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Does your company need to improve its processes?

McDonald Consulting Group can provide assistance to companies looking to achieve significant business results through process improvement techniques. Some of the methods we employ include:

• Business Process Improvement (BPI) – our Process Improvement consultants will use Business Process Mapping and Improvement tools to understand how the organization works. Business Process Improvement is the output of a process map analysis. Click here to find out more…
• Performance Excellence Consultants (PE) – We offer both Lean and Baldrige-based Performance Excellence support.
• Performance Excellence using Lean: Our Lean Consultants will review your organization and help you go through a Lean implementation. We’ll provide expert Lean Enterprise implementation assistance as you move forward and can provide training on all Lean tools, including 5S, Value Stream Mapping, and more.
• Performance Excellence using Baldrige: An experienced MBNQA Examiner works with you to review your entire process using the Baldrige assessment criteria. We’ll work with you to train your personnel, and analyze your organization to provide not only an assessment of your organization, but also a roadmap for organizational improvement across all major areas, based on the gap analysis findings. Whether for your own internal use, or in preparation for a local, state, or national submission, we’ll provide you with straightforward and actionable feedback. We’ve helped committed organizations raise their score by 200 to 250 points… and we can help you.

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Quality effects your bottom line.  If your company would like to save time, errors, and raw materials thereby increasing your bottom line, implementing QMS in order to standardize and streamline the repeatability of processes will help.

You can implement a QMS that is compliant — either by registering externally to the international standard ISO 9001; or by implementing a system that meets the requirements.  Either way, McDonald Consulting Group can help you implement the system that works for you.

The McDonald Consulting Group has been guiding companies through the ISO implementation process since 1995. With a 100% successful implementation rate our record speaks for itself!

Our approach is custom tailored to your organization. We work with you to maintain your company culture and style. There is not a “one size fits all” implementation package from McDonald Consulting Group – every engagement is customized to your needs.

Our consultants have broad industry experience, credentials, and certifications, and we pride ourselves in our ability to make your QMS work for you. In fact, we are not limited to ISO 9001:2008, we can help you with any industry specific ISO standard.  We’ve done successful implementations in ISO/TS 16949, AS 9100, AS 9120, and TL 9000; and have worked with partners to help our clients upgrade their certifications to ISO 13485 and ISO 17021.

We are not satisfied until you are, which means we’ll be there to answer your questions every step of the way — before, during, and after your registration.

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• Does your business use energy and water?
• Does it make or receive shipments?
• Does it buy raw materials or produce waste?

If you answered yes to any of the above, your business needs an environmental management system (EMS).

Setting up and running an EMS can provide significant benefits across a number of areas of your business.

Running an effective EMS will help you with:

• better regulatory compliance – running an EMS will help ensure your legal responsibilities are met and more easily managed on a day-to-day basis
• more effective use of resources – you will have policies and procedures in place that help you manage waste and resources more effectively and reduce costs
• marketing – running an EMS will help you prove your business’ credentials as an environmentally aware operation that has made a commitment to continual environmental improvement
• finance – you may find it easier to raise investment from banks and other financial institutions, which are increasingly keen to see businesses controlling their environmental impact
• increased sales opportunities – large businesses and government departments may only deal with businesses that have an EMS
• lighter regulation – even if an EMS is not a regulatory requirement, by showing your commitment to environmental management, you may benefit through reduced fees and charges from environmental regulators

Environmental Management Systems are implemented in organizations in order to identify, monitor and measure environmental aspects of processes. Organizations who have implemented an EMS have seen increased environmental performance.

The McDonald Consulting Group can help you implement the system that works for you:

• by helping you register externally to the international standard ISO 14001;
• or by implementing a system that meets the requirements but is self-declaring.

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Why does your company need an Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS)?

• Having a OHSMS in place provides your company with confidence that you are in conformance with governmental health and safety policies.
• An OHSMS shows commitment and awareness of health and safety issues and potential issues to third parties and demonstrates responsibility, and provides a framework to address all future health and safety concerns, while ensuring that there is a defined methodology in place to address each potential risk before the problem occurs.

McDonald Consulting Group can help you implement the system that works for you whether you implement a compliant OHSMS — either by registering externally to the international standard OHSAS 18001; or by implementing a system that meets the requirements but is self-declaring.

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Implementing a hazardous substances standard within your company, regardless of the standard you choose to implement, creates a win-win situation for both your company and the environment.

• Your organization will realize improvements from implementing a green system;
• hazardous environmental consequences will be minimized or eliminated;
• you’ll be able to show external, independent validation that your company is environmentally friendly.
• That independent validation will ultimately produce the kind of green that lines your pocket.

McDonald Consulting Group works with you to help your business certify to RoHS, WEEE, and HSF 954/QC080000.

• RoHS– The Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Regulations contained in the RoHS Directive (2002/95/EC) ban the placing on the EU market of new Electrical and Electronic Equipment (EEE) containing more than the set levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium and both polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants from July 1, 2006. There are a number of exempted applications for these substances, still more exemptions being considered.  Other countries and states are adding their own requirements to the mix, making it more difficult to ascertain applicability from country to country.
• WEEE - The Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive (2002/96/EC) sets requirements relating to criteria for the collection, treatment, recycling and recovery of WEEE. It makes producers responsible for financing most of these activities; retailers/distributors also have responsibilities in terms of the take-back of WEEE and the provision of certain information.
• IEA/ECCB 954 or QC 080000 – The standard, entitled “Electrical and Electronic Components and Products Hazardous Substance Free Standard and Requirements” has the reference EIA/ECCB-954 and was released in March 2005 and later updated to QC 080000. This standard specifies technical requirements that manufacturers must meet to ensure that their products conform to new environmental limits, including compliance with the European Union (EU) directives for Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE). It allows an organization to demonstrate that they are meeting the requirements of RoHS and WEEE, and to receive external 3rd party confirmation of their compliance.

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