Wow, we've got some good speakers lined up for you. See our future meetings page at http://www.asqsandiego.org/meetings_future.htm and note that we are still looking for speakers for November 14, 2006, February 13, 2007 and beyond. Contact Abe Wong now with your availability or if you can recommend a good speaker.

Last Month's Meeting

Last month's joint meeting with the ASQ Biomedical Division and ASQ Palomar Section 708 went very well.

The speaker was James E. Kozick, Principal Consultant Kozick Consulting in San Clemente, CA (Voice/FAX: (949)-492-6609; Cell: (949) 310-5925) who headed the topic of "PREPARING FOR AND MANAGING FDA INSPECTIONS ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION". James is retired from being LA's acting head of the FDA for several years. For more information regarding the talk see http://www.asqsandiego.org/news/jun06mtgmail.htm#tmm

Highlights including numerous questions from the ~100 member audience and some interesting debates about the significance of change based initiatives such as Lean and Six Sigma in the FDA environment.

More On The Contest Announcement

Last month we announced the following contest. Here is more information:

The dates for the course in San Diego are September 13 and 14. The location venue has not been finalized yet, but when it is we will post a brochure link on the course calendar located at www.asq.org/cs/courses. A description for the Customer-Focused Satisfaction Course may be found at: http://www.asq.org/cs/courses/satisfaction.html.

Here's what we posted in the last newsletter:

1) A contest is being held to award a 2-Day, Customer-Focused Satisfaction Measurement course from ASQ’s Customer-Supplier Division. See details of the course offering on the internet at http://www.asq.org/cs/courses/satisfaction.html. The course is tentatively set for September and a firm date will be announced soon on the ASQ website.

2) The contest is open to all ASQ San Diego members and non-members alike.

3) A contest entry will consist of a written report on the following quality topic: Describe the greatest impact that quality has had on your organization.

4) Entries not meeting the following contest criteria will not be considered.

a) Entry will consist of one to five, 8.5” x 11” pages. A cover page may be included and will not count in the total page count. The cover page should contain the author’s name and title, company, contact information, and names of two company representatives.

b) Validity of a contest entry requires verification by submitting the names of two company representatives who can verify the entry’s contents.

c) Entries must be submitted in MicroSoft Office format (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), or in a PDF file. Topic must be backed up by quantifiable, objective data. Some suggestions for entry content are as follows.

i) Amount of dollars saved.

ii) Reduction in the amount of scrap and/or product returns.

iii) Improvement of a process(es) and by how much.

iv) Amount of productivity increase(s).

v) Level of customer satisfaction achieved.

d) Entry should be concisely written and grammatically correct.

e) Submissions must not have been previously published in whole or in part outside of the company / organization.

f) Entries are to be emailed to ASQContest@IQS-TQM.Com by July 21^st, 2006.

5) ASQ San Diego board members are exempt from the contest and will judge the entries. Any questions about the contest can be directed to ASQContest@IQS-TQM.Com.

6) Contest winner for the ASQ Customer-Supplier Division course will be announced at the August ASQ section meeting.

7) Best three entries (including the winner) will be posted on the ASQ website.

Please post a copy of this message at your place of employment

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:

See you next week,

Doug McCloskey
ASQ San Diego Section Leadership Committee Chair
dm@grantrothbard.com
http://grantrothbard.com

This Month's Meeting

Our May meeting went well (see details here). Our June meeting will be as follows:

Jul.11, 2006

"Lean & Change Management"

Commander Al Desmarais of the U.S. Navy's Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC)

Albert.Desmarais@navy.mil

Abstract

Lean is now a very popular series of tools and techniques meant to help a company create change toward reducing waste, increasing throughput, lower costs, higher quality, etc. Note that with every attribute of Lean we use a verb that describes action taken ... or change that occurs (i.e. reducing, increasing, lower, higher, etc.).

Change is easy for some to accept, hard for some to accept, and can be confusing for the rest of the group of people undergoing the change. Sometimes change can be quite funny when unplanned reactions are completely unexpected. Sometimes change can be quite dangerous. There are ways to mitigate these difficulties.

This talk was recently well received at SDSU as follows: "He was extremely well received by our guests, many of whom had already experienced the challenges on the "people" side of a lean implementation." - Liz Sondhaus, Ph.D.; Director, Corporate Learning Professional Development, College of Extended Studies; San Diego State University.

Speaker Biography

Al Desmarais, a 19-year veteran of the US Navy, currently acts as the Value Stream Manager for Southwest Regional Maintenance Center; the Navy organization responsible for all maintenance for Navy ships in San Diego.

He graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1987 with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. He also completed Navy Nuclear Power training and holds a Master’s degree in Software Engineering from Southern Methodist University. He is a graduate of the Lean Certificate course at San Diego State University and has spent the last 3 years working to institute continuous improvement philosophies, based on the Toyota Production System, at Southwest RMC.

He has served on 5 ships, the last, USS Constellation, as Materiel Officer for Task Force 55 during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His experience as a military leader and recent transition to Lean manufacturing trainer/ facilitator has provided him a unique perspective into the human element of process improvement. His unique and interactive seminar style reinforces the sometimes painful lessons he has learned about workforce culture and human behavior.

Commaner Al Desmarais
Value Stream Manager
Business Office Department Head Southwest RMC
3755 Brinser Ave St 1
San Diego, CA
92136-5205
Albert.Desmarais@navy.mil
tel mobile: 619-571-5731

Meeting Details

RSVP Required

Please use the RSVP form below. Attendance fee includes a delicious dinner.

Meeting Date

Tuesday July 11, 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. Special selection of Pasta and Basil chicken.

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 (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

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 Oct.21, 2006

Then again on:

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 October 6, 2006

Then again on:

April 6, 2007

October 5, 2007

Every June & Dec.

Next is Dec. 2, 2006

Then again on:

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

New Medical device workshop coordinator is looking for speakers, interesting topics, and a meeting location. Contact

Jenny Gossett (CQA-CBA), Director of Quality
ALFA SCIENTIFIC DESIGNS, INC.
POWAY, CA 92065
PHONE: 858.513.3888 x 314
e-mail: jgossett@alfascientific.com

We are close to being able to present a two hour

workshop on Gage R&R. Stay tuned.

Newsletter Sponsors

Our newsletter sponsors this month are:

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