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Section
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November
2015 (Volume
65 - Issue 9) |
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Our
objective: To increase awareness,
interest, and involvement in Section activities and |
| 10 - 2016 Slate Of Officers | 16 - Unemployed Member Dues | |
| 17 - Feedback/Advertising Rates | ||
1.
Next
Event
Date Wednesday, November 25, 2015 Time 6:00 PM Place AS9100
Revision 2016 (Key Changes)  Mr. Roger Pelletier ASQ Section 404 Chair Bombardier Aerospace Quality Engineering Coordinator **************************************
Please join us on Wednesday, November 25th to hear our guest speaker present the topic of AS9100 2016 (Key Changes). |
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Ad
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Publicité
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Following the
release of ISO9001:2015 in September 2015, the AS9100 standard
needs to change to embed the ISO 9001 requirements, to consider
Aviation, Space and Defense stakeholders’ needs identified
since the last revision, and also to consider clarifications to 9100
series requests issued by IAQG since the last revision.
This presentation will provide an overview of the key changes and new requirements. The participants will understand how the new revision will affect their Quality System, and set the tone to get prepared for the transition within the ISO9001 timeline. Roger Pelletier has gained experience in products and software development in the context of quality standards AS9100 and ISO9001, the ISO14001 for environmental standards and SEI SW-CMM for international companies. He established and ensured continued success with quality and environmental management systems with different organizations by combining several functions at Oerlikon Aerospace (defense), Ericsson (cellular infrastructure) and Via Rail, the national rail carrier. Roger graduated from Sherbrooke University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He has been working for Bombardier Aerospace since 2004, involved in quality management system audits, project management, and continuous improvements. One of his key achievements is the improvement of conformity audits by adding risk-based auditing and the introduction of process effectiveness analysis techniques. He also represents Bombardier Aerospace in the AAQG (Americas Aerospace Quality Group) on the certification agencies, and quality system standards auditors in Aerospace, Defense and Military AS9100 Oversight Committee. Roger is a Certified Quality Engineer and has been an ASQ member for over 20 years. He is very active in Section 404 Montreal Francophone executive committee for more than 10 years, holding various leadership roles. He is an ASQ Senior Member and currently Section 404 Chair. *****************************************
Bring
your business cards and be ready to
network. To
register for any event or for more information on events please
contact:
Dr. David Tozer E-mail: event@asqmontreal.qc.ca 3. The Editor's Corner
A few things to touch on for this last Newsletter of 2015: 1) Firstly, I encourage everyone to make it out to our November dinner event. Our speaker with be a former colleague of mine from Bombardier Inc., Roger Pelletier. He will discussing the changes that are forthcoming for the AS9100 aerospace quality standard in 2016. This was an inevitable occurrence, what with the 2015 revision of the ISO9001 having come out a short while ago. Don't miss this chance to start learning about the upcoming differences/changes! 2) Some feedback from a reader regarding my last Editor's Corner piece regarding election voter lists: "Hi Michael, great article!! As a political junkie and past volunteer on several elections, I can attest that the process of managing lists is completely outdated. Not only does Election Canada manage electors lists but each party has a software that allows them to manage their calls and visits to identify voters so that come election day, they can get the vote out. These softwares are populated with information from Election Canada. Yet during the election campaigns, Election Canada continues (at least during the 2010 election) to send boxes and boxes and boxes of printed lists to each candidate’s office. It is not only an unsurmountable amount of paper that no one has the time to sort through but a complete waste as I don’t remember anyone using the paper lists to work. There is certainly a lot of QUALITY that could be introduced into elections and governance." Thank you to Veronica Marquez for the feedback. 3) Lastly, an appreciative and modest thank you to my fellow ASQ colleagues for bestowing upon me the 2015 ASQ Montreal Section Quality Award during our dinner event in October 2015. I will do my best to continue the good work.  *******************************************************
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
Recently I aggravated an old sport injury to my knee. This time the recovery process takes much longer. I have to limit my commute to the minimum and have been using crutches for more than two weeks. Progress is there but it is slow. Every difficult life experience comes with its bundle of lessons to be learned. Some of the lessons have to do with prevention, or how not get into such situations in the first place. Since I have always been very active physically, sport injuries and the lessons learned about them are numerous. This time however, my bundle of lessons include some unexpected ones. Each and every time that I had to leave my home to venture out on my crutches, I encountered people that literally went out of their way to help me. These include my coworkers, my friends, but also complete strangers. Maybe such gestures of compassion are not that exceptional to you, but for me they are. I usually think that most people consider that they are too busy to spontaneously offer help to strangers when that means slowing down their own activity of the moment. I must confess that I have been this kind of person at times, reassuring myself that somebody else will help for sure. The lesson learned in my case is that most people are actually not that careless, quite the opposite. As soon as I have fully recovered from that injury, I promise myself that I will offer more help on a systematic basis even if that means “slowing me down”. Definitely, my ethos has been modified in the last weeks. I can hear some fellow technical quality professionals ask what all this have to do with quality. I think that a good ethos is prerequisite to purposeful quality endeavors. Also, we hear more and more about social responsibility in the business world. A search on the ASQ website will point to many resources on corporate social responsibility. I am not a whiz on the topic, but it seems to me that helping another human being – struggling with reduced mobility or something else – is a good start. Social responsibility can start at the individual level. |
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5.
