We would like to apologize for the recent disruption in monthly dinner meetings.  Due to an unfortunate series of events, we are unable to hold our February 2015 meeting as intended.

For 2015 the traditional IndyASQ dinner meeting schedule has been revised. We will now offer monthly dinner meetings year round with the exceptions of January and July which have no meetings scheduled.  Information about the March 2015 dinner meeting will be posted as soon as we get our final confirmations.

We welcome everyone to join us for a meeting and look forward to seeing you there!

We received the following email regarding the December joint IAPS meeting:

Due to an unfortunate scheduling issue, Gerry Dick IS NOT available on 12/11; accordingly we are CANCELLING the joint IAPS meeting. Please inform your members (UXPA team – if we could share this news in any post-WUD e-mail, it would be helpful since we spent the time to promote the IAPS meeting at the conference).

To my knowledge, APICS will still hold it’s December meeting as per usual on the 11th and will be engaging a different speaker. If you are an IAPS member not already affiliated with APICS and interested in attending, please reach out to the APICS leadership team. While it will not be a full, joint IAPS event, I am sure it will still be of much value to our community.

We will look into what happened this year so we can hopefully avoid another scheduling challenge and bring back Gerry Dick’s hugely popular talk in 2015.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2014

The November 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, November 11, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.

Program:

Root Cause Failure Analysis: Tools, Practices, and Case Histories
Nick Warren has been the featured speaker at a number of ASQ chapters in the Midwest (including the Indianapolis chapter), discussing Root Cause Failure Analysis and the importance of understanding the Physics of Failure when solving problems in industry. For those unfamiliar with this topic, the analytical instrumentation and disciplined approach of Failure Analysis is similar to what is seen in the popular TV series CSI. Nick’s lab does not solve crimes against humanity like CSI. Instead, they solve the most challenging technical problems found in industry!

Come ready for an interactive multi-media presentation where Nick will share compelling case histories and insights from over 25 years of experience! As time permits, Nick will field your most difficult questions regarding component failures (material, mechanical and electrical). This presentation will be technically informative for those working in the quality, procurement, manufacturing, design, component, and process engineering disciplines. To find out more about Nick’s lab, go to www.exelisinc.com.

If you have a specific failure analysis topic you desire Nick to address either by phone or in the meeting, please contact Nick at nick.warren@exelisinc.com.

Program Speaker:

Nick Warren
Nick Warren manages the Exelis Product Assurance Lab, a world class failure analysis lab located in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Nick has spent 27 years in failure analysis, 14 as an engineer and 14 years as manager of a large multi-disciplined staff of engineers and scientists. The Exelis Product Assurance Lab charter includes performing analytical work for defense, aerospace, biomedical, automotive and commercial companies outside of Exelis. Nick and his staff have expertise in performing failure analysis on a broad range of components, ranging from mechanical fasteners to microelectronic devices and printed circuit board assemblies. The Product Assurance Lab is knowledgeable in most industrial manufacturing processes, material science topics, environmentally-assisted failure mechanisms and electronic component failure mechanisms. Find out more at exelisinc.com/PAL.

Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/november-2014-indyasq-dinner-meeting-tickets-13338496803

Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In

5:45 PM Brief Workshop

6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner

7:00 PM Speaker

8:00 PM Meeting End

Fee: $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK

Food: Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available

Parking: Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year. If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking

Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014

The October 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, October 14, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.

Program:

Auditing Beyond Compliance
Auditing Beyond Compliance (ABC) is an approach different from the traditional auditing programs. Traditional audits focus primarily on compliance with little or no coverage on the other elements of an effective quality program such as risk evaluation, mitigation and continuous improvement. Yes, compliance is key to the success of any organization as it is the foundation of the system and the benchmark of improvement and growth initiatives. A simple model built around the concept of Auditing Beyond Compliance is a tool for initiating the discovery of your system’s ‘hidden factories’. Hidden factories include the many forms of risks (such as process variations, wastes, etc) not typically uncovered during the traditional compliance audits. This model can also be applicable in preparing your system for the upcoming ISO change to ensure continued compliance and at the same time apply basic lean tools in identifying improvement opportunities. It is not required to have a lean experience to understand and implement this ABC model.

Program Speaker:

Janet Bautista Smith
Janet Bautista Smith has more than 25 years of experience in quality management role in manufacturing environments for medical devices telecommunication, aerospace, and military standards. She has developed from ground zero and sustained systems under the regulation of the FDA, ISO/TS 16949, TL 9000, AS 9100, CTPAT. She is currently the Director of Quality and Continuous Improvement at Protrans, a 3PL/Logistics industry that has embraced the lean culture as one of its competitive differentiators.

Janet has a Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Santo Tomas, a US accredited university in the Philippines. She also has ASQ/GE Six Sigma Black Belt Certification. Her ASQ certifications include: CQA, CQE and CQM. Janet is also the author of “Auditing Beyond Compliance”. Janet has presented tutorials in several ASQ Conferences (Audit, Lean and Education Divisions) and is a regular contributor of lean articles for the Quality Progress magazine. Janet has also presented lean workshops sponsored by Purdue University as part of the community outreach in the application of lean culture. She is currently partnering with Purdue University in support of this initiative.

Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-oct-2014-dinner-mtg-tickets-9752665485?aff=eorg

Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In

5:45 PM Brief Workshop

6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner

7:00 PM Speaker

8:00 PM Meeting End

Fee: $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK

Food: Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available

Parking: Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year. If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking

Date: Tuesday, September 9, 2014

The September 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, September 9, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.

Program:

Process Control: Comparing Statistical Process Control (SPC) and Engineering Process Control (EPC)
Historically two major approaches to managing the variability of manufacturing processes have been developed. Engineering Process Control (EPC) developed out of the process industries (oil, chemical, …) whereas Statistical Process Control (SPC) developed out of the discrete parts industries (auto parts, bottles, …). These two approaches have much in common but also have distinct differences. This presentation will discuss both approaches, pointing out their similarities and differences, as well as showing how each approach makes sense given the attributes of the industries for which they were developed. The presentation will also discuss where each of these approaches should be applied and the ramifications if one is applied when the other should have been used. A hybrid approach, Statistical Process Adjustment (SPA), will also be discussed. Finally, some examples of the applications of some of the ideas discussed will be presented.

Program Speaker:

Dr. Bernard McGarvey
Dr. Bernard McGarvey is the group leader responsible for process modeling applications at Eli Lilly and Company. His group supports the application of process modeling in both manufacturing and process development. He has thirty years experience in manufacturing where he has held positions in process engineering, process control engineering, and technical services. His interests include general mathematical modeling and simulation, process data analysis, capacity/workflow modeling, risk management, fluid dynamics, non-linear model estimation and quality engineering. He has a B. Eng. degree and a Ph. D. from University College Dublin, Ireland. He is the co-author of the book “Dynamic Modeling for Business Management”. He is a member of the editorial advisory board for the Journal of Validation Technology and has been a co-author of a regular column on the Analysis and Control of Variation for this journal. He is on the advisory board for the Department of Chemical Engineering at Rose Hulman Institute of Technology. He is a member of the PDA.

Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-sept-2014-dinner-mtg-tickets-12526648543?aff=eorg

Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In

5:45 PM Brief Workshop

6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner

7:00 PM Speaker

8:00 PM Meeting End

Fee: $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK

Food: Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available

Parking: Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year. If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking

Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2014

The April 2014 IndyASQ Meeting will be held Tuesday, April 8, 2014 at Roche Diagnostics.

Program:

Plant Tour — Roche Diagnostics Manufacturing

Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-april-2014-mtg-plant-tour-roche-diagnostics-no-dinnerno-fee-tickets-9778510789

Location: Roche Diagnostics, 9115 Hague Road, Indianapolis, IN 46250

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In

5:45 PM Tour

Fee: Free

Food: No dinner for this meeting!

Parking: TBA

Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2014

The March 2014 IndyASQ Dinner Meeting will be held Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at the University of Indianapolis.

Program:

Building the First “Steamship” in History, with Quality in Mind

John Busch will provide a historical perspective on Quality based on research for his book Steam Coffin.

Program Speaker:

John Laurence Busch

John Laurence Busch is an independent historian who focuses upon the interaction between humanity and technology, with a focus on the first generation of steam-powered vessels. He has devoted years of research to discovering the true story of Captain Moses Rogers and the steamship Savannah.

This led him to scour archives and libraries from Portland, Maine to Savannah, Georgia, and many locales in between, to piece together the life and career of Moses Rogers, as well as the actors and events that resulted in the formation of the Savannah Steam Ship Company, and the construction of the steamship Savannah.

This research inevitably continued across the Atlantic Ocean, where John searched the archives of the United Kingdom, and with the assistance of others, the archives of other European countries which experienced this Wonder of the Age called the steamship Savannah.

The result is STEAM COFFIN, the most descriptive account of the saga of Captain Moses Rogers and the steamship Savannah ever written. The foundation for such a story rests upon the contents of never-before-published manuscripts and newspaper articles, which provide an abundance of new details illuminating the actions and attitudes of those who participated in, and witnessed, the creation and voyage of the Savannah.

John’s careful weaving together of many disparate sources results in a narrative that recalls both the fabric and style used in storytellings of old. It also shows just what Captain Moses Rogers and the steamship Savannah accomplished for eternity.

STEAM COFFIN has received positive reviews from more than two dozen periodicals in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia.

Register at: http://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-march-2014-mtg-building-the-first-steamship-in-history-with-quality-in-mind-tickets-9778468663

Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In

5:45 PM Brief Workshop

6:00 PM Announcements/Dinner

7:00 PM Speaker

8:00 PM Meeting End

Fee: $12.00 Prepaid / $15.00 at Door CASH/CHECK

Food: Dinner is served buffet style with vegetarian and fresh fruits/salads available

Parking: Parking restrictions in student lots are enforced from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM during academic year. If an area is not marked as a parking stall, it is not intended for parking