Presentation: Quality through Measurement with Ashok Kumar Jain, ASQ Fellow from India
Date: May 19th, 2015 6:00-8:30pm
Location: Songkran Thai, 330 8th Ave, NYC
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ASQ NJIT Student Section Lean Six-sigma (LSS) Presentations on April 15, 2015
Please join us for our monthly section meeting with the ASQ NJIT Student Section featuring presentations on Lean Six-Sigma (LSS) NJIT.
Presentation Topics:
1. Quality Project Management Challenges and Solutions (by Olga Kalaba)
This presentation focuses on how the different participants in the construction industry are related to each other, and what the basic documents are everyone is using. It will specifically explain design problems and solutions: contract drawings and specification discrepancies, addendum’s & RFI’s, discontinued products/outdated specifications, installers and manufacturers’ feedbacks. Execution problems and solutions: how to keep track of approved and disapproved submittals, the submittal log on a shared drive with hyperlinks (electronic submittals vs. paper submittals) and examples, approved submittals on the job site, how to keep track of approved systems; submittal library and an example. Closeout problems and solutions: attic stock in execution phase instead in closeout phase, manufacturers’ warranties duration, and closeout log examples.
2. Lean Six-sigma Quality Case Studies (by Meghana Thammareddy)
Total Quality is a description of the culture, attitude and organization of a company that strives to provide customers with products and services that satisfy their needs. Meghana will be discussing the Component Oriented Requirements Analysis (CORA) method and tool. She will show how the tool makes it easier to follow the steps needed to make or improve a product by showing what customers want while highlighing the proposed engineering solutions and performance compared to other competitors. She will also show how the tool also gives you the complete importance rating for each engineering solution, thereby simplifying a company’s assessment as to which engineering solutions to challenge first, second, third, and so on.
3. Visual Factory Management Case Studies (by Michelle Vollo)
In an effort to maximize productivity, and reduce waste, Visual Factory Management Case Studies offers valuable ideas and information on incorporating visual aids into any business. With an emphasis on organization in the workplace, the presentation covers reducing waste and reworking processes through visual factory signs, color coding, workstation layouts, and layered process diagrams.
4. Lean Six-sigma Zero Defect Simulation with a Tolerance Analysis Focus (by Paul G. Ranky)
This interactive R&D presentation and workshop focuses on the basic principles of LSS tolerance analysis with the aim of achieving zero defect. Participants face a real-world challenge in terms of establishing and measuring KPIs (Key Process Indicators) of physical devices, entering data into a statistical software tool and then analyzing and discussing the results.
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June 2015 Section Meeting – Networking Event
The Metropolitan Section June 2015 Section Meeting will begin with networking among attendees, followed be a brief Section business meeting. The program will follow the business meeting and offer brief presentations by three attending Section members describing an instance or situation in their workplace where quality tools and/or practices were implemented to improve performance or to address a performance/organizational issue. Following each brief description of the performance/organizational situation and resolution (5 minutes), other Section members in attendance will be asked to provide comment and/or discussion on the situation presented (10 minutes).
The objective of this program is to:
- provide Section members the opportunity to network and build long-term professional relationships with one another
- allow Section members to share their workplace experiences with other fellow members and learn from one another
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Webinar Registration now available for the March Section Event
If you can’t join us in person for the March Section event You can now participate via a live webinar event! Reserve you place below:
Participation information will be provided to registered participants 24 hours before the event. Please be on the look out for an email from eventbright prior to the event.
March 2015 Section Meeting – Cause-and-Effect Analysis: Healthcare Case Study – Medication Errors
Join us for the March section meeting were the topic will be — Cause-and-Effect Analysis: Healthcare Case Study – Medication Errors
According to The Joint Commission, “Errors associated with medications are believed to be the most common type of medical error and are a significant cause of preventable adverse events.” Accordingly, medication errors have been named as one of the “never events” (i.e., events that should never happen). During this webinar, we will look at potential causes of medication errors using a cause-and-effect analysis, and we will look at process-based solutions for preventing these types of errors.
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General Section Meeting and Spouse Night – Chinese New Year Celebration
Seating is limited, so get your reservation in EARLY!
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January Section Meeting – Constructing a More Effective Survey: What Moves Minds May Not Move Feet
Join us for our first section meeting of the new year! Constructing a More Effective Survey: What Moves Minds May Not Move Feet
The survey is one of the most common data collection tools in the quality disciplines and works very well for requirements gathering, priority rankings, and opinion polling. But when we need to understand and impact human behavior, they sometimes don’t do a very good job. Continue reading January Section Meeting – Constructing a More Effective Survey: What Moves Minds May Not Move Feet
ISO 9001: 2015 – What to expect and how to survive the new revision
The November 2014 section meeting will focus on the changes in the upcoming ISO 9001:2015 edition of the international quality management standard, exploring some of the new requirements, and the new challenges that will be faced by users, along with “survival strategies” for navigating the future.
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