Tag Archives: ASQ

Conference, Event

INNOVATING QUALITY – North Jersey ASQ Spring Quality Conference 2014

ASQ North Jersey Section 304 proudly announces our 36th Annual Spring Quality Conference (SQC) to be held at the Marriott Hanover, Whippany, New Jersey, on APRIL 17th, 2014.

Full day with continental breakfast, 4 course lunch, 4 tracks, 17 speakers, vendors, and outstanding networking opportunities. Keynote speaker; Harry Hertz, Director Emeritus, Baldrige Performance Excellence Program. The SQC Program is posted on our website http://www.springqualityconf.org/. Brochure and details are also posted. Find information on the website by clicking the tabs along the top.

Join the fun and network with like-minded professionals!

Conference, News, NJIT Student Section, SIG

2014 Lean Six-Sigma SIG / Ott Quality Conference meeting at NJIT

Join us for dinner and a dynamic presentation on Lean Six-sigma on March 27th, 2014 at NJIT.

  1. An Introduction to Lean Six Sigma with Engineering and Service System Examples (by Vincent Miller and Paul Ranky) about 40 min plus Q/A. Key Concepts (by Paul Ranky). Define value, VSM (Value Stream Mapping), continuous flow, pull, perfection, the difference between lean and 6 sigma (by Vincent Miller). Engineering examples and application areas with huge potentials for LSS (by Paul Ranky); Business and Service system examples and application areas with huge potentials for LSS (by
    Vincent Miller)

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Event, Workshop

Human Error Prevention Workshop – April 11th, 2014

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cancelledPrecept – Except for (a) risks from decisions based on cost-benefit analysis and (b) risks that are unidentifiable in advance (e.g., those associated with discovery and invention) – except for these risks, all losses to an enterprise are attributable to human error in the design of processes, including the design of the hardware used in the processes, and in the implementation of the processes. The prevention of human error should have very high priority.
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Announcement, Event, Section Meeting

March Section Meeting: Effective Communications

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images:communiacation method cans on a stringThis month’s presentation will cover the need for Effective Communications in today’s business world, highlight the challenges to communications and suggest steps and methods to improve communication effectiveness. Meeting participants will be asked to share their experiences and expertise on this topic during the presentation. Following the presentation, participants will be more knowledgeable on the need for effective communications, the causes of inadequate communications and actions that can be taken to make communications more effective for their organizations and themselves. Continue reading March Section Meeting: Effective Communications →

Event, Section Meeting, SIG

Human Factors in Health Care Quality

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Join us January 14th, 2014 for our monthly section meeting for a discussion of Human Factors in Health Care Quality.

In the last century, modern health care has made such progress with the biological understanding of disease and the technical control of trauma that medical error itself is responsible for more deaths than motor vehicle accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS. As the biomedical industry continues to make progress with other areas of disease and mortality, the final frontier of medicine will become the practice of medicine itself. Continue reading Human Factors in Health Care Quality →

Jobs

R&D QA Engineer (Valhalla, NY)

Job Description – This is a Quality and Food Safety by Design technical leadership position reporting to the Sr. Manager for North American Beverages Packaging Quality and Food Safety by Design. You will lead the successful commercialization, qualification and validation of new packages associated with new beverages and technological innovations are safe, stable, legal, and are launched on time and meet design specifications. Continue reading R&D QA Engineer (Valhalla, NY) →

Announcement, News

Welcome to our New and Returning Section Members

Welcome new and returning members to our ASQ NY NJ Metropolitan section 300. Those of you who included your email address have been invited to our LinkedIn network where you will find the latest calendar events, including meetings, quality and professional training courses, tours, dinners, jobs and soon some topical discussions.

I hope you join our network on LinkedIn and visit our calendar where you can get detailed information about events and register to join us at the meetings, events and training courses.

Level Name
FULL Candace Martone
SENIOR Miles Matsumura
FULL Michelle Naylor
ASSOCIATE Adrian Leu
FULL Ashar Choudhry
FULL Samson Nyachwaya
FULL Tamara Kuittinen
FULL Michael Quiello
ASSOCIATE Jennifer Tassy
FULL Elizabeth Cates
FULL Tylor Shellenberger
FULL Ravi Manchi
FULL David Maina
FULL Mark Shivers
FULL David Dziekonski
FULL Renee Cotton
Chair, News

Message from the Chair

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Dear ASQ Member,photo: Sandor Juhasz

Hello and welcome to the NY/NJ Metropolitan Section of the American Society for Quality (ASQ). I encourage you explore our site see what makes up our organization.

As the newly elected Chair of this section, I look forward to building on the strong foundation set by our past chairs in providing our members with educational programs, engaging section events and opportunities to network with other quality professionals. Our approach is to provide an atmosphere for learning and a platform to expand the principles that make up ASQ.

So I invite you to visit us during one of our upcoming General Section Meetings. This is a great opportunity to meet your fellow members; learn a little more about our section and get a taste of the programs we offer throughout the year.

Please feel free to contact me via e-mail if you have any questions.

See you at the next meeting……

Regards,

Sandor G. Juhasz, Chair
NY/NJ Metropolitan Section