Director and Principal Consultant, Institute of Quality & Reliability
Education:
B.E.Mechanical from VNIT, Nagpur in 1977
Diploma in Business Management (IMDR, India) 1986
Awards:
- Quality Leadership Award 2022 at World Quality Congress
- QCI-DL Shah Quality Champion Silver Award 2018
- Qimpro Foundation Silver Standard 2003
Certifications:
ASQ certified as:
- Six Sigma Master Black Belt (CMBB) (First in Asia) (2010)
- Reliability Engineer (CRE) (2005)
- Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB) (First in India) (2001)
- Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE) (First in India) (1998)
- Quality Engineer (CQE) (1996)
Experience:
- 28 years at Cummins India as process engineer, Sr.GM Quality, Management Representative and Sr.GM Product Engineering
- 18 years as Director and proprietor at Institute of Quality and Reliability
- Trained about 6000 professionals in Quality, Reliability and Six Sigma Approach
- Worked as Visiting faculty for MBA at Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) for two years.
Institute of Quality & Reliability
Institute of Quality and Reliability (IQR) was established in Nov. 2005, with primary objective to help Industries for improving their quality and business performance. IQR also supports individuals aspiring to improve their knowledge and skills in Quality and Reliability.
After 28 years of rich industrial experience in the Industry, at Cummins India Ltd. (CIL), Hemant Urdhwareshe decided to establish IQR. So far, IQR has trained about 3500 Black/Green Belts, 500 reliability engineers and more than 6000 professionals in the field of Quality and Reliability.
IQR provides training and consultancy services of the highest class in the areas of-
- Six Sigma approach
- Reliability Engineering
- Quality Engineering and Design of Experiments
- ASQ Certifications
- Statistical Techniques
IQR has supported many reputed companies in the above areas to enhance the competence of their engineers and managers. Apart from the conventional training programs, IQR has also developed many eLearning modules and online simulated exams in the areas of Quality/Reliability Engineering and Six Sigma Approach.
Institute of Quality & Reliability
Hemant is the author of the article/video series Institute of Quality & Reliability.
This article series (videos) is dedicated to all who want to learn and contribute to improving quality and reliability to make this world better!
Videos are created by Hemant Urdhwareshe and team. Hemant is a Fellow of American Society for Quality (ASQ) and is certified by ASQ as Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Reliability Engineer (CRE), Quality Manager (CMQ/OE) and Quality Engineer (CQE). He has 42 years of experience and wants to share his knowledge and experience with those who wish to acquire it!
Hemant’s author archive lists contributions of articles and episodes.
