ASQ East South-Central Region - February 2025 Newsletter

By Arved Harding posted 8 days ago

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ASQ East South-Central Region - February 2025 Newsletter

· 2025 World Conference on Quality and Improvement – May 4-7, 2025 Denver, CO

· ASQ1106 Section Meeting - Tuesday, Feb 18, 2025 @5:30-8:00 EST

· Lexington Section Meeting - Thursday, Feb 20, 2025 @11:50-1 EST

· Other Online Education Opportunities in February

2025 World Conference on Quality and Improvement | ASQ

WCQI attendees will join passionate professionals to take quality to new heights. This event is more than just a meeting point; it's a gateway to using quality concepts and tools in new and unique ways every day and expanding the reach of quality practices into non-traditional industries and environments.

Through WCQI’s captivating sessions and thought-provoking discussions, attendees will:

· Elevate human performance within the context of quality by learning how to motivate your workforce to take production from mediocre to extraordinary.

· Mapping existing processes to identify bottlenecks, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement. Processes define everything we do in an organization.

· Delve into the use of data analytics tools and dashboards to gain insights, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions for quality improvement.

ASQ1106 Northeast TN Section - February 2025 Section Meeting Announcement

ASQ 1106 Section Meeting

Tuesday February 18, 2025 (Virtual with Zoom) (Note day change from Thursday to Tuesday for February only.)

Agenda (Eastern time zone):

5:30 - 5:45 Log in and socialize time

5:45 – 6:45 Review of NE Tennessee Section Project to Recognize and Encourage Excellence in K-12 Education by Hank Somers

6:45-7:00 Break

7:00-8:00 Sources of Variation Analysis with Multi-Vari Charts and GLM by John Noguera

Register here or at one of the URLs below.

https://app.memberplanet.com/#/event/asqnortheasttennesseesection/asq1106februarysectionmeeting

https://mp.gg/yf3bcox

If clicking on this link does not work, put the URL into your browser.

If you have trouble registering with this URL, try a different internet browser.

For questions or reservation issues contact Arved Harding (423) 765-5382. aharding@eastman.com

Presentation 1

Topic: Review of NE Tennessee Section Project to Recognize and Encourage Excellence in K-12 Education - (Awarded 2024 Best Practice by ASQ)

The Northeast Tennessee Section of ASQ has a long-standing history of supporting education for over 30 years. The latest project aims to recognize, reinforce, and encourage achievement and excellence in K-12 education. The project involves routinely reviewing regional media for examples of educational achievement and sending congratulatory emails to educators, with copies to community leaders. Feedback indicates that these congratulatory emails are greatly appreciated.

Hank Somers, the Coordinator for Support of K-12 Education for the ASQ NE Tennessee Section, will review the project's origins and evolution, including project details, example emails, feedback, and lessons learned.

Feedback from educators and community leaders suggests that this project effectively reinforces the efforts and positive results of educators and the education system. Additionally, the project expands the Section's outreach and helps introduce the American Society for Quality (ASQ) as an organization committed to excellence to local educators and community leaders.

If member units choose to implement a similar project, it can be tailored to fit the available time and resources. The costs for the Section are minimal.

The project was suggested for and awarded a 2024 Best Practice by ASQ.

Speaker Bio:

Hank Somers is an ASQ senior member. He is a past Northeast Tennessee Section chair, and Section Board member for more than 25 years. Hank has been active for the ASQ NE Tennessee Section supporting Quality in Education for many years. He currently serves as the NE Tennessee Section Coordinator for Support of K-12 Education.

Hank was a member of the ASQ Koalaty Kid Board of Directors (2000-2002). Koalaty Kid was ASQ's program for Quality in K-12 Education during the 1990's, and early 2000's.

Hank had a 34 yr. career at Eastman Chemical Company retiring as a Quality Professional. He assisted Eastman Chemical and Pal’s Sudden Service in preparing for and achieving Baldrige National Quality Awards.

After retiring from Eastman Chemical, Hank assisted multiple Northeast Tennessee schools as a facilitator of school improvement teams applying quality tools and technology to K-12 education. Teams made significant progress, and some achieved huge gains in student academic performance.

