One of the key requirements of the ISO 9000-2000 standard is the demonstration of
“Management Commitment.” In my vocabulary this usually means “Thou Shalt or Else.”

The following information was taken from an article in the current version of Quality Digest Magazine provides a measure of the effect of management commitment in Best in Class companies.

Quality Drives Competition

Fifty-four percent of best-in-class companies said that enforcement of quality procedures was the top strategic action for their companies, according to a newly released report, "The Product Quality Benchmark Report: Achieving Quality Across the Global Manufacturing Network."

"Strategic Actions by Best-in-Class Companies". Survey results, percentage of respondents from best in class companies:

Enforce quality procedures enterprisewide = 54%
Implement closed loop corrective action programs = 38%
Design products with quality assurance built in = 38%
Interactively measure and improve quality of incoming materials = 23%
Increase inspection of work in progress and finished products = 23%

The study, performed by AberdeenGroup, also found that best-in-class organizations are significantly more likely to have a global quality program in place and four times more likely than average performers to empower their decision makers with Web-based integrated technologies.

The entire survey may be viewd at www.aberdeen.com

Other related articles may be seen at www.qualitydigest.com/currentmag/news.shtml#1

Your Help Wanted

This is republished information from our January education mailer. Please reply as possible.

Officers Wanted: We have established an officer election committee chaired by Emelito Ong. Contact him to volunteer and or suggest someone that would be a good officer candidate. Being an officer takes only as much energy as you put into it. Benefits range from free meals and RU's for those that don't contribute much to free refresher courses, conferences, and payment for special efforts made.
Product Ideas Wanted: Contact Doug McCloskey with product ideas that you would like to see our section help provide to you. Examples range from physical products such as books and newsletters to conferences, training camps, etc.
Special April Quality Passion Meeting Speakers Wanted: Contact Kim Niles if you can speak to our section from 5-15 minutes during our Quality Passion night. Today's quality professional needs speaking experience. You also get RU's and $0.83 per minute while helping everyone else learn what you find interesting. Come tell us your stories, show us your case studies, or just shoot the breeze.
Normal Meeting Speakers Wanted: Contact Abe Wong if you are interested in speaking to our section or if you know of a good speaker we should pursue.
Travelers Wanted: Contact Abe Wong if you are interested in a special business related trip to China.
Course Coordinators Wanted: Do you have an ASQ certification and a desire to earn RU's by helping to plan our educational courses? Contact me if so.
Instructors Wanted: Do you have an ASQ certification and a desire to earn RU's and cash by helping our section teach related courses? Contact me if so.
Company Tours Wanted: A recent survey outlined that 35% of member companies are willing to host a tour of your facility. Please step forward and contact Abe Wong to coordinate a tour of your facility.
PhD. Student Survey Help: Member Tim Truitt is trying to get his Ph.D but needs your assistance in a Innovation Management survey. Contact Tim for further information: ttruitt@tns.net. You get his results and some interesting information on how organizations can foster innovation.

Contact any of these officers using contact information posted on our contacts page.

Other Key Announcements

Several new jobs have recently been posted on our jobs page. See http://www.asqsandiego.org/jobs.htm and keep sending them in.

Don't forget to check out our sponsor pages. Great courses and products being offered!! See links at the bottom of this email. Here's some details:

Sponsor: Last call for USD's January Lean and Six-Sigma program. Space is limited - reserve yours today. Call (619) 260-4894 or email 6sigma@sandiego.edu or see their ASQ webpage at http://www.asqsandiego.org/sponsor_usd.htm

New Sponsor: Last call for Eagle Force, Inc.'s hands-on Internal Auditor Training course January 25 & 26, 2006, at the Holiday Inn Select Hotel Circle, San Diego. Cost: $595.00/person (2 or more $450.00/person). See www.eagleforceinc.com or contact Deborah Baldwin, PH: 330-212-5606; Email: deb@eagleforceinc.com

Sponsor: Last call for UCSD's January Lean and Six-Sigma program. UCSD Extension has many upcoming programs in Lean and Classic Six Sigma, Lean Enterprise, New Product Development, and Supply Chain Management. See January class links and a revised calendar at http://www.asqsandiego.org/sponsorucsde3.htm

Sponsor: QPRS who has a new Lean SSBB course starting soon that is meant to prepare ASQ members to pass the ASQ SSBB certificate. Other Lean and Kaizen courses are also available. See more information and a brochure at http://www.asqsandiego.org/sponsor_qpr.htm

Sponsor: GMP Label. Order online or download our catalog or Regulatory Compliance newsletters. Over 100 GMP and ISO compliant labels. Check them out at http://www.asqsandiego.org/sponsorgmplabel.htm

Sponsor: Grant Rothbard, Inc. provides integrated compliance and improvement solutions that address multiple compliance objectives including Sarbanes Oxley, ISO 9000, BS 7799 (ISO 17799), HIPAA and numerous other business standards, software solutions, and regulations. See more at http://www.asqsandiego.org/sponsor_grantrothbard.htm

See you next week,

Michael Campbell
ASQ San Diego Section Leadership Committee Chair
Tel: (760) 613-0173
Email: mcampbell79er@hotmail.com

This Month's Meeting

Cupid Strikes, Meeting Cancelled ... Sorry. We will try to reschedule this speaker.

Our January meeting went well (see details here). Our February meeting will be as follows:

Feb. 14, 2006

"The Process-Based Approach:
Going Beyond Auditing to Assessing"

Ron Sedlock, CQMgr, CQE, CQA, CRE
rsedlock@msn.com

www.thequalitycatalyst.com

352-473-6095

Note that Ron will be flying in from Florida for our meeting.

