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ASQ Ottawa achieved SIlVER level in 2025 Performance Excellence Program

By Natalia Tribunskaya posted 7 hours ago
🎉 Congratulations to ASQ Ottawa Valley Section 0407 for achieving SILVER level in the 2025 Performance Excellence Program ! The recognition was presented at the 2026 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement in Orlando, Florida. The award was proudly received on behalf of the section by Natalia Tribunskaya , Section Secretary. 👏 Well done to 2025 Member Leader Team for this outstanding achievement! ...

ASQ Phoenix Message from the Chair June 2026

By Barbara Banek posted 13 hours ago
ASQ Phoenix Message from the Chair June 2026 Hello ASQ Phoenix Community, As we move further into 2026, I continue to be encouraged by the strength of our Phoenix quality community and the level of engagement we are seeing across our section activities. Whether through our monthly meetings, networking opportunities, or ongoing conversations between members, it is clear that our section continues to grow as a place where professionals can learn, collaborate, and support one another. At our recent monthly meeting, Dr. Gary Jing challenged us to rethink traditional approaches to Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). His ...

ASQ Member Newsletter-Meet Quincy Your AI-Powered Quality Companion

By Barbara Banek posted 13 hours ago
ASQ MEMBER NEWSLETTER Meet Quincy Your AI-Powered Quality Companion EXCLUSIVE MEMBER BENEFIT Prepared by: John Choate • AZ ASQ Outreach Leader Quincy Is an Exclusive ASQ Member Benefit At ASQ, we're dedicated to empowering quality professionals like you, and we're thrilled to introduce Quincy — your new go-to tool for all things quality. Quincy is more than just an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant; it's a dedicated member resource designed exclusively to support ASQ members in achieving quality excellence. Quincy offers 24/7 access to expert insights, tailored recommendations, ...

Calling All NextGen Member Leaders!

By Frazier Pruitt posted yesterday
Join the NextGen Liaison Group Are you a NextGen Chair, committee member, or volunteer leader looking for a little extra support, a place to swap ideas, and a way to connect with others across ASQ who are doing similar work? We'd love to have you join the NextGen Liaison Group . We meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 3:00 PM ET. Please use the link below to sign up, and we'll send recurring meeting invites for the 4th Tuesday of each month. Sign up here: NextGen Liaison What is the NextGen Liaison Group? The NextGen Liaison Group is an outreach effort of the NextGen Global Advocacy Committee . Its purpose is to support NextGen ...

Calling All NextGen Member Leaders!

By Frazier Pruitt posted yesterday
Join the NextGen Liaison Group Are you a NextGen Chair, committee member, or volunteer leader looking for a little extra support, a place to swap ideas, and a way to connect with others across ASQ who are doing similar work? We'd love to have you join the NextGen Liaison Group . We meet on the 4th Tuesday of each month at 3:00 PM ET. Please use the link below to sign up, and we'll send recurring meeting invites for the 4th Tuesday of each month. Sign up here: NextGen Liaison What is the NextGen Liaison Group? The NextGen Liaison Group is an outreach effort of the NextGen Global Advocacy Committee . Its purpose is to support NextGen ...

Two Months Later: What the Olympics and Robotics Remind Us About Consistency, Systems, and What Actually Endures

By Frazier Pruitt posted 2 days ago
It is easy to feel pride in the moment. The final goal. The clean landing. The medal ceremony. For a brief time, everything feels aligned. We watch, we celebrate, and we carry that energy with us. And then, like most things, life resumes. I intended to write this sooner. To capture that energy while it was still fresh. But like many of us, I got busy. Work filled the gaps. Priorities shifted. The moment passed. And that may be exactly why this is worth writing now. Because it is easy to feel inspired in the moment. It is harder to return to that feeling later, to recall it with clarity, and to decide that it still matters. Harder still to let ...