Hank as a former FAA private pilot, is an advocate for aviation and aviation education in Northeast Tennessee and was named 2018 Tennessee Aviation Person of the Year by the Tennessee Aviation Hall of Fame.

Presentation 2

Sources of Variation Analysis with Multi-Vari Charts and GLM

Multi-Vari charts and the General Linear Model (GLM) are effective tools for analyzing Sources of Variation data to compute variance components. By decomposing the total variability into parts attributed to different random factors, one can identify the primary contributors to the overall variability. This insight is essential for prioritizing efforts aimed at reducing variation and implementing statistical process control.

Agenda:

Introduction to General Linear Model (GLM) for Variance Components
Basic Sources of Variation: Within, Between, Over-Time data
Graphical tools: Multi-Vari and I-MR-R/S
GLM Analysis of Within, Between, Over-Time data
Destructive (Nested) Gage R&R with Shear Test Data
Case Study: Assembly Time Data from Nested Factorial Design – Unbalanced

Speaker Bio:

John Noguera is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of SigmaXL, Inc., a leading provider of user-friendly Excel add-ins for Lean Six Sigma tools, statistical & graphical analysis and Monte Carlo simulation. He leads the development of SigmaXL and DiscoverSim with a passion for ease-of-use, practical & powerful features, and statistical accuracy. John is a Six Sigma master black belt and was an instructor at Motorola University. He has authored conference papers on Statistical Process Control and Six-Sigma Quality and is a contributing author in the Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (Wiley).

ASQ Lexington Section Meeting on Thursday, February 20, 2025 @12-1pm EST

For this month’s Lexington Section meeting we have a very relevant topic of Artificial Intelligence in a recent ASQ prerecorded Webcast Presentation:

Putting AI in ComplAInts, auditing, CAPA, and More… (45 minutes)

Presenters – James Allgood (Product Marketing, Quality Management)

ASQ Host- Pablo Baez

Section hosts- Steve Ross and John Simson, ASQ Lexington, KY –

Explore how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI-powered tools can revolutionize the way we handle complaints, audit findings, CAPA, and more.
Find out the immense benefits such as reduced costs, decreased risk of non-compliance and improved efficiencies that manufacturers are experiencing today by implementing AI. More importantly, learn how you can start to implement them too.

Join this webcast to get a sneak peek into the future of complaints management.

Challenges facing Complaints Management
Today’s applied AI use cases for complaints intake and handling
Implementing tools like ChatGPT to revolutionize complaints management
How manufacturers will manage complaints in 10 years

Discover how AI-powered solutions can help you stay ahead of the competition and improve your-bottom-line.

This ASQLEX 0911 section monthly meeting is a prerecorded webcast meeting that begins at 12PM EST on Thursday, February 20th.

If you plan to attend, please email reservation to Mark McDonald (Mmcdonald@hendrickson-intl.com) by noon Tuesday, February 18th.

The Zoom virtual Meeting link for this recorded webcast meeting will be sent out to those who register with Mark McDonald. Note: A 0.1 RU will be given for section meetings that you attend. However, please use the email registration so that the Section has an attendance record for sending our RU credits. When you join the zoom meeting mute your computer microphone during the presentation.

Door Prize: A random number is selected from the people attending the section webinar meeting. The winner will be able to choose a book or standard from the ASQ Quality Press with member cost of $50 or less. Doug Howard, Treasurer, will purchase item and send to member mailing address. In January 2025, congratulations to Mark Doggett who won the door prize

Meeting Agenda:

11:50 -12:05 pm Log in and Section welcome, webinar and speaker intro

12:05 – 1:00 pm Presentation and then Q&A with members.

Section Leadership is proposing we have about 5 minutes of member engagement before we start our webcast.

Other Online Education Opportunities in February

ASQ Ann Arbor February 2025 Meeting; Dr. J Zhou, Carbon Neutrality through Quality and Reliability

When: Feb 3, 2025 from 05:30 PM to 08:00 PM (ET)

Community: Ann Arbor Section

ASQ Innovation Technical Community Monthly Chat - Innovation Tools & Techniques

When: Feb 3, 2025 from 06:30 PM to 07:30 PM (ET)

Community: Innovation Division

Generations: Who Am I Talking To, Or, Who Should It Be With