Raising the Bar: Building Enterprise Excellence Through Connected Quality
Overview
Manufacturers today face increasing complexity, from rising customer expectations and workforce transitions to growing pressure for operational efficiency. The organizations making the greatest gains aren't simply reacting to quality issues. They're building systems that enable continuous improvement, reduce risk, and create consistency across the enterprise.
Join Mike Vitek, Director at Sandalwood Engineering & Ergonomics, and Angela Anderson, Program Manager at Octave, for a practitioner-focused discussion on how manufacturers are applying proven quality disciplines such as APQP, FMEA, process controls, and corrective action management to drive operational excellence across aerospace, industrial manufacturing, chemicals, and beyond.
For manufacturers committed to moving beyond firefighting and building a culture of operational excellence, this session offers practical insights and proven approaches from organizations leading the way.
Host Company
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Octave provides enterprise software that helps organizations design, build, operate and protect critical industrial and infrastructure assets. Octave supports decisions across the full asset lifecycle where performance, safety and reliability matter and failure is not an option. Octave connects engineering, operational and safety workflows, enabling customers to convert complex operational data into decisions that improve performance, resilience and incident response across real-world environments. Octave has more than 7,000 employees in 45 countries. Learn more at octave.com and follow us on LinkedIn.
Presenter
Mike Vitek
Angela Anderson
Agenda
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Eastern time
11 a.m. Welcome and introduction
11:05 a.m. Presentation
11:45 a.m. Questions from audience
12 p.m. Conclude
PARTICIPANT BENEFITS
Discover how leading organizations are:
- Enabling continuous improvement through connected quality processes that turn lessons learned into lasting organizational knowledge.
- Reducing waste, scrap, rework, and recurring defects by linking risk management, process controls, and corrective action.
- Standardizing best practices across sites while empowering teams to identify and solve problems faster.
- Creating a foundation for enterprise excellence with digital workflows that support sustainable, scalable improvement
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
QUALITY:
- Manager (-)
- Director (+)
- Director +
- Compliance
- Continuous Improvement
- Digital Transformation
- Document Control
- IT - Director+
- Lean Six Sigma
- Process Improvement
- Quality
- QMS
- Quality Assurance
- Regulatory
- Supplier
- Supply
- Supply Chain
MANUFACTURING
- Quality Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer
- Continuous Improvement
- Digital Transformation
- Global Engineering
- IT - Director+
- Lean Six Sigma
- Plant Director
- Process Improvement
- Quality
- Quality Control
- Training Director
- Director+ Industry 4.0
- Director+ Innovation
Safety Requirements
OTHER REGISTRATION INFORMATION
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