Services and Solutions

At DB Performance Solutions, we specialize in empowering small and medium-sized companies with tailored quality solutions. Our expert services ensure improved performance, enhanced compliance, and streamlined processes. Discover how we can elevate your business. We take pride in delivering a personalized touch in every engagement, tailoring solutions to meet your unique business needs. Our dedicated approach drives improved performance, ensuring measurable results that strengthen your organization’s success.

QMS is not the role of just one person. We help your entire organization take quality seriously. “Right-size” your audit program through training and risk reduction.

A Focus on Audit Objectivity

QMS is not just one person's role. We help your entire organization take quality seriously. “Right-size” your audit program through training and risk reduction.

DB Performance Solutions’ auditing professionals have been conducting audits since 1987 to nearly every quality management system standard and regulation. We can “right size” your audit program, we can manage the audit program on your behalf, or we can simply provide audit services on your behalf – internal or supplier auditing.

We can help set up systems that make everyone part of the quality team:

    • Develop Risk-based audit programs.
    • Ensure sufficient audit resources to manage auditor bandwidth and time to help as an internal auditor.
    • Don’t let the Quality Manager be the only person responsible for quality.
    • Perform your internal and/or supplier audits, once a year or once a quarter, you define the risks and rewards.
    • Audit effectiveness is measured by risk reduction not by number of nonconformances.
    • Train your staff to be more effective auditors and perform witness audits of your team to verify auditor competency.

If you, as the Quality Manager are being asked to “take a look at a few of your key suppliers” in addition to your daily job, it is time to recruit assistance from within by putting the right processes in place.

A Focus on Simplicity

We help guide you through QMS cleanup and enable you to achieve more using existing resources.

The key to having an effective QMS is making it useful. And the key to helping your employees use your QMS is SIMPLICITY. DB Performance Solutions works with organizations to create brief and useful documentation and trains their staff to focus on and follow the intent of the ISO standards.

    • Was your QMS built when you had 50% more staff?
    • Is your Quality Manual more than 30 pages?
    • Do you have over 100 controlled documents?

Quality standards are not just for show; they are a means to achieving quality excellence and generating effective operations and becoming the best that you can be.

We have helped clients:

    • Reduce their Quality Manuals to 10-12 pages.
    • Reduce controlled documents by more than 66%.
    • Push corrective actions to the process owners instead of the Quality Manager.

Train teams on the INTENT of the ISO standard rather than relying on old strategies.

A Focus on Risk Management

We build systems for your organization that add value, support decision making and evolve with you.

Risk is unavoidable in business, but it can be effectively managed. Whether you’re navigating supply chain uncertainty, cybersecurity threats, or evolving customer demands, DB Performance Solutions helps you construct a risk management program that will help you anticipate, prioritize, and respond to potential issues before they escalate. Do you know which of your risks are acceptable and which are not?

Risk Mitigation is the hardest step to perform and the most difficult on which to provide general advice. We don’t provide cookie-cutter solutions. No two risks are the same, and no single tool is best to fix all risks. We use tools like:

    • Team-Based Problem Solving (8-D)
    • Poke-Yoke (Error-Proofing)
    • Training and Employee Awareness
    • Guarding/E-stops/Safety Seals
    • On-Site Supplier Audits
    • Design for Reliability, Maintainability, and Manufacturability
In today's digital world, major threats come from your computer systems. We help you keep up with the latest technology to protect your most valuable asset: Your information.

A Focus on Cybersecurity

In today's digital world, major threats come from your computer systems. We help you keep up with the latest technology to protect your information.

DB Performance Solutions is trained in ISO 27001-Information Security Management Systems and allied with some of the most knowledgeable cybersecurity experts. We work with your IT department and guide you through the process of developing a plan to protect your organization from the ever-growing threat of hackers and opportunists.

    • Develop a multi-point checklist to evaluate your cybersecurity controls.
    • Develop a procedure for ongoing cybersecurity management.
    • Strengthen your IT services contracts to enhance cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity risk cannot be entirely eliminated, so you need a thought-out strategy to reduce and monitor it. Don’t assume that your IT service has it completely covered. We’re here to support and protect you.

You can’t improve what you can’t measure. We help you sift through your data to help you make the most of it.

A Focus on Meaningful Metrics

You can’t improve what you can’t measure. DB Performance Solutions helps you the most of your data and leverage what you already have.

Data is the lifeblood of any modern organization, but it is useless if you don’t listen to what it has to tell you.

    • How do you measure SUCCESS?
    • How do you measure IMPROVEMENT?
    • How do you measure EFFECTIVENESS?

If you have too many metrics but your QMS is treading water or on life support, then reach out to DB Performance Solutions.  We’ll help you find ways to take the data you already have and turn it into Meaningful Metrics!

    • Eliminate useless surveys.
    • Implement simple, effective, compliant supplier requalification strategies.
    • Monitor actual on-time delivery.
Don’t let corrective actions overwhelm you. Use them properly and effectively. We help you enhance process controls and leverage your QMS to its fullest.

A Focus on Corrective Actions

Don’t let corrective actions overwhelm you. Use them properly and effectively. We help enhance process controls and leverage your QMS to its fullest.

With 40 years of first-hand experience, the team at DB Performance Solutions can bring new life to your Corrective (and Preventive) action systems. Not every action needs to be a corrective action, and every corrective action needs to be addressed.

We identify strategies for effectiveness verification and action closure, train your team to identify issues before they become problems, and help you develop simple solutions that do not require corrective action.

By deploying effective decision trees, we help your management team properly prioritize issues that truly need the resources to require corrective action.

    • Develop simple solutions for problems that do not require corrective action.
    • Enhance your process controls to transfer corrective action responsibility to the Process Owners and let the Quality Manager manage the quality system.
    • Train your team in efficient problem-solving tools.
    • Identify strategies for effectiveness verification and action closure.
We are focused on helping improve quality for our clients by ensuring continual process improvement. We help you use the right tools for the job.

A Focus on Process Improvement

We focus on helping improve quality for our clients by ensuring continual process improvement. We help you use the right tools for the job.

If your processes are as old as your QMS, it is time for a tune-up! DB Performance Solutions, LLC brings an outside perspective to your QMS guaranteed to provide a world-class tune-up. Nearly all quality management system standards and regulations are process-based, but when was the last time you truly took a hard look at your processes to ensure that they are performing optimally for your company?

As Process-experts since 2000, our team can:

    • Prepare updated Process Diagrams (don’t even call them Turtles, we don’t use recreational pharmaceuticals!)
    • Work with your team to identify your process risks and ensure that your system effectively addresses those risks.
    • Ensure that the right metrics are in place for monitoring process performance.

A Focus on Strategic Sourcing

Our strong network of high-quality manufacturers and suppliers can connect organizations looking to find that one critical supplier.

A strong and resilient supply chain requires a strong team of dedicated and high-quality suppliers. With over 35 years of experience in a variety of industries, DB Performance Solutions can provide introductions and participate in the process of selecting the perfect supplier for our clients. We work with you to find suppliers that meet your level of quality to reduce the risk of partnering with the wrong organization.

If you’re trying to re-shore your supply chain to avoid tariffs, we can help you find:

    • Machining Suppliers
    • Fabricating Operations
    • Printed Circuit Board Manufacturers
    • and more

(312) 615-3530

danbrown@dbperformancellc.com

“A bad system will beat a good person every time.” – W. Edwards Deming