Women in Quality Roundtable 2026-The conversation your career has been waiting for

By Adalyd Oliveras posted 3 days ago
Dear Quality Community, Some things are worth doing right. This is one of them. When we set out to create the Women in Quality Roundtable , we had a vision bigger than a date on a calendar. We wanted a room full of the right people, conversations that actually move careers forward and an experience that stays with you long after you leave. We looked at where we were and made a decision. Not because we had to. Because we refused to deliver anything less than what this community deserves. The Women in Quality Roundtable is moving to Saturday, October 17, 2026. Same location. Same mission. A stronger lineup, more time to connect and a ...

Hybrid Event- Student Branch South Florida -Your Brain on Quality — June 8 Event You Won't Want to Miss

By Adalyd Oliveras posted 4 days ago
What happens when you apply quality management principles to the most complex system we know — the human brain? That's exactly what we're exploring at the next ASQ Southeast Florida Student Chapter event. Dr. Thomas H. Agrait is joining us for a presentation on Quality Management of the Human Brain, where neuroscience meets leadership, systems thinking, and entrepreneurship. This isn't theory for the sake of theory. It's a practical look at how brain function, stress resilience, and cognitive performance shape the way we lead, decide, and create. We'll cover: How breakthrough thinking actually works at a neurological level What stress does ...

Reliability Test Engineer at MKS Instruments Broomfield

By Arnold Miller posted 5 days ago
Company : MKS Instruments https://www.mks.com/ Location : Broomfield , CO (On-Site) Position : Reliability Test Engineer Job-id : R18307 Hours Per Week : 40 MSK Job Link Reliability Test Engineer A Day in Your Life at MKS: As a Reliability Test Engineer at IPM/IPS/MSS, you will partner with cross functional team to drive reliability activities, generate, develop and execute Reliability Plan for each project, embedded with engineering team and provide daily reliability support for associated projects; etc. In this role, you will report to the Sr. Director of Reliability Engineering. You Will ...

ASQ Baltimore Section 0502 - Registration Now Open for June 16, 2026 Member Meeting

By Debra McLaughlin posted 7 days ago
On June 16th from 6:30pm - 8pm EDT, American Society for Quality (ASQ) Baltimore Section 0502 Virtual Member Meeting welcomes Program: 50 Ways to Simplify an ISO Management System – Jim Moran MA Ed. Tutorial/Workshop: Applying Principles & Tips to Develop an ISO-based Management System In the Program, Jim Moran will cover best practices for ISO management systems in organizations and the requirements of ISO 9001. In the Tutorial, Jim will engage participants to work through real-world examples of ISO-based Management Systems including Management System Design Principles, Documentation and Control, Risk-based Thinking, Leadership and ...

ASQ Baltimore Section 0502 May 2026 Newsletter

By Debra McLaughlin posted 7 days ago
Hello! Please enjoy the ASQ Baltimore 0502 May 2026 newsletter. Debra McLaughlin Publicity Chair

May 2026 Program Recording is now available for viewing

By Robert Mitchell posted 7 days ago
Dr. Gary Jing proposes incorporating a measure of ROI as an evaluation criterion when identifying potential root causes in RCA and FMEA. To view the recording, click here . Request an RU Certificate from ASQ Phoenix by emailing the VOC Chair with the date of your viewing, and at least one learning from the video.

Process Mapping

By Philip Hansen posted 8 days ago
Process Mapping is a very useful tool that helps make visible the current state of a series of tasks to assist in the improvement of the tasks and the overall process. There are many ways to understand process mapping. One way is to be aware of the common pitfalls in mapping a process. The most common error is diving into improving the process before you have finished mapping it. Participants will bring up exceptions and errors and want to discuss them. The point is about documenting how the work is currently being done, by the people doing the work, not how the process should be followed. Note issues identified but leave them for now. Issues can be prioritized ...