Had
You Come
to the
Last Event
By Gordon
Ayotte, ASQ Director, CQE, CQM, CSSBB
 Had you come . . . NETWORKING ON TWITTER On
Wednesday, October 28th, ASQ Section 401 had a presentation on Twitter
by Eleonor Jasmin, who did a wonderful job of introducing the audience
on the benefits and workings of this social media tool.
Twitter which is similar to Facebook and LinkedIn: it can be used to keep up to date on breaking news, local and world events, networking, staying in touch with friends and colleagues, as well as sharing information and learning from others, promoting products and services, assist in finding new opportunities and have discussions (Tweets) on various subjects and point of views in real time.  You do need to have a Twitter account similar to your email account on Linkedin, you can add photos and videos. However, Twitter is different in that it is more open/public, so once you post a Tweet it can be seen to all who have a Twitter account. A Tweet does not have to be to a specific person or group of persons, your ''Followers'' decide if there are going to look at your Tweet. It is a bit like listening to the radio, you decide which radio station you want to follow and which topics you follow.  There are some specifics that distinguish Twitter from other Social Media: it has a Funky Terminology and syntax, it uses a hashtag (#) to facilitate tracking and searches and ''Tweetup''- a meetup of Twitter users who share a common interest, your username is referred to as a ''Twitter Handle'', to schedule a Tweet you can use the application ''Hootsuite'' and a Tweet can only be 140 characters. Members are invited to contribute to the ASQ Montreal Twitter account. Share information (Quality related as in new practices, case studies, job openings, events, etc.) by sending it to social.media@asqmontreal.qc.ca.  |
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6. Voice Of The
Customer
The final element of our summer survey played out at the October General Meeting. We drew a survey response from a bowl of all responses to determine who would be the recipient of the $50 Amazon gift certificate. Laurent Haviernick is that winning member.
Our planning session has used input from the survey and input from the feedback sheets we get, at each conference or event that we host, to set the conference themes. Top themes we will address in the near future: Networking, subjects from the Pharmaceutical world and registration. See Section 7 below.
7.
2016 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
OCTOBER
2015
Jean Carlos Duran Villamizar Roya Kalbassi Valerie Lacoux Isaac Nobre Rama Rajarathinam Sapandeep S. Randhawa Mitchel Roda Ken Murdock Majid Shakeel David G. Smith Omid Taagholi |
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9.
Organziation
Members
ASQ Montreal Section thanks our Organization Members: |
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10. 2016 Slate of
Officers (Stay The Course)
On Wednesday October 28, 2015, the following Slate of Officers was formally elected for the January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2016 term: Chair: François Pageau
Vice-Chair: Robert Demers Secretary: Chantale Simard Treasurer: William (Bill) Wilson Congratulations to the team; all four coming back into office for a second term. The Montreal ASQ Montreal Section 0401 Leadership Team and its General Assembly look forward to your leadership in 2016. 11.
Other
ASQ
Events
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12. ASQ NewsNovember
Member Gift:
Supplier Quality Content Strategic
Plan for 2020
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13.
ASQ
Montreal Section Education Program 2016
By
Dr. 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.
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 Questions?
In house
courses, etc.: Dr. David Tozer: (514) 694-2830,
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14.
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 : December
1, 2015 Consult the List of Your Executive
for
2015 here |
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15. RecertificationIs
Your
Recertification Due?
Look at your wallet card to see when your present certification is due to expire. If it says December 31, 2014 you are in time. Get your journal, with supporting objective evidence (you should know what that is), to me before the end of June 2016 or it will lapse completely and you will no longer be certified. If it says that you are due in June 2015 then you have until the end of 2015 to submit your journal or it will lapse. If your certification lapsed before December 2014 you should contact ASQ by phone 1-800-248-0946 and explain your situation to them because you are no longer certified. Maybe you’ve decided not to recertify because (a) you are unemployed, (b) no longer in the quality field or perhaps, (c ) your employer no longer will pay for it? Think about this, your certification belongs to you and no one else. Your name is on it and no one else’s. It is portable and you can bring the recognition to your next company. Remember how hard you had to study for it? If you let it lapse you must rewrite the exam. Do you know where you will be employed in a year or so? Well congratulations if you do because most of us don’t and it could come in handy then, it sure won’t hinder you to retain it. The cost at $59 USD to renew one certification is much less than it would to rewrite. If you are unemployed then contact ASQ directly at 1-800-248-1946. Ask for “Recertification” then explain your unemployment situation to them. You may be able to have your due date extended. But at $59.00 that is not really that much if it will help land your next job? If you are a member of Section 0401, Montreal then contact me (Norman) at certification@asqmontreal.qc.ca 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. Please DO NOT SEND your journal by e-mail. Use Canada Post. 16.
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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17.
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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it on
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By
David Tozer,
ASQ CQE and SSBB, Education and Audit Chair 