Trying times

Training really follows the academic year, busy September to December and then again January to June. Summer, with many companies on holiday is the quieter time. Here at SQT we tend to divide the year into two just as I mentioned, September to December and January to June. Summer...

Evaluating Lean Six Sigma projects: A quick guide to SMART projects

One of the most common things I hear from Lean Six Sigma trainees is ‘I wish I knew that when I was selecting this project’. While you can never really be guaranteed that your project will work out according to plan there are a few things you can do to make sure you avoid som...

Lean Six Sigma – A strategy for business success, Part 3 of 3

Continuing from earlier … When choosing Projects to tackle, they should be SMART: – Specific: A narrow focus (to avoid lengthy projects that never finish) – Measurable: Data availability is good / plentiful – Achievable: The focus area is within our control or influen...

Ni bheidh a leitheid ann aris

What makes a company? Its customers Its staff Its suppliers I thought of this saying “Ni bheidh a leitheid ann aris.” when visiting one of our suppliers recently. The Nenagh Guardian does a lot of printing for us at SQT. SQT was previously based near Nenagh and we con...

The importance of coffee

Over a cup of coffee a few months back with Kevina O’Donoghue, our tutor on “Contamination Control”, the idea of starting up a Cleanroom Network was raised (nothing like caffeine to trigger the creative buds). We spent the next few weeks talking to companies wit...

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