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Nutek, Inc. was established in 1987 by its president Dr. Ranjit K. Roy as a consulting company specializing in training and implementation of quality improvement techniques for the manufacturing industries. Our primary emphasis is on implementation of the Taguchi experimental design technique and Project Management Principles. Toward this objective we provide application oriented training seminars, help clients (consulting) with application of the technique and our user-friendly Qualitek-4 software which facilitate experimental design and analysis. (US Govt. Registered Contractor: Cage/NCAGE : 3CF61)

 

 

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WHAT WE DO BEST
At NUTEK, we're quality engineering specialists. It's our business to solve quality-related production or manufacturing problems, and to teach clients how to do the same. Our main focus is on real-world applications, not theory. We've taken the methods developed by pioneers in the field and streamlined them to fit the practical needs of American manufacturers today.

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   Press Releases (PR) and Reference Links:

PR-06 MetaMarketing Studies Help Auto Dealer Achieve Improved Sales
PR-05: DOE in Marketing Applications
PR-04: Aug 2005 DOE Seminar in Troy, Michigan
PR-03: DOE Seminar for US Navy in Norfolk, VA
PR-02: Ilearn and Nutek Collaboration
PR-01: Nutek Inc. & Fouresquare LLC to Apply DOE in Marketing  

1. Report on use of DOE in Bio-Med Reserach =====
http://qualitydigest.com/QDarticles/FMPro?-db=iq%5feditorial.fp5&-lay=article%20data%20form&editorial%20type=IBMArticle&release=yes&-format=QDarticle_text.html&articleID=6175&-script=cntaccesstype&-Find
2. PR:Quality Digest http://qualitydigest.com/QDarticles/FMPro?-db=iq%5feditorial.fp5&-lay=article%20data%20form&editorial%20type=QINews&release=yes&-format=QDarticle_text.html&articleID=6707&-script=cntaccesstype&-Find
3. DOE Demystified..   :  http://manufacturingcenter.com/tooling/archives/1202/1202qmdesign.asp
4. 16 Steps to Product... http://www.qualitydigest.com/june01/html/sixteen.html  
5. Read an independent review of Qualitek-4: http://www.qualitydigest.com/jan99/html/body_software.html
7. A Strategy for Simultaneous Evaluation of Multiple Objectives, A journal of the Reliability Analysis Center, 2004, Second quarter, Pages 14 - 18. http://rac.alionscience.com/pdf/2Q2004.pdf 
8. DOE Test Samples for Marketing Applications - How many is too many? -  Download this white paper (PDF) by Dr. Roy and David Bullock,    http://www.results-squared.com/images/DrRoy_Article.pdf
9. Other articles on Taguchi methods:  http://www.amsup.com/media.htm  
 Use of the Taguchi DOE in Online Marketing by Ranjit K. Roy

 
 

 

 

Quality Engineering International

 
  

American Society of Mechanical Engineers

 

World Leader in Continuous Improvement

 

   Business Excellence Enablers, Mumbai.

   
  

Asia Pacific Research Center, Singapore


 

Oakland Community College, MI

Kellogg Community College, MI

 
Alion System Reliability Center
 

White Associates - marketing Specialists


Central Contractor Registration, US Gov.

 

General Service Administration, US Gov.

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Our Independent Associates

Dr. Leonard David Stimley; Ph.D. Is the Owner and Principle Consultant of Mobius Consulting Group, LLC . His background includes Senior Level Quality Management, Business Process Analysist, Six Sigma - Master Black Belt/Deployment Levels, Lean Concepts and Applied Statistics. With over 30 years experience at companies such as Motorola, Cisco/Scientific Atlanta, RCA and United Technologies, Dr Stimley blends Six Sigma/Lean Methodologies, Leadership by Doing, Management Expertise, Analytic Problem Solving and Rational Decision Making , Data Analysis and Applied Statistics to solve your most complex and annoying production and process problems. His strengths in motivating, training, and developing people, business administration and management, business intelligence, financial and production data analysis have allowed him to complete such varied assignments as: Starting/Developing a Six Sigma Community from ground zero. Leading or providing guidence to over 125 quality and efficiency improving projects with over $60M in savings. Serving as an interim manager of a multiplant/multinational quality function while the companies production facilities were being moved between locations. Saving a distressed quality programs and retaining key customers through effective containment and rapid improvement projects. Developing financial forecasting and warrantee reserve models for an electronic products manufacture to allow them to get control of their costs. Dr. Stimley has a BSEE degree from the University of Arkansas where he specialized in Biomedical Engineering and minored in mathematics. He has both an MBA and Ph.D. from California Coast in Business Management and Administration whwere he did his research in Financial Analysis. He is also a Registered Financial Consultant (RFC) and one of only a handful of specialists to receive the RFG (Registered Financial Gerontologist) designation for his studies in financial planning for seniors.

