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Section
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February
2015 (Volume
65 - Issue 2) |
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Our
objective: To increase awareness,
interest, and involvement in Section activities and quality-related subjects. Visit our web site at http://www.asqmontreal.qc.ca/ |
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1.
Next
Event
Date Thursday, February 19, 2015 Time 4:00 PM Place Supplier
Quality Management in Aerospace
 John Reid Retired **************************************
Please join us on Thursday, February 19th to hear our guest speaker present the topic of Supplier Quality Management in Aerospace. |
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Supplier Quality
Management in Aerospace has evolved through the years in parallel, but
not at the same velocity, as that of the primary airframe
manufacturers role as Airframe Integrators. We will look at this from
the speaker's perspective, as a leader within the Supplier Quality
world at Bombardier Aerospace, who being the 3rd largest
behind that of the often tied for first, Airbus & Boeing.
As with Automotive, the global supply base has grown, while the oversight of it has been pushed further down throughout. Consolidation by many System suppliers has added to the dilution of Supply Chain readiness to support the ever increasing aircraft volumes. Yet, rest assured, flight is still by far the safest mode of transportation. This presentation will be a brief overview of Supplier Quality Management, and the challenges within the industry. John Reid (Retired) has 42 years of Quality experience, with 37 years at Bombardier-Canadair; has lead several teams of professionals strategically located around the world, overseeing the launch of Supplier Quality for 6 game changing aircraft platforms, in both the Commercial and Business realms: the CRJ (Canadair Regional Jet), the Global Express, the New Challengers and closing out his career supporting the successful entry into flight testing of The C-Series. As a voice to the industry and a Senior ASQ member; led teams within the AAQG (American Aerospace Quality Group & Nadcap), supporting the evolution and standardization for the Industry. ******************************************
Cost
FREE for ASQ Members and students Metro: Guy Concordia (Follow the exit Guy Street which opens in the EV building itself) Parking: Paid parking is available near Concordia. Bring
your business cards and be ready to
network. To Register please contact as applicable:
For
additional information about this event please contact:ASQ Members Dr. David Tozer order to get your ASQ recertification credits. Click HERE to register by email. Or you may phone him at at 514-694-2830 For HEC and Concordia students please register with: Dr. Awasthi at: anjali.awasthi@concordia.ca Dr. Mohammad Mannan 514-848-2424 ext. 8972 mmannan@ciise.concordia.ca 3. The Editor's Corner
As someone who enjoys music, I have seen an incredible amount of change in the past 35 years. At first, I would purchase and listen to records or LPs. Then the cassette tape gained favor with the advent of the "Walkman". Not long after, the compact disc came around, with its players including the "Discman". What do all 3 of these music playing media have in common? Superior sound quality, compared to what the general public is being offered today as the new normal. I am referring of course to the MP3 file. Sure, they are easy to download from iTunes and other legal (and illegal) sites, they won't skip like a record or compact disc might, they won't get chewed up like a cassette tape might. But what of the sound quality? MP3s are called compressed files, which makes it sound like you are just squeezing the same amount into a smaller space. Not true. The actual amount of bytes of a MP3 are always less than the WAV (pronounced "wave") file which is produced if you were to convert a song from a compact disc to your computer without any data loss. But when you decide to convert the song from a compact disc into a MP3 file, you are reducing the size of the digital file, and therefore losing data. And the more you decide to reduce, the more data gets lost and inevitably, the lesser the quality of the recording. I still do purchase a vast majority of my music of compact discs. The Quality Professional in me currently will not have it any other way. Perhaps one day the music industry will stop offering music on compact discs, then I will be forced to switch. But until then, I will steadfastly stay true to a format that delivers superior sound quality. Sure, it is way more efficient to get your hands right away on MP3s. But as Quality Professionals, we know that "right away" and "right" can have very different results. *********************************************************
Any feedback? Click on the link in the bottom right corner of this section and let me know. Thanks. |
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4.
