ASQ Phoenix September 10, 2026 Program Meeting – Virtual
6:00pm – 8:00pm Phoenix (UTC: -7)
AGENDA: All times are Phoenix (MST):
6:00 PM – Welcome
6:05 PM – Brief Announcements
6: 15 PM – Guest Speaker Presentation
7:15 PM – Q&A and Networking
7:45 PM – Phoenix Section Business
8:00 PM – Adjourn
TOPIC: The New FMEA: Greater Focus on Foresight rather than Hindsight
SPEAKER: Charles "Chuck" Cox, Principal at Firefly Consulting
BIO:
Charles Cox brings over four decades of international experience across industries ranging from semiconductors to financial services to aerospace & defense, automotive, medical devices, oil & gas exploration and utilities. Chuck helps technical personnel cut through the noise to determine what’s the best set of concepts and tools in the Operational Excellence “toolbox” to:
a) Gain the maximum leverage for their work efforts,
b) Align quality and improvement concepts with strategic and market-driven goals, and
c) Achieve sustainable results…often building the foundation for further cycles of ongoing (‘continuous’) improvement.
ABSTRACT:
"The New FMEA: Greater Focus on Foresight rather than Hindsight," he will discuss how the basics of the original 3-step FMEA process have been updated to the more insightful 7-step framework. It is designed to be more effective by:
- Surfacing potential failure modes earlier using a systems look at functions analysis, and
- Using the Action Priority logic-based lookup tables to better define the most critical areas for engineering efforts to focus on.
Also, the third FMEA: Supplemental FMEA for Monitoring and System Response will be discussed.
COST: Free. Open to all.
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