Mike Comerford, President, Shamrock Consulting Group is an associate specializing in delivering Design for Six Sigma services utilizing Nutek's Robust Design Project Support services. With more than 26 years experience in management consulting, Mr. Comerford started his own firm, Shamrock Consulting in 1989 to service the engineering and technology industry in the Mid West.  Shamrock Consulting concentrates on product quality and organizational efficiency.  The firm has been heavily involved in TQM, Zero Defects, ISO, QS and TS quality systems and has published many training programs in these areas.  More recently Shamrock has been involved in Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) and has developed a novel DFSS training program. 
      Mr. Comerford came to the USA from Ireland in 1986 to start-up a defense industry company whose products included actuators for the Tomahawk Cruise Missile, the F16 fighter and the Patriot Missile launching system. He  holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s Degree in Industrial Engineering Management from University College, Dublin.
      Mr. Comerford has been active in the community.  He was volunteer chairman of the Council of Small Enterprises from 1993 through 1995 and a member of the main Board of Directors of the Greater Detroit Chamber of Commerce (now The Detroit Regional Chamber) from 1995 through 1997.  He is a Past Commodore (1997) of Grosse Pointe Sail Club.   

Larry R. Smith is the current president of the Altshuller Institute for TRIZ Studies and has been involved in numerous applications of TRIZ since 1993.   

A Fellow who also served as national director of the American Society for Quality 2004-2006, Smith retired from the Ford Motor Company where his career emphasis was in quality engineering and product development. He was instrumental in initiating a Six Sigma effort at Ford and also championed a volunteer Environmental Idea Process Team, focused on developing ideas related to design and manufacture of vehicles whose use improves conditions for human beings and the environment.  Mr. Smith is Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Larry holds three Master's Degrees: in metallurgical engineering and physics from the University of Michigan and in industrial engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he is also a part-time faculty member.

Ranjit K. Roy,Ph.D., P.E.,PMP, president of Nutek, Inc., is an internationally known consultant and trainer specializing in the Taguchi approach of quality improvement. Dr. Roy began his career with The Burroughs Corporation following the completion of graduate studies in engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1972. He then worked for General Motors Corp. (1976-1987) assuming various engineering responsibilities, his last position being that of reliability manager. Dr. Roy established his own consulting company, Nutek, Inc. in 1987 and currently offers consulting, training, and application workshops in the use of design of experiments using the Taguchi approach. He is the author of A PRIMER ON THE TAGUCHI METHOD - published by the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in Dearborn, Michigan and Design of Experiments Using the Taguchi Approach: 16 Steps to Product and Process Improvement published (January 2001) by John Wiley & Sons, New York. Dr. Roy is a fellow of the American Society for Quality and an adjunct professor (1977 - 1999) at Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan.

 

Greg Adams, President of iLearn System of Bloomfiled Hills, Michigan is an independent associate of Nutek, Inc. collaborating in pursuing Federally funded research under NIH-SBIR grant.Jay Chandra, Ph.D 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr. Jay Chandra, an independent consultant and trainer, and the founder of Quality Engineering International, LLC, had served for more than eleven years as an in-house consultant and trainer for Eaton Corporation, an eminently successful 12 billion Dollar engineering/manufacturing company in the USA. In order to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations, he voluntarily retired from Eaton where he is well known for his following contributions: 

· Developed innovative forward-looking Quality Engineering perspectives and tactics 

· Developed and taught a major part of the in-house Six Sigma Master Blackbelt        program.

· Created and taught the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) program for the company in all its businesses worldwide

· Trained about 5000 engineers and project leaders in manufacturing and R&D in Quality and Reliability programs including Six Sigma (both traditional and DFSS) at Greenbelt, Blackbelt and Master Blackbelt levels in the Americas, Europe, and Asia.  

      Dr. Chandra’s passion is to unleash the power of the modern Quality Engineering technology to help organizations achieve business excellence. 
       Driven by his innate love of teaching, Jay served the University of Notre Dame, IN for three years as a full-time visiting professor in their School of Business. He taught Operations Management courses to MBA, Executive MBA, and BBA students.    
      Jay is a mechanical engineer, and has a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN.

