Integrated Management Systems

Chad Kymal is the CTO and founder of Omnex Inc., an international consulting and training organization headquartered in the United States. After graduatingfrom the General Motors Institute, Chad spent a number of years working at General Motors and KPMG before founding Omnex Inc. in 1986. Over the course of Chad’s successful career, he has served on the Malcolm Baldrige Board of Examiners and has received numerous quality achievement awards, including the Quality Professional of the Year award by the American Society for Quality (ASQ) Automotive Division in 2005. In addition to his bachelor’s degree from GMI, Chad holds both a master’s degree in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the University of Michigan. Chad both developed and teaches auditor training for ISO 9001, ISO 14001,and OHSAS 18001/ISO 45001, as well as an Integrated Management Systems Lead Auditor training course where all three standards are combined in a single audit. Chad is the founder of AQSR, a global registrar that routinely provided integrated audits in QMS, EMS, and OHSMS. Chad is the author of four books and more than 100 papers including severalon integrated management systems.

Greg Gruska, a Fellow of ASQ, is the principal consultant in performance excellence for Omnex. Greg is a member of the team that developed the new AIAG Effective Problem Solving guideline for practitioners and leaders (CQI-20 and CQI-21). He has taught and assisted hundreds of practitioners in problem solving methodologies and tools. Greg is also an active/writing member of the MSA, SPC, FMEA, EFMEA, and EPS Manual subcommittees of the American Automotive Industry Group (AIAG) Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force, which is part of the international task force governing ISO/TS 16949. Greg is an adjunct professor at Madonna University. He has advanced degrees in mathematics and engineering from the University of Detroit, Michigan State University, and Wayne State University. He was the Deming Memorial Lecturer at the Sheffield Hallam University for the year 2000. Greg is a charter member of the Greater Detroit Deming Study Group and the W. E. Deming Institute. He is an ASQ-certified Quality Engineer, a licensed Professional Engineer (CA – Quality), and a member of the Board of Examiners of and Judge for the Michigan Quality Leadership Award (1994-2011). Greg is on the writing committee of AIAG on FMEA, a member of the SAE Functional Safety Committee (J2980), and considered one of the foremost authorities on risk management in the world. He has considerable hardware and software experience in automotive applications.

R. Dan Reid, the Omnex Director of Consulting, is best known as an author of QS-9000, ISO Technical Specification (TS) 16949, ISO 9001:2000, the first ISO International Workshop Agreement (IWA 1), which applies ISO 9001 to healthcare and its replacement, AIAG’s Business Operating Systems for Healthcare Organizations (HF-2). He also worked on the Chrysler, Ford, and GM Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Production Part Approval Process, and Advanced Product Quality Planning manuals. While at AIAG, Dan led successful projects for Effective Problem Solving, Cost of Poor Quality, and Supplier Management. While at General Motors, among other assignments, he led the Supplier Development Administration, served on the Chrysler, Ford, GM Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force, which was responsible for QS-9000 and later ISO/TS 16949, and he established a Supplier Quality function at GM Service Parts. He later established a Supplier Quality function at Baxter BioScience Division’s Los Angeles plant before serving as the BioScience Divisional Supplier Quality Director. Dan, an ASQ Fellow and ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), has received numerous awards and is recognized for a number of accomplishments: • The first Delegation Leader of the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) • A member of the Parenteral Drug Association • A member of the American College of Health Care Executives • A published author with McGraw Hill, ASQ Quality Press, and others • A member of the ASQ Administrative Committee and Technical Reviewer • On the A2LA Board of Directors