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Section
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November
2019 (Volume
69 - Issue 9) |
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Our objective: To increase awareness, interest, and involvement in section
activities and quality-related subjects. Visit
our LinkedIn group
at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/90170/ |
1.
Next
Event
Date Wednesday, November 27, 2019 Time 6:00 PM Place Securing
Your Data: Should You Be Concerned?
 Marco Estrela Senior Advisor, Managed Services and Security ESI Technologies
Please
join us on November 27th, 2019 to watch
our guest speaker deliver the
topic of Securing Your Data.
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ABOUT
THE PRESENTATION Although he is a business administration graduate, Marco Estrela has found his true passion in information security, an industry in which he has been working since 2009. Marco is in a unique position to listen to clients' security needs and proposes proven measures to mitigate risks and enhance their overall security posture. Over the years, Marco has developed a speciality is social engineering. He regularly conducts physical intrusion tests, and he holds the title of "Vishing Champion" of the 2017 Edition of Hackfest, a hacking competition held yearly in Quebec City.
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COST
$40 for all particpants. Free for ASQ members attending their first event. FREE PARKING!! Dinner will be served at 6:00pm. Arrive early for the food and to network with fellow Quality professionals. Attendees to this event will will recieve 0.5 RUs.
Bring
your business cards and be ready to
network
event@asqmontreal.qc.ca
3. Upcoming ASQ Section
401 Events
Here is a tentative
list of events we are planning for the first half of 2020:
January 21, 2020: Student Outreach - Panel Event at ETS (see Section 9 below). January 29, 2020: Risk in GxP Industries. February 26, 2020: Lean Start-up of a Center for Pediatric Emergencies. March 25, 2020: Women in Quality. April 29, 2020: Counterfeiting in the Food Industry. May 27, 2020: Pecha Kucha Night. Hope to see you all at these events in 2020!! 4. The Editor's Corner
As this is the final Newsletter of the 2019, I want to take up this space by saying THANK YOU to everyone who has taken the time to read them this year. After all these years, I still enjoy what I do for the ASQ, which includes putting together these online newsletters 9 times a year. As well, a Happy Holidays to all of you, and a prosperous and high quality 2020 :-) *******************************************************
Any feedback? Click on the link in the bottom right corner of this section and let me know. Thanks. |
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5.
A Word
from
your Section Chair
We just held our annual General Assembly in October, and we have announced our slate of officers. The four incumbents, Ray, Chantale and Robert as well as myself will retain their roles as described in the Nominations section below. I want to thank my colleagues for the excellent work they have done in the year gone by, and for their commitment to continued support of the section in the year to come. It was announced at the GA that Section 404, who we have collaborated with extensively in the past, has decided not to continue to operate. This will be formalized we believe in February 2020 when the ASQ Board sits and formally dissolves the section. Members of that section will be given a choice of what section they will want to associate with. We expect the majority of the members will attach to our section. In anticipation we have committed, in our yearly business plan, to holding some of our events in French next year. The first of these will be in January 2020 through our Student Outreach Program. You can read about it below. The GA was coupled to our usual monthly speaker event. Marie-Eve Carrier spoke on Quality Assurance in the Cannabis Industry. My eyes were opened to the incredible complexity of the supply chain and of the attendant regulations governing the cannabis business. You can read more feedback from the event below. For those with certifications, the coupling of the two events allowed us to accord double the number of Recertification Units. In this case 1.0 RU instead of the usual 0.5 RU. We occasionally find opportunities to do this and encourage you to take advantage of them when they arise. Our next event, on the 27th, is for everyone: Cyber security. I would hope to see every ASQ member who is a client of Desjardins, a user of Facebook, has data in the i-Cloud, etc. at the event. In closing I would like to acknowledge two of our Leadership Team who have taken mandates this year and who have let us know that they will be pursuing other interests in the new year. Nicoleta Roman our Program and Arrangements Chair picked from where I left off at the end of 2018 and has overseen a series of very well attended and very well received speaker events in 2019. Pierre-Luc Avoine our Voice of the Customer Chair has stayed on top of the feedback from events and provided the analysis we use to set our direction on future events. I would like to thank both for their time, their energy and their innovations. Very much appreciated! |
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6.
