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Welcome the San Diego ISO User’s
Group:
Our next ISO Users group meeting is
this month, Jan 19 at Delta Design in Poway from 9-11 am.

Location:
Delta Design, Inc.
12367 Crosthwaite Circle
Poway, CA 92064-6817
858.848.8000 (phone)
If you plan on attending, please R.S.V.P.
to Kim Niles at kniles@deltad.com.
Security Badges will be available for entering the facility.
Directions:
See
http://www.deltad.com/contact/dir_deltasd.htm.
Agenda:
9:00 - 9:15 Meet and greet. Business meeting portion
9:15 - 9:45 Tour
9:45 - 10:30 Break and review of Delta ISO system
10:30- 11:00 ISO Exercise and survey
Other contact:
Saul Singer (ssinger52@yahoo.
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Charter here
below:
1.
Organization
1.1 The San Diego ISO User Group is comprised of interested representatives of
the various industries certified to or interested in certifying to ISO9001
Quality Management System or ISO14001 Environmental System. All user group
activities will be under the direction of a Chairperson(s) with an Executive
Committee assisting in the handling of administrative and other business
matters. Temporary task groups will be utilized to address specific issues
identified.
2.
Purpose
2.1 Serves as a focal point between the interested representatives of the
various industries certified to or interested in certifying to ISO9001 Quality
Management System or ISO14001 Environmental System.
3.
Objectives
3.1 Provide a forum for various interested parties to work with each other in
better understanding the management/environmental systems and to exchange best
practices.
4.
Membership
4.1 Open to all interested parties agencies regardless of ISO certification.
5.
Meetings
5.1 Meetings will be conducted quarterly or at such times as may be called by
the chairperson(s). No charge to members.
6.
Charter Review
6.1 The Charter shall be reviewed annually to ensure that the User Group meets
the needs of the participating members.
Status of Meetings Held
- Meeting #7 - January 19, 2005; Delta Design in Poway. Tour, review
of ISO systems, Q&A, Exercise.
- Meeting #6 - October 20, 2004 ...
- Meeting #5 - July 21. Sponsored by Donna Baumeister, a Senior Supplier Quality Auditor for Guidant and
arranged 3 speakers:
Mary Lou Kessler, Group Leader, Engineering/Process Quality, Guidant ES, will
present on Internal auditing in a FDA regulated environment.
Dan Smith, Process Quality/Engineer. Guidant VI will present on Risk Management.
Rudy Deveau, Business Analyst, Guidant VI, will present on Laboratory
Information Management Systems.
Donna Baumeister conducted a tour of the facility after the meeting.
Location: Guidant Corporation, Vascular Intervention Group
26531 Ynez Road
Temecula, CA 92589-9018
Map
- Meeting #4 - January 29, 2004 at Unisys Corporation. Leslie
Martichuski provided an outstanding presentation on how Unisys establishes
training needs and measures the effectiveness of the training.
- Meeting #3 - October 21, 2003 from 9 am to 12 pm. Our speaker was Lindsey Waddell who is a Product Development
Manager and Lead Auditor with KEMA Registered Quality, Inc. Lindsey will
discuss innovative, "Out of Box", approaches toward ISO 9001:2000 Processed
Based Auditing. Agenda topics:
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Benefits of Process based auditing
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Overview: process based auditing
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Objectives and results
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Planning
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Conducting the audit
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Reporting
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Closing the loop
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KEMAs 3rd Generation process based
auditing methodology
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Open forum and discussion
- Our Aug. 12 and June 24 meetings went very well from
8 am to 12 pm. On June 24 We had approximately 36 attendees and some lively discussion
regarding ISO and the role of registrars, consultants, trainers and auditors in
user groups. There were quite a few of the later in attendance but we also had a
good number of users. Thanks Diane Geldreich for starting what we
hope will be a long lasting resource for San Diego Quality professionals.
We wish her luck in her new home back east.
The new committee chairperson is Saul
Singer, Saul can be reached at
ssinger52@yahoo. com.
The other new committee members are Don Tilton of Gladhill Associates
International, Harry Cullen of Quality Management, and Manolo Hernandez of
Dynamic Instruments, Inc.
Mission: To provide a mutually supportive and positive learning
environment in which members have the opportunity to share knowledge and
experience.
Sponsors:
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Great Western Registrar LLC
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Gladhill Associates Intl.
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ISO-Solutions
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Ericsson
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Kyocera Wireless Corp.
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ASQ San Diego Section 703
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ASQ Palomar Section 708
Future meetings will be held about every other month from 9:00 to noon at
different locations. We will focus on specific clauses of the standard and
will have different speakers present on different perspectives i.e. user,
auditor, registrar, trainer, consultant.
Thank you ASQ Section 703 & 708 for your support. The users group is
looking forward to a continued partnership with ASQ. We will be promoting
re-certification courses as well as dinner meetings. Regards, Diane
Information outlining what it takes to start up an ISO
users group
1. Establish A Contact List. To start an ISO 14001 Users Group in
your area, I would first seek a list of registered companies,
www.aqs.org and
www.rabnet.com are a good
start. Try to establish contacts in each one of those companies. E-mail/Fax
mission statement, agendas......
2. Advertise. Here in San Diego we have an organization called IEA
(Industrial Environmental Group) if you have a similar organization contact them
to see if they will share their list or if they will advertise for you. ASQ
sections will sometimes advertise for users groups also. The local paper has a
weekly business calendar - listings are free.
3. Seek Sponsors. You will need a place to hold the meeting, perhaps a
local business will allow you to use their conference room and equipment free of
charge. It is nice to have refreshments when meetings are over an
hour....Registrars Training, Consulting, Auditing organizations are all
potential sponsor candidates.
4. Structure the Group Around the User. Users Groups fail because they
end up being comprised of only Registrars Training, Consulting, Auditing
organizations. Those organizations have their place, (sponsors, speakers) it's
great to get their perspective. Never lose sight of the sole purpose/mission to
exchange information so that it can be used by the individual who has to apply
it to his or her organization.
5. Establish a Mission Statement and Ground Rules- See 4. don't lose
control of the group to other interested parties. Keep the user list
confidential - suppress the mailing list. In San Diego we established a table
for advertising - we made it clear that everyone was welcome to place their
materials on the table but that's where it ends.
6. Assemble a Committee: It is too much work for one person. Set-up
and tear-down, Sponsors, Users, Correspondence, Agendas all too much for one.
7. Focus on the Standard. Each meeting focus on a specific element of
the standard. Have a User talk about how they have implemented and maybe a
Registrar on what they expect.
8. Solicit Feedback. Develop a comments/survey form. What elements of
the standards are users having difficulty with? Who do they want to hear from?
How long should meetings be? Where should meetings be held? Would any one like
to sponsor?...
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