2025 PEP Award- ASQ Vancouver

By Peyman Basirian posted 8 days ago
Proud to share that our team has received the 2025 PEP Silver Award. This recognition reflects the dedication, collaboration, and continuous improvement mindset of everyone involved. Grateful to be part of a team committed to quality excellence and professional growth. Thank you to the ASQ Vancouver community for the recognition and continued support. Looking forward to building on this achievement together. #ASQ #Quality #ContinuousImprovement #Teamwork #Excellence #ProfessionalDevelopment

Team Poly-MANKK Selected as ASQ Hamilton’s Scholarship Award Recipient for 2026

By Michel Guenette posted 9 days ago
ASQ Hamilton resumed its Scholarship Award in 2025, after a brief hiatus tied to COVID and changing the educational institution that we visit. We selected the McMaster Engineering Capstone Expo as the location and the event, where we find worthy projects that reflect the use of quality principles and tools, including statistical methods, to develop new products and to improve processes that ensure products are made right the first time. This year, we selected Team Poly-MANKK, a chemical engineering team, who used statistical methods including DoE, ANOVA, and Regression Analysis in the development of a polysaccharide-based compostable paper coating. Their ...

May 26 - Powering Intelligence: The Future of AI Through Chips, Energy, and Infrastructure - San Fernando ASQ Meeting/Presentation

By Jo Haberstok posted 9 days ago
This looks like a good one - Rhonda Farrell always has great insights to share! Online webinar hosted by the ASQ San Fernando Valley Section 0706 . This virtual event is free, but advance registration is required. (URL listed at end of blog in case link does not work properly) Powering Intelligence: The Future of AI Through Chips, Energy, and Infrastructure Tuesday, May 26, 2026 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm PDT If Artificial Intelligence is often discussed in terms of algorithms, models, and applications, but it's true limiting factor is increasingly physical: compute power and energy availability. This session with ...

LV ASQ March IN-PERSON MEETING - THURSDAY, April 16th, Delizioso Italian Grill, 6:30PM EST

By James Ashe posted 10 days ago
Presenter: Aarti Kamath is a quality professional with more than a decade of experience in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries, specializing in supply chain quality and operational excellence. She holds a Master of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University. Aarti is ASQ-certified as a Certified Quality Engineer (CQE) and a Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence (CMQ/OE). About this topic: As pharmaceutical and medical device companies increasingly rely on contract manufacturers, traditional audit-focused supplier quality models are no longer sufficient to ensure sustained compliance and performance. ...

Boulder Apr 2026 meeting: Basic Statistics Principles and Applications

By Arnold Miller posted 21 days ago
ASQ St Louis MO and Boulder CO Sections 28 Apr 2026 Virtual Meeting video, slides Ran by ASQ St Louis MO section 5:00 pm US-MT Presentation - Speaker: Ron Sedlock, the quality Catalyst - Topic A practical summary of concepts from Basic Statistics: Principles and Applications - NOTE: Recording (52 MB) and slides (1.6 MB) only access via ASQ National Membership - NOTE: Non-ASQ Members to get slides contact Arnold Miller via amiller@memberleader.asq.org - Presentation Recording and slides at https://my.asq.org/viewdocument/asq-st-louis-section-1304-asq-boulder-section-1313-joint-virtual-meeting - Non-ASQ Members Summary at https://my.asq.org/blogs/arnold-miller/2026/05/05/boulder-apr-2026-meeting-basic-statistics-principl ...

How Did I End Up a Quality Engineer – First time I choose quality – 3

By Rebecca Sergio posted 21 days ago
How Did I End Up a Quality Engineer – First time I choose quality – 3 I had been working at my job at the brokerage firm for over two years and loved every minute. More PCs have been added to the brokerage office, and I have a high visibility position. I offer training classes as a group and personal coaching. I remember showing a colleague how to connect with a modem to a bulletin board that clients frequented. Lesson Learned: Be indispensable In addition to the new PCs in the office, I begin taking on responsibilities for the minicomputer. As upgrades are made, I am the person writing down what I need to verify and how to verify. ...

Healthcare Quality Evolution: From Compliance to Continuous Improvement

By Neha Chowrasia posted 23 days ago
Healthcare Quality Evolution: From Compliance to Continuous Improvement Healthcare quality has undergone a profound transformation over the past century. What began as a fragmented effort to standardize care has evolved into a sophisticated, data-driven, and patient-centered discipline. For members of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and quality professionals at large, understanding this evolution is essential—not only to appreciate how far we’ve come, but to anticipate where healthcare quality is headed next. The Early Foundations: Standardization and Accountability In the early 20th century, healthcare quality efforts were primarily focused ...