"Ability is of little account without opportunity" - Napoleon Bonaparte 

As Quality professionals and potential company leadership team members, it is imperative that we not only seek to identify internal improvement opportunities that contribute to enhance the customer experience and benefit the companies profitability, we also need to stop and consider our own personal growth prospects. 

The combination of the ASQ national headquarters and local chapter 703 offers many training & education events which increase your working knowledge and value to your current employer, and presents additional value-added when seeking new employment opportunities. 

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds" - Sir Francis Bacon 

Webster defines opportunity a couple ways: 

A situation or condition favorable for attainment of a goal 

A good position, chance or prospect for advancement or success 

A very few folks we may know always seem to be lucky, get the right break at the right time or appear to be blessed by the Gods. Most of us lesser mortals must continue to struggle to achieve our dreams - or do we? A highly successful application is networking with your peers at the chapter dinner. Meeting new associates and maintaining old contacts is one of the best ways to network within the San Diego Quality community. 

"If you do not hear the sound of opportunity knocking, build a door" - Milton Berle 

Others may create their own opportunities by exceeding expectations, taking on additional responsibilities and making their value better known to decision makers. No matter what the vehicle used, creating a positive personal sense of awareness and expanding your opportunistic horizons which will lead to increased prospects. 

"Opportunity's greatest enemy is mediocrity. The greatest way to exercise an opportunity is to choose to do something very well. If you choose to do something that is indistinguishable from its competition, then your future is not your own. If you offer something that is truly outstanding (maybe a product, or a feature, or maybe the way you approach your work), you have excelled to a degree that most others won't. I am not talking about uniqueness - I am talking about excellence. Excellence is the proper response to opportunity. 

Excellence, in fact, creates opportunity. If you are very good at what you do, credible, open and curious you will have more opportunity than you can exercise". Gregg Oliver ASQ Quality Visionary 

"A blind man can hear opportunity in the wind" - 22nd Rule of Ferengi Acquisition

Other Announcements

• The 2008 State of the Society report is now available online. Read the 2008 State of the Society at http://www.asq.org/media-room/news/2008/04/20080428-state-of-society.html 

• We recently had our 652nd job ad!!  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. 

• Contact Doug McCloskey at dm@grantrothbard.com if you wish to volunteer with the following two government outreach projects: 

• San Diego Office of Emergency Services 

• San Diego Quality Conference Projects

• Call for Papers - World Conference on Quality and Improvement
  The Technical Program Committee of the 63^rd World Conference on Quality and Improvement invites you to submit proposals for concurrent sessions to be  presented in Minneapolis, MN, May 18-20, 2009. Deadline: August 1, 2008

• Call for Judges and Teams - International Team Excellence Award Process
  Judges: You have an opportunity to become a preliminary round judge and use your quality knowledge to assist in choosing the winning teams for the 2008-09 International Team Excellence Award Process. Deadline: August 20, 2008 

• Don't forget to check out other local events on our local event calendar. 

This Month's Meeting

 

Aug. 12, 2008	"Application of Reliability Demonstration Testing to the Product Development Life Cycle"	Rick Ramirez, CRE Cardinal Health, CTS (858) 458-7253 Rick.Ramirez@cardinalhealth.com       Pre-meeting-clinic this month on "Justifying Your Job"; lead by Kim Niles

 

 

Abstract

 

Reliability Demonstration Testing (RDT) is an effective process to identify and predict top field failure modes and for predicting product Annual Failure Rate % (AFR%) during the product development cycle. An efficient RDT process allows product development teams to be pro-active during design development rather than re-active after the product release to costly design warranty issues in the customer field. 

 

This presentation discusses where and how the RDT process fits and is developed within a product development Reliability/Quality plan applied to medical instruments developed at Cardinal Health's Alaris Products Division. Five key RDT product development cycle areas are reviewed: 

1. Component or Subsystem RDT process 

2. System Reliability Block Diagram (RBD) Model 

3. System Level RDT process 

4. Product reliability metrics and warranty/repair cost impacts 

5. RDT process feedback from 1st year field warranty/repair data analysis.

 

Biography

 

Richard Ramirez earned a BSME from Southern Methodist University (SMU) in 1982 and earned a MSME from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1984. He has a current ASQ certification as a Reliability Engineer since 1997 and ASQ certification as Quality Engineer 2008. He has 26 years combined experience as a R&D engineer, Quality engineer, and Reliability engineer in the Aerospace, Telecommunications, Computer, Electronics, and Medical Industries. 

 

He started his career as a R&D engineer with Bell Helicopter Textron and continued his R&D experience with AT&T Bell Labs in Robotics Research. He began his Quality and Reliability engineering work with Hewlett Packard in 1987 and as a Reliability Engineer for DuPont Medical Products and for Qualcomm's QWBS division. Rick has supported product development, manufacturing and product field service departments. 

 

Rick is currently a Principal Reliability Engineer for Cardinal Health's Clinical Technologies and Services Division in San Diego, CA.  He has introduced Reliability Processes and Procedures at Cardinal Health CTS that support R&D development "Design in Reliability" from the early steps of product development and throughout the product life cycle. Rick has developed Reliability plans and has experience and executed every aspect of a Reliability plan from Reliability Specifications thru final Reliability Demonstration testing.