A Word
from
your Section Chair
I am honored to serve as Chair of the Montreal Section, a group with a strong legacy of accomplishments in promoting Quality in the Greater Montreal area. I have been a member of our Section for more than 20 years and some of my colleagues on the leadership team have even longer membership time than I – it just makes me feel younger when I say that. I want to thank Bill Wilson, our Past Chair, for his leadership during the last year and a half. Bill left very big shoes for me to fill. As I mentioned last October on election night, I am encouraged by the strength of our leadership team, a very dynamic group with lots of ideas. Those of you who impatiently scrutinized the January edition of your newsletter to read this section would have been disappointed to read the following…: “Francois is currently away from his Section Chair desk.” Actually I was far away from any desk as I was vacationing overseas. We are all very busy with our work and all sort of commitments, and I am sure that our readership will recognize the need to break from our weekly routine and replenish our reserve of potential energy (“energy possessed by a body by virtue of its position relative to others, stresses within itself, electric charge, and other factors”). In my case that replenishment process usually takes one of following three forms: hiking into the wild, martial arts – I have been a practitioner for much longer than my participation with ASQ – or traveling in some remote places where the culture is totally different than mine. That latter one was what I did in January. I have always been fascinated with how different people think and act because of their cultural background. Before mathematics and statistics shaved my beard I was a cultural anthropology student. Being exposed to new paradigms forces me to revisit my own. If such an exercise is of value at the individual level, it should also be at the organization level. Organizational culture can either facilitate or hamper a Quality initiative. Some companies have been so successful implementing a specific Quality model that it has become their flagship. Others have failed trying the same model because their cultural paradigms made it very difficult to carry on the implementation. Yet, some Quality principles remain true in any organization. Also, if you travel to a country with completely different cultural settings than yours, you still know that a given action would trigger a specific reaction because it is ingrained in fundamental human behavior, not culture. This dichotomy between cultural paradigms and fundamental principles will be a recurrent theme in this section of the newsletter – within the Quality context of course. Our series of planned events for 2015 is a made of a good mix a classic Quality topics and more recent developments of interest to Quality professionals. In the spirit of new paradigm exposure that I mentioned earlier, I encourage all our members to attend at least one event on a topic that they are less familiar with. If there are none on our current calendar you are welcome to bring your suggestions to our Program Chair. I am looking forward to meet you at our section events. |
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5.
Had
You Come
to the
Last Event
By
Eric Stern, ASQ Senior Member, CQA,
Publicity co-chair
 Had you come . . . LINKEDIN In
“Using Linkedin
to Network” Raymond Dyer started presenting the benefits of
networking. I include them here: “To help advance a cause and
influence change; To help/teach/coach others; To make friends and
acquaintances; To learn from others; To be informed; To
discover/explore opportunities; To get help from others (e.g. finding a
job)”. Networking principles were followed by specific
Linkedin
functions. They are all visible on the Linkedin site. This compact
presentation was an excellent summary that included graphical
presentations of the choices available. He also showed some of the
traps that one can fall into, e.g. by asking for large amounts of
e-mail feedback.
He recommended using stable e-mail addresses, showed some of the advanced data filtering tools, the access to groups, types of participation (his advice is “Just Be Nice” because of the permanent imprint left on the Internet). For connecting with people he showed how to use the home page, the connections link and the Search tool, mentioning the risk of some connect tools that send an automatic request for connection without allowing any supplementary text (personally I use those tools to access the person’s profile and invite for connection from that point, where more customization is possible). He recommends to only endorse the skills of others that one supports. (Personally I have received an excess of endorsements and became stingy about endorsing others because the process can produce a negative overreaction). Recommendations need a similar self-control. The merit of these processes is that they can strengthen the connection to others and provide recognition that may be reciprocated. Group creation, job searches and job postings were also discussed. Worth mentioning here are some of the potential pitfalls: “Spending too much time in discussions, Connecting to anyone, Exposing oneself to receiving lots of e-mails, Exposing oneself to perceived intentions, e.g. lots of recommendations suddenly might lead one to think that there are plans to move on”. I was surprised by the relatively large crowd attending the event (I have learned that just because I am familiar with the tool most others are also familiar), the fact that no one else has seen the article on Linkedin the most recent Quality Progress, the almost exclusive attention to the albeit extremely important aspect of career promotion; surprised by companies that apparently screen potential employees using single page CVs. When, at the end of the presentation I tried to attract attention to the untapped potential for creating powerful relationships based on the mutual knowledge of skills, talents an preferences that go beyond the listing of past positions in organizations no one has shown any interest in exploring the opportunity. I conclude that I may have to find other ways of exposing the concept. Past working experience and certifications indicate the type of knowledge that a professional has likely accumulated, but says little about his or her preferred way of analyzing situations, solving problems, relating to others, etc. A few years ago the former manager of a massive construction project stated that the key to his success was his rolodex of useful connections. Events are opportunities to more closely get to know others in the community. I dream that transparent exposure of details of personalities can add a superior level of potential interactions in places like Linkedin. **************************************************
Eric Stern, CQA, senior member, publicity co-chair, developmental coach and consultant at Expertech CMSC, expressing his own opinions (ericst@iseffective.com). For networking with local quality professionals explore these groups: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Quality_Montreal/ http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=90170 |
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6. The Interview Corner
We do not have interview for you this month. Please check back in the March 2015! 7.
