Quality Audit
Newsletter of the American Society for Quality
Rochester Section 0204
| Vol. 48 Issue 1 |
September, 2010 |
In this issue:
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR ELECT
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MEETING
ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A JOB?
A CONFERENCE IN BUFFALO
THE BALDRIGE RESOURCE LIBRARY IS NOW AVAILABLE!
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR
Hello,
Summer has come to an end and your ASQRS Executive Committee members semi-hiatus are over. Audit reports, budgets and annual plans are being completed and submitted to National. Planning is underway for the conference and our slate of monthly professional development meetings is being filled in.
Of course, as always there are lots of opportunities to get involved with our local section. In particular we desperately need someone to chair the Conference Committee. This is a great opportunity for anyone that wants to gain visibility in the community and learn about the internal workings of our section and ASQ national. We have several experienced individuals (who are fun to work with) that already know how to take care of the details, but we need somebody to organize the effort. If interested contact me or anyone else on the Executive Committee.
I know that most of us are focused on our jobs that contribute to the quality of the products and services that our employers are delivering in this community; this is great. While we take care of the day-to-day tasks, ASQ is contributing to international efforts to expand the influence of quality processes to a wide range of problems. The initiative has been given the title of Social Responsibility. Social Responsibility is:
“People and organizations behaving and conducting business ethically and with sensitivity towards social, cultural, economic and environmental issues. Striving for social responsibility helps individuals, organizations and governments have a positive impact on development, business and society.”
In more concise terms, social responsibility is doing the right thing.
ASQ is the ANSI selection to be the U.S. member of the ISO group focused on social responsibility. ASQ’s assignment is to administer the U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) on Social Responsibility. In that role ASQ is bringing together a cross section of industry experts to help develop the standard. There are six categories of interest:
Industry
Government
Non-Governmental organizations
Consumer
Labor
Services, support Research and Others
The objective of the initiative it is to draw attention to affects of business decisions on people, communities, and opinions of customers around world.
Development of the standard hopes to:
Broaden awareness of social responsibility.
Help organizations understand the differences between cultures, societal, environmental concerns, legal differences, and economic conditions in international markets.
Provide practical guidance related to making social responsibility operate.
Emphasize performance results and improvement.
Increase confidence and satisfaction of customers and other stake holders.
Keep standards consistent with international treaties and conventions.
Develop a common nomenclature for social responsibility.
The group hopes to publish the standard later this year.
Besides taking on this role, ASQ currently administers four TAG’s:
U.S. TAG 56 to ISO/TC 56 on Dependability
U.S. TAG 69 to ISO/TC 69 on Statistics
U.S. TAG 176 to ISO/TC 176 on Quality management
U.S. TAG 207 to ISO/TC 207 on Environmental management
To learn more about social responsibility and ASQ role in developing the standard go to:
www.asq.org/social-responsibility.
To learn more about the other standards ASQ is helping to develop go to:
http://standardsgroup.asq.org/about/overview.html
To keep up to date with activities in your local quality community, check our web site frequently; http://www.asqrs.org/.
I hope to see you all soon,
Leigh Rundell, Section Chair, 2010/2011
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT MEETING
The next professional development meeting will be Thursday, September 23, 2010.
The topic will be: CorrectSPC: the Correct Use of SPC in Precision Machining
The speaker is: Bob Doering, CQMgr, ASQ CQE, CQA, CMI; PQSA (RABQSA) Quality Engineer, Hi-Stat Manufacturing, Lexington, OH Adjunct Instructor, Engineering Technologies, Lorain County Community College, Elyria, OH.
Visit www.asqrs.org for all the details and to register for this meeting.
If you wish to read more about the speaker view the entire event flyer here.
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ARE YOU LOOKING FOR A JOB?
Please visit our web site www.asqrs.org we have posted many career opportunities on our home page.
If you have a job posting you would like added to the page, send them to qualityauditeditor@yahoo.com and we'll get it posted as soon as possible. All that we ask is that the job is quality related and when the position is filled you let us know so we can keep the page fresh.
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ASQ Buffalo 3 Day "Lean Six Sigma" Conference Starts October 19, 2010
Click here for more details.
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THE BALDRIGE RESOURCE LIBRARY IS NOW AVAILABLE!
The American Society for Quality is proud to have been a major partner in launching the new face of the BaldrigePE web site. and the Baldrige Resource Library.
The BRL contains over 1,000 articles and videos about Baldrige, organizational improvement and the Alliance.
It's the place to answer questions such as, "How do I find out more about Baldrige?", "Has anyone else done this?", "How do I get started?", "Should I do Baldrige, ISO, Lean, or Six Sigma?" - All aspects of organizational improvement, Baldrige, the Criteria, Quality methods and tools are covered.
Anyone can add content - just register. URL pointers are preferred to existing files on other web sites, but unpublished documents can be stored. All submission are subject to review to ensure customer value and appropriateness and the library will accommodate, articles, videos, webcasts or podcasts.
The American Society for Quality has been a major partner in launching this service and a resource contributor. Without their assistance we would have less value for our customers.
Get the word out! CONTRIBUTE!
Visit: http://www.baldrigepe.org/
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To submit content for a future newsletter:
Send to:
David Gilfoy at qualityauditeditor@yahoo.com by the 20th of the
month prior to publication.
If information is not received by the 20th it may still be added to the
asqrs.org web site.
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