What is Belfield IQ?
Belfield IQ (Industrial Quality) is a training and education resource for the manufacturing industry. Our mission is to help factories become true experts at making their products. Every year, manufacturers lose far too much due to quality problems. It isn’t a small leak. It’s a flood of wasted time, money, and opportunity. Belfield IQ teaches advanced techniques for industrial problem solving, root cause investigation, and quality excellence so manufacturers can eliminate chronic defects, recover lost profit, and achieve world-class performance.
Belfield IQ
Every manufacturer should be the true expert at making their own products. Yet too often, companies struggle with defects, waste, and recurring problems that stand in the way of excellence. Our mission is to change that. Through Belfield IQ and advanced quality training, we turn problem solving into a pathway for learning, mastery, and lasting improvement. Belfield IQ is more than a method—it’s a movement to help manufacturers move beyond firefighting and get closer to excellence in quality.
Belfield Academy
Belfield Academy is our online training platform where you can register for courses and start right away. All courses come with a certificate and our Industrial Problem Solving - Advanced Techniques course can result in a certification as a Problem Solving Journeyman or Problem Solving Master
Belfield Investigative Method
For many, problem solving starts out with brainstorming. But that's a creative tool. Problem solving is an investigation into a process that yields some defects. You want to approach it like a detective solving a crime. This course teaches many tools that can develop you and your team into world class problem solvers.
Advanced Quality Engineering
Quality engineers are among your most valuable people and yet many companies have them performing technical administration tasks. Don't waste that talent, develop it and assign them to solving your tough problems. They will develop key insights into your processes with every project.
Generating Knowledge
You have built your factory, your system of production, and it may be good but it needs to be better. The defect rates are too high. That's true in almost every company. Problem solving is learning the very things you need to learn about your processes so you truly become the experts.
Cost of Quality
The model shows us where we are spending money to make good product and where we are losing money due to poor quality. If the goal of management is economic performance, then the Quality group has to reduce the failure costs to a low level. Most or all of your Quality department is working on Prevention and Appraisal, few work on reducing failure costs.
Competitive Edge
Solved problems save big money and generate new knowledge. This knowledge applies to several other areas of the factory. It also gets added to your list of things to look for in your next FMEAs. You learn to control the things that can hurt you and all this gives you a competitive advantage.