 

Pre-clinic Information:

 

Kim will lead a group discussion (with examples) on how we are and or should be continuing to justify our own efforts in the workplace.    

 

Kim Niles is a senior member of ASQ, has a Masters degree in Quality Science, and has ASQ CQE, CSSBB, and UCSD MBB certifications. Kim is an adjunct instructor through San Diego State University's Biomed MS degree program and University of California in San Diego (UCSD extension). He works for Alphatec Spine, Inc. in Carlsbad, CA. More about Kim can be found at www.KimNiles.com 

 

 

 

Meeting details are as follows:

Meeting Details
RSVP Required	Please use the RSVP form on our meetings page.  Attendance fee includes a delicious dinner.
Meeting Date	Tuesday August 12, 2008 (normally the 2nd Tuesday of the month)
Agenda	5:15 pm             Registration & Happy Hour Begins 5:45 pm             Pre-meeting-clinic 6:10 pm             Dinner  6:40 pm             Announcements  6:45 pm             Main program   7:45 pm             Raffle and Speaker Prizes 7:55 pm             Adjourn
Menu	Great buffet meal.  Typically a special selection of Pasta and Basil chicken.
Price RSVP Form Here
	NEW sponsor subsidized prices	No Food Arrive Late	Early RSVP	Dinner With RSVP	Dinner Without RSVP
	ASQ Student Members	Free	$5	$10	$12
	Regular Members	Free	$15	$20	$22
	Non-Members	Free	$19	$24	$26
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 (formerly Prime Hotel, formerly Wyndham San Diego North).  5975 Lusk Boulevard, San Diego CA 92121.  Their Phone: (858) 558-1818 see map here
Parking	Ample free parking
Other Meeting Support	Announcing the Speakers:  ? Master of Ceremony:  ? Manning the Sign-in Table:  Officer Geraldine Domingo Announcing the Prizes:  Officer Arta Motadel Ordering the Food:  Manijeh Farrokhi Coordinating the Speakers:  Abe Wong

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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS UPDATES

    

Our section proudly sponsors a variety of educational and professional training

opportunities.   See our main education page and our current refresher course training schedule.  

 

 

Current Exam Dates Schedule               (Recently updated table)

 

If you are interested in pursuing any of these certifications, we recommend that you click on the links below that take you to the National ASQ page where you can read the body of knowledge for each certification type.  

 

Certification Types and Links to "Body of Knowledge", & Additional Information	Application Deadline	Exam Dates
CQT - Quality Technician CRE - Reliability Engineer CQI - Quality Inspector CMQ/OE - Manager Q&Org.Ex. CSSBB - Six Sigma Black Belt CHA - HACCP Auditor CBA - Biomedical Auditor	Every January and August Next is August 15, 2008 Then again on: January 9, 2009 August 14, 2009	Every March & Oct. Next is Oct. 18, 2008 Then again on: March 7, 2009 October 17, 2009
CQE  - Quality Engineer CQA - Quality Auditor CSQE  - Software Quality Eng. CQIA - Q Improvement Associate CCT - Calibration Technician CQPA - Quality Process Analyst CSSGB - Six Sigma Green Belt	Every April and October Next is October 3, 2008 Then again on: April 10, 2009 October 9, 2009	Every June & Dec. Next is Dec.6, 2008 Then again on: June 6, 2009 Dec. 5, 2009

 

Workshops, Modular Courses, Tech Clinics, Study & Discussion Groups 

Workshops:  No workshops currently scheduled.  Our workshop coordinator is looking for speakers, interesting topics, and a meeting location.  Contact Jenny Gossett (CQA-CBA), Director of Quality; e-mail: asq703workshop@yahoo.com  Modular Courses & Tech Clinics:  No modular courses currently scheduled in lieu of pre-meeting technical clinics.  15-30 min tech clinic speakers needed.  Can you share a model, method, or tool with us?  Perhaps a student paper or a case study from work?  Contact our Ed Chair or Programs Chair as applicable.    Study & Discussion Groups:  Our section supports both ASQ sanctioned and informal study and or discussion groups.  There are currently none of these groups actively going on but there are biweekly planning meetings underway for formal discussion groups in our area soon.  The Food & Drug discussion group and the Six Sigma discussion group planning committees are well underway.  Tom Pyzdek is leading the Six Sigma discussion group.  Both groups hope to begin holding meetings in our area next Fall.

 

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Newsletter Sponsors

 

Our newsletter sponsors this month are:

 

Click here. ISO 9001: 2000 & AS 9100 Audit Training Sept. 2008 in San Diego

Lean Six Sigma & Green Belt Training Click Here for More Info.

DNV Training Classes in San Diego Soon Click Here for More Info.

See Schedule of Numerous Events!   Lean Six Sigma Class Just Started - Act Now!   University of California, San Diego Extension Six-Sigma Black-Belt     A Black-Belt Professional Certificate Program

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