Abstract

Traditional element-based auditing for compliance is no longer sufficient to today’s competitive market place. Business today requires continuous improvement and customer satisfaction.

In this presentation you will learn techniques to audit to your actual business management practices -- not to a “series of clauses”. You will learn how to widen the scope of audits to include interactions of processes and increase the depth of audits to include effectiveness.

Learn how to make assessments that add value and creditability with upper management.

Speaker Biography

Ron Sedlock has over 30 years manufacturing, engineering and quality experience:

Quality Control Supervisor Davies Can Company
Quality Engineer Sundstrand Aviation
Quality Manager Adolph Coors Company
Operations Manager Coors MicroLithics

He has studied personally with top quality experts such as Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Dr. Joseph Juran.

For the past 13 years, Ron has operated the quality Catalyst, an independent consulting and educational service. His practical approach to quality has help his clients establish cost effective quality systems that work.

Ron has been certified by the American Society for Quality as a:

Certified Quality Manager
Certified Quality Engineer
Certified Quality Auditor
Certified Reliability Engineer

He is a senior member of ASQ and is the past Chairperson of the Boulder Section.

Ron has BS degrees in Chemistry and Mathematics from Cleveland State University. He also taught Total Quality Management and Statistics at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Ron is a Vietnam Veteran serving with the 1st Air Cavalry. He is also an avid, competitive handball player.

Ron offers seminars and training classes in quality management, such as in statistics and auditing. His web site is at www.thequalitycatalyst.com

Meeting Details

RSVP Required

Please use the RSVP Form Here. Attendance fee includes a delicious dinner.

Meeting Date

Tuesday February 14, 2006 (2nd Tuesday of the month)

Agenda

5:15 pm             Registration & Happy Hour Begins

6:00 pm             Dinner

6:35 pm             Announcements

6:45 pm             Main program

7:45 pm             Raffle and Speaker Prizes

7:55 pm             Adjourn

Menu

Great buffet meal

Price
RSVP Form Here

These are sponsor
subsidized prices
Dinner With RSVP Dinner Without RSVP No Food Arrive Late

ASQ Student Members $10 $12 Free

Regular Members $20 $22 Free

Non-Members $24 $26 Free

Door Prizes We averaged $185 in door prizes per meeting last year!!

Dress
Nice Casual

Location
This month we're at:

Country Inn & Suites By Carlson (formally Prime Hotel, formally Wyndham San Diego North). 5975 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego CA 92121. Their Phone: (858) 558-1818

see map here

Parking
Ample free parking

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS UPDATES

Our section proudly sponsors a variety of educational and professional training

opportunities. See our main education page for more details.

Classes to be Held This Month

See classes that are under way this month on our Refresher page and Modular page. Keep signing up for any courses you'd like to take and we will keep adding more so that perhaps the class you want will be held next month. If you have any special requests, please make them also as we will try to accommodate you.

Current Exam Dates Schedule

Certification exams are held in member company meeting rooms around San Diego and administered by proctors. They are held on Saturday mornings twice per year as shown in the table below. Note that these dates don't include special quality conference tests. Main ASQ certifications page.

Certification Types and Links to "Body of Knowledge", & Additional Information

Application Deadline

Exam Dates

CQT - Quality Technician
CRE - Reliability Engineer
CMI - Mechanical Inspector
CQM - Quality Manager
CSSBB - Six Sigma Black Belt
CHA - HACCP Auditor
CBA - Biomedical Auditor

Every January and August

Next: August 18, 2006

Then again on:

January 12, 2007

August 17, 2007

Every March & Oct.

Next is March 4, 2006

Then again on:

October 21, 2006

March 3, 2007

October 20, 2007

CQE - Quality Engineer
CQA - Quality Auditor
CSQE - Software Quality Eng.
CQIA - Q Improvement Associate
CCT - Calibration Technician
CSSGB - Six Sigma Green Belt

Every April and October

Next is April 7, 2006

Then again on:

October 6, 2006

April 6, 2007

October 5, 2007

Every June & Dec.

Next is June 3, 2006

Then again on:

December 2, 2006

June 2, 2007

December 1, 2007

Upcoming Workshops and Modular Courses

For future month workshops see upcoming workshops.

TOPIC

Taught By

Date;Tm;Loc

Cost

Contact

None ready but we're working on a few different types of workshops including:

$20, 1.5 hour modular course workshops on topics such as SPC, auditing, case studies, Six Sigma, basic stat calculator math, etc. These will not include dinner. Instructors needed.
$40, 3 hour traditional workshops including dinner.

Tell us what you'd like to support, including topics and costs. Email our education board at edboard@ [remove this space] cox.net

Newsletter Sponsors

Our newsletter sponsors this month are:

Lean Six-Sigma: Green-Belt, Black-Belt and Master Black-Belt Workshops Click Here for More Information.

See Schedule of Numerous Events!

Six Sigma Leadership - Act Now!

University of California, San Diego Extension

Six-Sigma Black-Belt

Newly Revised Programs Starting Soon

A Black-Belt Professional Certificate Program

Click on picture

Sarbanes Oxley
ISO 9000
BS 7799 (ISO 17799)
HIPAA, etc.

Click Here For Information

or see http://grantrothbard.com/

Six-Sigma & Lean

Providing you the roadmap for successful Implementation

Hands-on workshops

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt - NEW
Lean Kaizen Simulation One-Day
Six Sigma Black Belt
At your company. Call now.

Location: San Diego, CA

Call 858 566 6432 or info@qprs.com

QPR - Quality and Productivity Resources - http://www.qprs.com/

Be Our Sponsor - Contact Kim Niles

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