KPA Ltd. was founded in 1990, with the goal of promoting advanced management methodologies for improving the competitive edge of organization's in the industrial sector, in the services sector and in the public sector. KPA has gained world wide recognition as a competence center in quantitative methods with activities in Industrial Statistics, Risk Management, Biostatistics, Data Mining and General Mathematical Modeling.

KPA was a partner in Pro-ENBIS, an FP5 thematic network whose aim was to promote the use applied statistical methods in European business and industry. Pro-ENBIS was the foundation of ENBIS,the European Network for Business and Industrial statistics. Prof Kenett, the chairman and CEO of the KPA Group has been a president of ENBIS in 2006-2007. The aims of ENBIS are to:

- Foster and facilitate the application and understanding of statistical methods to the benefit of European business and industry,

- Provide a forum for the dynamic exchange of ideas and facilitate networking among statistical practitioners (a statistical practitioner is any person using statistical methods whether formally trained or not),

- Nurture interactions and professional development of statistical practitioners regionally and internationally. For further information see: www.enbis.org

KPA's ENBIS partners include ISRU, Newcastle University 's Industrial Statistics Research Unit. ISRU has extensive experience of delivering programs to organizations throughout Europe to enable them to improve business performance. KPA and ISRU offer several joint training programs including Six Sigma training and Quality by Design comprehensive programs for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry. For more on these programs contact [email protected]

The KPA Center for Robust Design and Industrial Statistics was created in 1994 as a resource center within KPA Ltd. The center specializes in advanced methods of industrial statistics and operations research, including Taguchi methods of robust design, for improving quality and increasing productivity. The center has won a long term tender to provide consulting services in the area robust design and industrial statistics. KPA developed a comprehensive methodology and supporting tools for product and process optimization in the context of TITOSIM, an FP5 project focused on robust design and reduced time to market in the context of development on simulation platforms.

The Basel-II accord on the international convergence of capital measurement and capital standards provides complex recommendations and strong incentives for global financial institutions to adopt sophisticated data based risk management. The accord is placing a great emphasis on development of internal risk management methodologies and recommends flexible, integrated processes, based on a menu of possible approaches to risk evaluation and mitigation. In conjunction with the University of Torino and the University of Pavia in Italy, KPA is developing a center of expertise, at the European level, for practical implementation of Basel II. Professor Kenett is Professor of Statistics at the University of Torino (UNITO), a 600 years old university with strong interest in applications of statistics in the industrial and service sectors. In conjunction with UNITO and Professor Paolo Giudici of the University of Pavia, several projects related to the implementation of the Basel II accord on credit and operational risk management are currently in progress. To reach the site of the FP6 MUSING project click here .

In the area of Biostatistics and Biomathematics KPA has participated in the design and analysis of clinical trials, modeling of nanocomponents performance, evaluating new drug entities and chemical compounds using FDA guidelines and the introduction of DOE and SPC in various industries. Clinical Trials at Work - is a workshop based  on the MetaGen software , a unique simulation platform for clinical trial design. This one day workshop is a joint KPA-ENBIS workshop. For a description of the workshop please click here . To download Gen (The software used to plan and run trial simulations) click download Gen . For more information on MetaGen see: http://www.greenfieldresearch.co.uk/index.html

KPA has extensive expertise in Data Mining techniques. In the 1980s, Professor Kenett was one of the originator of Structural Exploratory Data Analysis (SEDA) together with Professor Sam Karlin of Stanford University. SEDA is one of the first forms of Data Mining. KPA has applied Data Mining techniques to churn management, sales campaigns, accident prevention and quality control.

KPA is a partner in a major initiative with the University of Torino and the University of Milan to establish benchmarking capabilities in the area of customer satisfaction surveys. Papers derived from this initiative were published in two special issues of the international journal Quality Technology and Quantitative Management. For the introduction to these special issues click here.

Prof Ron Kenett, the CEO of KPA, has published over 160 articles and several books and chapters in edited volumes. Amongst these are:

• Modern Industrial Statistics: Design and Control of Quality and Reliability (with S. Zacks), Duxbury press, 1998, Spanish edition, 2002, 2nd paperback edition, 2002, Chinese edition, 2004.

• Operational Risk Management: A practical approach to intelligent data analysis (co-edited with Y. Raanan). For the printed version click John Wiley and Sons, 2010 . For the on line version click here .

• Process Improvement and CMMI for Systems and Software (With E. Baker and a foreword by S. Yau), Taylor and Francis Auerbach Publications, 2010.

• Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (co-edited with F. Ruggeri adn F. Faltin),Printed version , John Wiley and Sons, 2007

• Online version , Wiley InterScience, 2008

• Multivariate Quality Control: Theory and Applications (with C. Fuchs), Marcel Dekker Inc., Taylor and Francis, New York, 1998.

• Software Process Quality: Management and Control (with E. Baker), Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, 1999.

• Modern Statistics: A Computer intensive Approach (with S. Zacks), Thomson Learning, 2001.

For a special presentation on the application of statistically designed experiments to golf - click here.