2015 Planned Events
Date, time, and location will be confirmed as we progress into the year. Most events are planned for Wednesday evenings and are held at the Sheraton Montreal Airport Hotel. Watch the Newsletter and our web site for further details.
Date Event |
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8.
Welcome
to our New Members
JANUARY
2015
Ibrahim Abdul-Nour Lina Maria Alvarez Marie-Josee Delisle Samuel Opoku Emi-Reynolds Mitchel Fortin Amine Guessous Tiffany Mofford Kareem Refaat Sudharshan Shanmugam Carl Turcotte Daniel J. Zrymiak |
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9.
Site
Members
ASQ Montreal Section thanks our Site Members: |
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10.
Other
ASQ
Events
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11. ASQ NewsFebruary
Member Gift: Creating a Culture of Quality A
Wisconsin School District's Lean Route to Improve Student Literacy
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12.
ASQ
Montreal Section Education Program 2015
By
David
Tozer,
Ph.D., ASQ CQE and SSBB, Education & Audit Chair Having ASQ certification gives you an edge in the market and can significantly increase your income. ASQ Certification often leads to higher paying employment. The money invested in education and certification increases chances of finding employment quickly in the down sizing environment we live in. People who take the section sponsored refresher courses, and spend at least twice as much time as spent in the classroom on self study, have an 80%, or better, chance of passing the examination on the first attempt. Certified Quality Engineer Topics include: quality concepts, cost of quality, human resources, team formation and group dynamics, inspection, metrology, sampling, reliability, quality standards, quality audit, statistics, design of experiments, process improvement, liability, and modern management methods for improving quality. Certified Six Sigma Black Belt Topics include: quality concepts, cost of quality, enterprise wide deployment, business process management, project management, team formation and group dynamics, define, measure, analyze, improve, control, lean enterprise, statistics, design of experiments, and design for six sigma. Certified Six Sigma Green Belt Topics include: quality concepts, cost of quality, enterprise wide deployment, business process management, project management, team formation and group dynamics, define, measure, analyze, improve, control, and statistics. Certified Manager of Quality/Organizational Excellence Topics include: quality concepts, quality planning, customer focus, quality standards, project management, cost of quality, team formation and group dynamics, human resources and improvement.
Certified
Quality Auditor Topics
include: quality concepts,
team
formation and group dynamics, management responsibility, audit
objectives, audit preparation, audit conduct, audit reporting,
sampling, and basic statistics.
Questions? In house courses, etc.:Certified Quality Inspector Topics include: quality concepts, team formation and group dynamics, geometry, metrology, reading drawings, mechanical processes, statistical process control, inspection, and sampling. Calendar and Registration Form With more than 35 years practice and teaching in the Quality Field Dr David Tozer PHd.: (514) 694-2830, education@asqmontreal.qc.
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13.
Executive
Committee Meetings & Officers
Section Executive
Committee
(Leadership Team) Meetings are held at different locations, starting at
6 PM. The next regular meeting is tentatively scheduled for : March
3, 2015 Consult the List of Your Executive
for
2015 here |
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14. RecertificationRevised Recertification CostPlease note there are revised costs for recertification. Some members are using the old journal which lists the previous cost. Submitting it this way will only delay your recertification while ASQ attempts to contact you for your permission to use the new price. I have attached the front page of the application journal. Two of them. Both are in PDF format. One is merely a form to print out and complete by hand and the other is a fillable form to be printed out after you have completed it. Basic hand form Fillable form If you are a member of Section 0401 Montreal, then contact Norman Dickinson at certification@asqmontreal.qc.ca or at 514-334-6102 to find out where to send your journal. If you are NOT a member of Section 401, then contact ASQ directly at 1-800-248-1946. 15.
Unemployed Member Dues
Unemployed ASQ members receive a discount on their membership dues based on consecutive years of membership.
Eligibility Criteria
Benefits
NOTE: The following links require that you be logged into your account before you try to activate them. Download the ASQ Unemployment Program
Application
PDF (105 KB) |
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16.
Feedback
Please send us your comments about the ASQ Montreal Section 0401 E-Newsletter (topics, layout, length, etc.). Do you want to contribute an article (English or French) or a good idea? Contact us by e-mail. |
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By
David Tozer,
ASQ CQE and SSBB, Education and Audit Chair