Speaker Profile
WILLIAM LEVINSON
William A. Levinson, P.E., FASQ, CFPIM is the principal of Levinson Productivity Systems, P.C. He is an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Quality Auditor, Quality Manager, Reliability Engineer, and Six Sigma Black Belt, and the author of several books on quality, productivity, and management.

William Levinson
July 08 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
60 Minutes
Modified DD2977 as alternative to FMEA
The Automotive Action Group's and VDA's relatively new (2019) Failure Mode Effects Analysis manual is probably the best and most advanced approach available. It assigns occurrence and detection ratings for failure modes based not on probabilities of occurrence, which are often hard to quantify, but rather on the nature of the prevention and detection controls in the process. It also replaces the risk priori..

William Levinson
August 05 2025
01 : 00 PM EST
90 Minutes
Corrective and Preventive Action (CAPA) and Root Cause Analysis
Corrective and preventive action (CAPA) is required by ISO 9001:2015 and is also common sense; we don't want to have to solve the same problem more than once. The automotive IATF 16949:2016 standard adds additional requirements for root cause analysis. Inadequate CAPA and/or root cause analysis are leading sources of ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 audit findings, and also FDA Form 483 citations. A search for ..

William Levinson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
How to Address ISO's New Climate Change Requirements?
ISO 9001:2015's successor, and other ISO standards, will soon include clauses related to climate change. The good news is that, if your organization already has a process to address risks to continuity of operations, including risks associated with climate-driven weather events, it is probably doing most if not all of what it needs to do to meet the new requirements. It is however important to not divert su..

William Levinson
Recorded Webinar
60 Minutes
Seeing the Waste: Henry Ford's Lean Success Secret
Enormous waste (muda) can hide in plain sight for years or even longer because everybody in the workplace takes it for granted, and is used to living with it or working around it. This waste can however consist of up to 95 percent of the labor, and a large portion of materials and energy as well. Henry Ford, whose success speaks for itself, identified three key performance indicators (KPIs) for waste that e..