Training & Education


AOQ has arrangements with a number of training providers to provide discounts to AOQ members. Ensure you mention your AOQ membership when registering with any course to receive your discount and drop the AOQ Office an email with your feedback.

 

Training and Education Providers Network

The Australian Organisation for Quality(SA) has arrangements with a number of training providers to provide discounts to AOQ members.  Ensure you mention your AOQ membership when registering with any course to receive your discount and drop the AOQ Office an email with your feedback.

Please support those organisations that support AOQ and its members.

 

AOQ(SA) delivers mentoring in the BoK in preparation for ASQ Certifications

AOQ runs mentoring programs for American Society for Quality, Certified Quality Engineer and Certified Quality Technician and Certified Manager Of Quality/Organisational Excellence programs.  Courses are run on an as needed basis when a minimum of five candidates register with the AOQ office.  Register your interest for the next course with the AOQ Office now.  Further details of these certifications:

Certified Quality Engineer


The Certified Quality Engineer is a professional who understands the principles of product and service and quality control. This Body of Knowledge and applied technologies include, but are not limited to, development and operation of quality control system, application and analysis of testing and inspection procedures, the ability to use metrology and statistical methods to diagnose and correct improper quality control practices, an understanding of the human factors and motivation, facility with quality cost concepts and techniques, and the knowledge and ability to develop and administer management information systems and to audit quality systems for deficiency identification and correction. Certified Quality Engineer


Certified Quality Technician


The Certified Quality Technician is a paraprofessional who, in support of and under the direction of quality engineers or supervisors, analysis and solves quality problems, prepares inspection plans and instructions, selects sampling plan applications, prepares procedures, trains inspectors, performs audits, analyse quality costs and other quality data, and applies fundamental statistical methods for process control. Certified Quality Technician

 

AOQ(SA) introduces prospective candidates to the Certified Manager Of Quality/Organisational Excellence
The Certified Manager of Quality /Organisational Excellence is designed to provide the knowledge necessary for individuals who are involved in managing quality and dedicated to organisational excellence in order to obtain and maintain improvement. Individuals may seek certification from the American Society for Quality. Eligibility you must have 10 years of on-the-job experience in one or more of the areas of the Certified Manager of Quality/ Organisational Excellence Body of Knowledge. A minimum of five years of this experience must be in a decision-making position, defined as the authority to define, execute or control projects/processes and to be responsible for the outcome. This may or may not include management or supervisory positions. These certifications provide professional peer group recognition both nationally and internationally.
 

Register your interest in any of these Courses with the AOQ(SA) Office.

 

 

JLB

JLB has been a valued partner of AOQ for many years is the leader in management systems consulting, focussing on the manufacturing, healthcare, food and service industries specialising in Quality Assurance, Environmental Management, Safety (OH&S) and Food Safety/HACCP Programs.

With offices throughout Australia and Japan, we regularly consult and train throughout Asia. Our practical, down to earth approach sets us apart from the others and we welcome the opportunity to be of service to you.

While their Head Office remains in South Australia, JLB have established branches in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Darwin, and consult throughout Australia and South East Asia. All of their consultants are experienced professionals who work together to deliver the best possible service to their clients.

To support JLB's philosophy and maintain their excellent reputation, JLB was the first and remains one of only very few management consultancies to achieve quality certification to AS/NZS ISO 9001, signifying "we practice what we preach".

Check the JLB website for details of their current courses including:

 

 

University of South Australia

UniSA's Strategic Partnerships unit delivers corporate education programs for industry, government and commerce to support employee and organisational development .

Strategic Partnerships customises the delivery of UniSA business education programs to companies and industries wanting to undertake business and management studies as distinct organisational or industry groups.

Strategic Partnerships works with industry to identify and customise university programs to meet their particular training and development needs aligned with their corporate objectives. The team of UniSA's Strategic Partnerships unit  actively develop a partnership between the company or agency and the University to develop courses and programs that deliver the required learning outcomes. UniSA's Strategic Partnerships unit manages all the arrangements to ensure smooth delivery of the programs. For the company or industry, working as a group facilitates the development of dialogue around their key strategic issues in a non-threatening environment.


Check the University SA Strategic Partnerships website for details of their current courses including:

  • Corporate and Executive Education: Management and Leadership Development Programs
  • Lean Management Series: The Lean Thinking & Lean Management Philosophy
    Six Sigma Series

The current Strategic Partnerships Workshop program includes:
Total Quality Series

The University of South Australia provides a series of tertiary award courses in the management and control of quality as well as the list below of non award quality training topics. For further information to meet your specific needs, contact our staff and they will provide the various alternatives available. 

Have your own enterprise specific training delivered in-house

 

Other topics available

Process Control & Quality Planning, Mistake Proofing (Poka Yoke), Performance Measurement

 

UniSA Contact for Education

Sandra Walker +61 8 8302 0801 Sandra.Walker_at_unisa.edu.au