Had
You Come
to the
Last Event
By
Amine Djeffal, CQA, RAC, Quality and Regulatory Affairs Professional
 Had you come . . . Quality Assurance in the Cannabis Industry This
year, the presentation following the ASQ annual General Assembly was
given by Marie-Eve Carrier. Marie-Eve was involved in the early
development of the cannabis industry in Canada back in 2014. She became
recognized by Health Canada as QA person in 2017. She is currently
working as Director of Quality and Regulatory Consulting at PipeDreemz
Inc. She is also a teacher at Gerald-Godin College and a member of the
C-45 Quality Association, serving as a national private-sector advocate
for quality in the Canadian cannabis sector.
During the presentation a brief history of cannabis regulation was given. We learnt that cannabis was removed from US pharmacopoiae in 1942. Noteworthy, Canada was the first country of the G7 to legalize cannabis. The regulatory landscape was rapidly evolving from the Medical Marijuana Access Regulations (MMAR) in 2001 to the promulgation of The Cannabis Act and Regulations in 2018. Not only products (seeds, plants, fresh and dried cannabis, oil …) are now authorized for sale via specific licenses in Canada, but the Regulations have been amended in 2019 to add other derived products such as concentrated extracts, edibles and topicals. License requirements were thoroughly discussed during the presentation. There are conditions to be fulfilled by license holders like a Quality Assurance System along with SOPs, Good Production Practices (GPP), hygiene, and compliance reports. The cannabis industry shares some similarities with the pharmaceuticals/biotech industry like record keeping, sanitation, IQ/OQ/PQ, adverse events reporting, CAPA, batch files and, last but not least, risk assessment and management.  There were many questions from the attendees pertaining to the role of the Responsible Person. This person doesn’t report to a Quality Director: he/she is the key person to interact with Health Canada’s inspectors. It is also mandatory to have a Quality Assurance Person (QAP) on site to ensure compliance to regulations. This person needs to have the skills, the knowledge and experience to work in such an environment. However, the QAP role is still not understood. This role shouldn’t be limited to paperwork. Marie-Eve stressed that expertises are needed in this ever-evolving field. Cannabis regulations are hard to follow and interpret even by Health Canada. One of the challenges is how to use Quality and compliance tools to navigate this industry. The search of standardization is another issue that the industry is facing. The presentation was very interesting with a lot of interaction from the attendees. Marie-Eve was challenged by questions coming from people currently working in the cannabis industry, as well as in the pharmaceuticals industry and from other different backgrounds. Discussions extended well after the presentation was over. I really appreciated the whole evening. It was worth the attendance. |
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7. Voice Of The
Customer
event held at Concordia Give
me your feedback by e-mail
8. ASQ Montreal Section
Officers for 2020
 By Rajesh
Kumar Tyagi, ASQ Fellow, Nominating Chair
The General
Assembly was
held, as planned, on October 30, 2018. During this meeting, we
confirmed our ASQ Montreal Section Officers for 2020 as:
Chair: Eric Glenn Hosking Vice-Chair: Chantale Simard Secretary: Raymond E. Dyer Treasurer:
Robert Fairbairn This new team continues
to reflect the best of your section membership leadership. For a
listing of current ASQ Montreal Section 0401 positions, see http://asqmontreal.qc.ca/executive/contacts.html.
For more information on the ASQ position themselves, see http://asq.org/member-leader-community/positions/index.html. If you are ever interested in participating on the ASQ Montreal Section Leadership Team, or have any questions on the roles themselves, please contact your Section Chair at section_chair@asqmontreal.qc.ca or the Nominating Committee Chair at nominating_chair@asqmontreal.qc.ca. Thank
you!
9. Student Outreach
Committee
 By Veronica
Marquez, M.Sc., CSSBB, ASQ Senior Member, Student Outreach Committee
Chair
Can
you believe it’s already November? The trees have almost lost
all their leaves, Halloween is finished, and the Holidays are upon
us… We may be counting the days to Christmas or vacation,
but that doesn’t mean that we have finished our work.  Contactez-moi
pour
plus de détail: VMarquez@sections.asq.org
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10.
Welcome
to our New Members
OCTOBER
2019
Benoit Allain Nicolae Popovici |
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11.
Organization
Members
ASQ Montreal Section thanks our Organization Members: |
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12.
Other
ASQ
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13. ASQ News |
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14.
ASQ
Montreal Section Education Program 2020
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, education@asqmontreal.qc.ca
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15.
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
4, 2019 Consult the List of Your Executive
for
2019 here
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16. Unemployed Members DuesUnemployed 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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