Coupled with our strong organizational and interpersonal skills developed through managing R&D teams across multiple geographic sites, ARTANA SOLUTIONS provides customers with proven skills in both national and international arenas.

ARTANA SOLUTIONS activities focus on providing practical solutions to customers in three main areas

ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management System Auditing

Quality Management Systems (QMS) enable an organization to identify, measure, control and improve the various core business processes that will ultimately lead to improved business performance. ISO 9000 is a family of standards for quality management systems and is maintained by the International Organization for Standardization and is administered by accreditation and certification bodies.

Specifically, ISO 9001:2008 describes the Process approach and the adoption of a set of Quality Management Principles including:

• Management responsibility
• a set of procedures that cover all key processes in the business;
• monitoring and measurement activities to ensure these key processes are effective;
• documentation and control of records;
• checking output for non-conforming product, with preventative and corrective action where necessary;
• regular review of processes and the QMS itself for effectiveness; and
• driving continual improvement

Certification to an ISO 9000 standard states clearly that formalized business processes are being applied. Many companies aim for the ISO 9001 certification as a powerful marketing tool.

ARTANA SOLUTIONS provides customers with the following expertise and support:

1. Conducting Gap Analysis assessments
2. Conducting ISO 9001:2008 Audits (internal and external)
3. Preparing organizations for ISO 9001:2008 Certification.
4. Maintaining ISO 9001:2008 Certification.
5. Support to increasing Scope of ISO 9001:2008 Certification.
6. Ideas for Continuous Improvement of a customer’s QMS.
7. Identification of opportunities/needs for Corporate action and training

R&D/Engineering Excellence

Technology innovation and widespread competition increase pressure on Company R&D activities to deliver the latest and greatest product(s) both quickly and at the required cost targets. Thus, R&D organizations must be effective and with flawless program delivery, thus enabling the company to deliver its differentiated product(s) in a timely way to the marketplace.

ARTANA SOLUTIONS provides customers with the following expertise and support:

• Program Management: plan preparation; plan audits; program reviews support.
• Organizational Excellence through: problem identification; solution proposals;  restructure ideas; enhancement concepts; ideas for workforce re-motivation; as well as growth and downsizing expertise.
• Assist small and medium companies in setting up an R&D organization for successful delivery of their innovative technology and product development.
• Team-building assistance.
• Remote Team management concepts/assistance.
• Support in claiming Scientific Research and Experimental Development (SR&ED) tax credits offered by the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA)

Defence System Engineering and Technology

ARTANA SOLUTIONS provides customers with the following expertise and support:

• EW Systems Engineering and Technology across the three Services (Navy, Air Force and Army).
• EW Technology Assessments across a wide frequency spectrum (communications to optical)
• Review and advice on Technology Investments for EW systems
• Technical Seminars on tri-Service EW Systems and Technologies at customer premises