 

Michele Morrissett, President of FoureSquare LLC of Troy, Michigan is an independent associate specializing in the unique Metamarketing® application process of the DOE technique for marketing and advertising. 
Since she was a child, Michele has asked anyone who will listen, “why?”  Why do we have to do things this way? Can’t we try something different? After many years of learning and asking “why?” , she chose to follow her heart and start her own company.
      Ms. Morrissett’s 20 years of experience in both domestic and international marketing, customer service and sales honed her ability to see the unique and diverse needs in our global economy.  She has implemented many innovative processes and projects that leverage brand similarities, while respecting the need for personalization.  Her proven track record of managing multi-million dollar budgets and continually finding efficiencies by reducing complexity makes her very effective in root cause diagnosis of a problem and applying the most effective solution.   
     As part of FoureSquare’s on-going evolution, the new marketing response optimization technique called Metamarketing® was developed.  The mathematically based process provides business owners with statistical trends of influence for their specific markets. Metamarketing® allows businesses to affordably test multiple designs of selected offers and delivery types to determine the optimal way of achieving greater customer response with the greatest R.O.I.    Marketing tools that can be tested include but are not limited to; direct mail, e-mail, newspaper, radio, web site and point of purchase materials.

“Find your passion and pursue it, always be true to yourself, don’t compromise your integrity or quality and stay focused.”

Those are the tenants that FoureSquare was founded on to provide stellar customer service and solutions that meet business needs in today’s evolving global economy.  
     Ms. Morrissett is a graduate of Michigan Technological University with a BA in Marketing and has attended the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University for specialty Marketing courses.

 

Richard Morrissett, director of FoureSquare LLC of Troy, Michigan is also an associate of Nutek, Inc. assisting in the application of the unique Metamarketing  process for marketing and advertising.

     Richard’s quest for achieving quality and finding ways to save money for corporations has been a lifelong passion.  His early career was spent at General Motors for nine years where he gained hands on assembly line experience.  His subsequent 26 year career at Ford Motor Company led him from process engineering to supplier quality assurance/systems management for cars and trucks to product planning.  One of his most significant contributions was the key role he played as Product Planning Manger in the development of the 1986 Taurus.  The building of the core team, his ability to foster teamwork and appreciate the strength that diversity brings is one of Richard’s greatest talents. 
        After retiring from Ford, Richard started his own consulting company specializing in training for all aspects of quality, durability reliability.  He specialized in teaching engineering classes associated with electrical electronics and body construction.  He currently consults with companies on innovative ways of evolving traditional processes. Richard graduated from General Motors Institute with a BSME and has an MBA from the University of Detroit.
     

Our Primary Training Specialization:
Nutek offers 4-day seminar with hands-on application workshop intended for practicing engineers & scientists, in the use of the Taguchi Experimental Design Technique. The first part of the seminar is dedicated to teaching application techniques through actual case studies. The focus is on the "method" rather than the "math". Practical application steps, including brainstorming, are discussed in detail. The third day is dedicated to the mathematical basis and the application steps. The methods for achieving experiment layout, calculations, main effect, interaction study, ANOVA and factor influences using the Qualitek-4 software are also discussed. Attendees are able to apply the method immediately after completing the seminar.

Our training seminars on Design of Experiments (DOE) using the Taguchi approach, provide an immediate working knowledge of quality building techniques. Always application-oriented, our teaching is aimed at helping your engineering, manufacturing and production specialists implement quality improvement plans from day one.

 

  

Our user-friendly Qualitek-4 software automates Taguchi experiment layout and performs complex calculations in matter of seconds. It also analyzes results, and makes recommendations for product and process design improvements.

Our consulting services offer immediate solutions to difficult and persistent problems. We work with your project teams to plan experiments, analyze results, and make recommendations for improvements. Our comprehensive application consulting services support clients in the following three phases of the projects:

Phase I      Facilitate Experiment Planning
Phase II     Design Experiment and Describe Data Collection Procedure
Phase III    Analyze results, prepare and present reports

     

 

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Partial List of Nutek, Inc. Clients
[Companies listed are either users of Qualitek-4 software or sponsors of our onsite seminar sponsors]

Marketing Optimization Companies

  • Offermatica, San Francisco, Ca
  • Citrix, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • Expirion, Costa Mesa, CA
  • Graff Chevrolet, Flint, MI
  • BBDO Atlanta, Atlanta, GA

Nutek, Inc. 3829 Quarton Road, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302, USA.   Tel: 1-248-540-4827           Email:  Support@nutek-us.com