The Quality Port

The Quality Port

If you’re interested in learning about topics relating to Quality Management Systems, you’ve come to right place!

Welcome to the Quality Port!

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  • The courses offered on this site cover topics pertaining to Quality Management Systems (QMS) and how they relate to various manufacturing industries. The curriculum was written by someone with nearly 40 years of experience in the manufacturing industry.
  • The courses offered on this site are all completely online. You can take them whenever you want to, whenever it is convenient for you. You can pause a course and complete it later if you get interrupted.
  • Examples are provided from several different industries, so your knowledge base will increase as you complete each course.
  • Once you pay for a course, you’ll have unlimited access to it for 90 days.

Who Can Benefit from the Training Courses Offered on This Site?

  • You are involved in the Manufacturing Industry, or you want to be.
  • You are unsure about how Quality Management System requirements noted in the various standards, such as ISO 9001 and IATF 16949, affect manufacturing processes you might be responsible for or involved in.
  • You want to learn how to improve the manufacturing processes you are involved in or responsible for, as well as the QMS aspects associated with those processes.
  • You are preparing for an audit, and you want to know what the auditor might ask you and the issues that could be cited as nonconformances.
  • You have been asked to do an internal audit or to audit a supplier.

How The Quality Port Is Different from Other Training Websites

  • When you look at other sites, it’s hard to figure out who wrote the courses, because they get traded around from site to site. And as these courses get traded around, the content often gets watered down.
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  • The people who write these courses might be able to read a standard and regurgitate its requirements to you. But this type of training is pretty bland and doesn’t provide you with real-life examples that will contribute to your knowledge base.
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  • Other training sites charge you thousands of dollars to participate in a webinar. You’ll pay much less when taking classes here at The Quality Port, and you’ll probably learn more.
 

Before developing The Quality Port, I looked at many different sites to see if someone else had already covered the material I wanted to present. They had, but it mostly sucked. Here are the things that separate this site from the competition:

 
  • The curriculum has all been developed by me. Many other sites collect content from wherever they can get it and whomever they can get it from. The information can come from teachers and content creators who vary in how they approach a topic and explain it to the student. Although this is a good way to offer many different classes, it’s not a good way to consistently convey information that will be useful to you.
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  • The developers of content on competitors’ sites have no real-world experience in factories. They might be auditors, but they have never worked in a factory. I have nothing against auditors. But if you have worked in a factory, you know there is a big difference between teachers who have actually lived the topic versus those who have not. My years of working in factories have provided me with a plethora of information and stories, which I tell throughout these courses.
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  • The competition’s material is dry and boring. The curriculum in my courses is interesting, fun, and entertaining. I love telling stories when a lesson can be learned.