The tragedy in New Orleans will likely end up being the worst tragedy in US history. The numbers affected are truly mind boggling. A whole city was basically destroyed. People are now dieing from exposure to the horrible conditions in the city.

Who is responsible for governmental Quality? Quality obviously broke down at the state and national levels as simulations were run prior to hurricane Katrina that predicted the current situation and yet nothing was done about it. Risk assessment and mitigation is a big part of Quality. In this case the assessment part was correct.

Hank picked the story below off the internet and wants me to make it perfectly clear that I'm including it in this month's message not to make light of the New Orleans tragedy. I'm including it in order to contrast my point that we humans need to rise up and proliferate quality by helping in some way to alleviate the pain and suffering of the victims and to mitigate other risks that surround us. It's our responsibility to make a difference ... to be that SOMEBODY.

+~+~+

Who is responsible for Quality?

A company was facing quality problems in its products and customer services.
The CEO of the company made it very clear that the way things were done
had to change. Improving the quality of the company’s products and services
was an important job, he said, and asked EVERY employee to get involved in
making it happen.

After listening to the boss, EVERY employee was sure that SOMEBODY would do
it. ANYBODY could have stepped up to the plate and do it, but NOBODY did. SOMEBODY got really mad about that because it was EVERYBODY’S job after all. EVERYBODY thought ANYBODY could do it, but NOBODY realized that, as usual, EVERYBODY wouldn’t do it.
The quality improvement drive ended up that EVERYBODY blamed SOMEBODY when
NOBODY did what ANYBODY could have done.

Moral of the story: as a Quality Professional, become SOMEBODY and get the
quality job done…

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Key Announcements

No workshop is currently planned for September. Contact me with requests.

See Refresher Courses; The CSQE course just started with 22 students but there is room for a few more. Keep signing up at http://www.asqsandiego.org/educ_refcourses.htm.

A few 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:

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See you on the 13th.

Best regards,

Don Griego

Section Chair

ASQ Section 0703

This Month's Meeting

Our August meeting went well (see details here). Our September meeting will be as follows:

Methodologies

Sept. 13, '05

"Quality Passion Night: 9 Guest Speakers & DOE Helicopter Exp."

Kim Niles - Delta Design, Inc.

858-848-8000

kniles@deltad.com

Abstract

Due to a last minute speaker issue, Kim stepped up to coordinate a potpourri of quality passion speakers, then finish up with an experimental helicopter design exercise that resulted in a 100% increase in flight time after just one DOE.

Topics presented were all approximately 5-10 minutes long on subjects as follows:

Frank Humphries - Triz
Mark Halverson - Systems Engineering
Manijeh Farrokhi - Validation
Dr. Leonard Perry - USD's new Lean Six Sigma program
Jim Socolich - Software Quality
Jenny Gossett - the biomedical auditor certification
Fernando Perez - ISO's definition of CAPA
Ric Van Der Linden - Change management
Kim Niles - DOE and the helicopter experiment

About Our Presenter

All speakers were active members with local companies.

Kim Niles has a master’s degree in Quality Science from California State University, Dominguez Hills, with emphasis in Six Sigma and Process Management. He received his Bachelor’s degree in 1984 in Applied Arts & Sciences from San Diego State University through the Industrial Technology Department.

His career has specialized in improving quality, costs, & or productivity of complex, high volume, or problematic manufacturing systems using quality and statistical principles. He has personally performed more than 150 designed experiments producing an estimated hard savings to San Diego companies in excess of six million dollars (soft savings of ~ $350M). He has a wide range of work experience from medical, material science, semiconductor, rubber molding, and consumer electronics manufacturing companies.

Currently a Quality Engineer with Delta Design, Inc., Niles is an officer in three San Diego societies (ASQ703, SAMPE, SDEC). He also serves on advisory boards for SDSU's MS BioMed Quality Systems degree, UCSD’s Six Sigma Black Belt Certification Program, and Palomar College’s Quality A.A. degree and certificate program. He has authored or co-authored 28 article publications and given 90 talks.

Kim Niles,

MSQA, CSSBB, CQE

858-848-8000

________________________________

http://www.KimNiles.com

kniles@deltad.com

Meeting Details

RSVP Required

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

Meeting Date

Tuesday August 13, 2005 (2nd Tuesday of the month)

Agenda

5:15 pm             Registration & Happy Hour Begins

6:00 pm             Dinner

6:30                  ASQ Announcements

6:40                  Main program

7:40             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

Several classes are under way this month as outlined 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

Jan. 13, 2006

Oct. 22, 2005

again on Mar. 4, 2006

CQE - Quality Engineer
CQA - Quality Auditor
CSQE - Software Quality Eng.
CQIA - Q Improvement Associate
CCT - Calibration Technician

Oct. 7, 2005

Dec. 3, 2005

Upcoming Workshops and Modular Courses

For future month workshops see upcoming workshops.

TOPIC	Taught By	Date;Tm;Loc	Cost	Contact
None Pending

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See Schedule of Numerous Events!

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