Joe Lucas

Dinner Meeting – Root Cause Failure Analysis: Tools, Practices, and Case Histories

November 5, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 12 November 2013

Nick Warren has been a featured speaker at a number of ASQ chapters in the Midwest (including Indianapolis Section 0903), 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 to Failure Analysis is similar to what is seen in the popular TV series, CSI (Crime Scene Investigation). Nick’s lab does not solve crimes against humanity; 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.

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.

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 13 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.To find out more about Nick’s lab, go to www.exelisinc.com/PAL.

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Dinner Meeting: Rethinking User Adoption—A New Solution to an Old Problem

October 1, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 08 October 2013

Program Speaker(s): Ryan Brubaker (Manager, Platform Solutions at Allegient)

Step away from the “carrot and stick” solution to a problem that plagues businesses, managers, and implementers: User Adoption. By focusing on user motivation and temperament, as well as gamification concepts, ideas can be brought to light that will increase user adoption in the real world, all the while delighting your users and increasing customer satisfaction. If you are a user of CRM software or you head up a sales, marketing or customer service team, you will not want to miss this user group presentation.
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Dinner Meeting: If You Can’t Cite it, You Can’t Write It – Auditing

August 20, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

Topic

Audit findings are supposed to be a reflection of the results of the audit. Unfortunately, audit findings become controversial or have little to no impact on improving the auditee and their organization.

This presentation will focus on some of the common issues with audit findings and highlight ways to create effective findings. Attendees will be asked to participate during the presentation to assess findings and have interactive discussion.
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Dinner Meeting: System Reliability and Product Validation

April 2, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 09 April 2013

Registration: 05:30 PM
Workshop / Dinner: 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM
Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center (map)

Topic

Andre Kleyner, the author of two books on reliability and warranty, will talk about Product Reliability, how it is different from Quality and what it takes to build reliable products.

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Dinner Meeting: Meet ASQ Division Leaders (FD&C;, Auditing, Inspection, Biomedical)

March 8, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Registration: 05:30 PM
Workshop / Dinner: 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM
Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center (map)

Topic

Meet Local ASQ Division Members. Brief Presentations and Opportunities for Questions

Food, Drug and Cosmetic Division—Mike Dempsey
Inspection Division—Joe Wesling
Audit Division—Mike Dempsey
Biomedical Division—Anne Stankowitz

Workshop Subject: Juran’s Quality Loop—Howard Cooper

PREREGISTER BEFORE END OF DAY FRIDAY, 08 MARCH FOR CATERING PURPOSES

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ITIL Certification/Quality for IT Services – Monthly Dinner Meeting

January 17, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 12 February 2013

Registration: 05:30 PM
Workshop / Dinner: 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM
Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Schwitzer Student Center (map)

Topic

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)—a set of practices providing a framework for IT Service Management.

This presentation will focus on value to businesses which can be gained through the implementation of the ITIL framework and the ISO/IEC 20000 standard. It is applicable to for-profit, not-for-profit, and government organizations and is scalable to the size of the organization.

While best known for incidents and change management processes as well as help desk functions, ITIL provides a complete framework which flows from business strategy and needs for IT services down to the technical levels of data centers and infrastructure. These can be rolled up to demonstrate value for money to the business.

Presenter

Harold Osborn has worked in IT over 30 years with 14 years of it in IT quality. He holds CSQE from ASQ and is ITIL Expert certified. He also has a BS degree from the IU School of Business and a MSW from the IU School of Social Work.

PREREGISTER BEFORE END OF DAY FRIDAY, 08 FEBRUARY FOR CATERING PURPOSES

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Call for Volunteers ASQ 2013 World Conference

January 9, 2013 by Joe Lucas

UPDATE: The call for volunteers is now closed. Thank you very much for answering the call and see you in May!

The ASQ 2013 World Conference on Quality and Improvement is coming to the Indianapolis Convention Center May 6-8, 2013. Volunteers are needed for the 2013 WCQI.

Volunteer duties may involve the following:

— Room monitoring (to ensure the room is in order)
— Hand out/ distribute an evaluation form and then retrieve completed ones at the end of the session
— Seek assistance as needed if there is an issue with audio/ equipment
— Man one of the information booths and assist attendees with finding rooms, specific sessions, area restaurants or other assistance.

All volunteers will be asked to attend on site training of approximately 45 minutes preferably the weekend of May 4-5 so they are prepared for their duties. As a volunteer we will ask for your availability and try to schedule around it, but will not guarantee that we will be able to do that in all cases. Please let the onsite committee know whether you want to work your 8 hours one day or over the 2 and a half days.

If you volunteer for a minimum of 8 hours, you receive complimentary registration (a savings of $895 for members). You also will receive 1.5 Recertification Units. The conference itself gives you 1 credit for each day you attend.

If interested you can provide your name, email, phone number, address, and ASQ Member number to the following:
sirohnke@gmail.com.

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Kaizen for the Home – Monthly Dinner Meeting

January 5, 2013 by Joe Lucas

Tuesday, 08 January 2013

Registration: 05:30 PM
Workshop / Dinner: 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM
Location: University of Indianapolis, 1400 Hanna Avenue, Indianapolis, IN Switzer Student Center

IS DECLUTTERING AND BEING MORE EFFICIENT AT HOME A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION?

While many quality professionals labor to improve processes in their place of employment, some don’t take the lessons they learn outside the confines of their workplace. Tonight’s program is to share Dan’s journey to deeper understanding of kaizen by living this philosophy out at home.

This presentation will help illuminate how continuous improvement thinking and practice can make family life better, save money, win contests, and even inspire children to adopt a career in quality! We hope you will spend time with us and learn what it takes to be a “kaizeneer”.

Speaker

Dan Lafever brings many years of experience in IT support and continuous improvement to his current position as IT Service Quality manager at Franciscan Alliance. He has his Bachelor’s degree and a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt through Purdue University and holds several IT certifications as well.

In 2012, Dan was a contributor to two books on the subject of kaizen: “Healthcare Kaizen” and “Making IT Lean: Applying Lean Practices to the Work of IT”. Dan lives in Indianapolis with his wife Deena and has four children.

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Plant Tour – Captured Calibration Laboratory

October 3, 2012 by Joe Lucas

What is calibration? Do I care about understanding Measurement Uncertainty? What does measurement traceability mean?

IndyASQ will be hosting a plant tour at Eli Lilly’s Calibration Laboratory.

There will be a brief introductory presentation. The tour will show guests the different laboratories including mass, temperature, pressure, spectrophotometry, and electrical areas. There will be a calibration demonstration of a 1,000 lb weight, an exhibit of weights used, and interactive experiments where YOU will be make measurements in a laboratory setting (using unqualified teaching equipment).

Location

1402 S Dakota St
Indianapolis, IN 46225

Cost

no cost (must be registered to attend)

Agenda

Check-in: 5:30 PM EST
Tour End: 7:30 PM

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Dinner Meeting – Counterfeit Components Video

September 17, 2012 by Joe Lucas

On September 12, 2012, IndyASQ hosted a lecture by Nick Warren on the problem with Counterfeit Components. We took the opportunity to try something new — we recorded the lecture.

Here is Nick’s presentation:

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