Meeting Date: September 8, 2015
Come ready for an interactive multi-media presentation where Nick will discuss root cause and corrective action principles transferrable to almost any industry. As part of his presentation, Nick will share compelling case histories and insights from over 25 years of failure analysis experience in the Defense and Aerospace industry!
Program Speaker:
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.

Location:

Room: UIndy Hall B
Schwitzer Student Center
University of Indianapolis
1400 Hannah Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In
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.

Meeting Date: August 11, 2015
The rate of change in healthcare has done everything but slow down over the last few years. More than ever, the ability to adapt to change has become foundational in modern-day healthcare strategy development and deployment.
In the current environment that healthcare operates in, concepts like strategy activation, talent management, and change leadership have grown tenfold. This presentation discusses the high-level strategic model of Community Health Network’s Performance Improvement program and how Community is using Lean Six Sigma to keep pace with the rapid changes in healthcare. Additionally, the speakers will highlight strategies to implement Lean Six Sigma thinking in your organization.

Program Speaker:
Tom West, MBB, PMP – Performance Improvement, Community Health Network
Sarah Helms, PMP – Performance Improvement, Community Health Network

Location:

Room: UIndy Hall B
Schwitzer Student Center
University of Indianapolis
1400 Hannah Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In
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.

Meeting Date: July 14, 2015

As manufacturing processes become more complex, using experience or intuition to make decisions on how best to modify workflow processes to improve throughput, reduce cycle time, reduce work-in-progress and so on, becomes much more risky. This presentation will begin by illustrating this point with such a workflow improvement decision. The first approach will be based on the intuition of the audience. The remainder of the presentation will show how Discrete Event Simulation (DES) can be used to model the specific workflow process involved and how it easily leads to the correct decision. Further, the use of DES makes it easier to explain to management why it is the right solution so that they have a high degree of confidence that the proposed improvement(s) will be successful. By attending this presentation, attendees not familiar with DES will get an excellent idea of how powerful this approach can be if used appropriately.

Program Speaker:
Bernard McGarvey, Ph.D., Senior Engineering Advisor, Eli Lilly and Company.

Location:

Room: UIndy Hall B
Schwitzer Student Center
University of Indianapolis
1400 Hannah Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In
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.

In the May 2015 Quality Progress article titled “Seeing is Believing”, Gregg Young introduced a new tool called an Active-time Profile that provides insight into cycle-time reduction opportunities and clearly highlights the impact of process improvements. Donald Reinertsen’s book “The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development” describes a Process Flow Diagram that is simple to create and also highlights the impact of process improvements on queues, cycle-times and throughput. We will explore the value of these tools by a demonstration in which meeting attendees will participate in a process simulation, generating data before and after process improvements based on lean principles.

Program Speaker:
Jim Grimes is a Senior Advisor for the Indianapolis Section of ASQ.

Location:

Room: UIndy Hall B
Schwitzer Student Center
University of Indianapolis
1400 Hannah Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Meeting Agenda:

5:30 PM Check In
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.

On a list of executive-related business issues, your biggest company concern for 2015 is filling the skills-gap and leveraging your talent. [Forbes.com, Feb.11, 2014]. Quit struggling with your demand. Your inability to attract, retain and develop talent will chock your talent pipeline. Demandis about how to better utilize your in-house talent as an “off-balance sheet” asset. If your company is running at a 70% capacity utilization rate, it has room to increase production up to 100% rate without increasing costs. Correct? You can achieve the same capacity utilization rate with talent.

Key Points You Will Learn:

• How to shrink the widening skills gap for a sustainable pipeline of talent.
• How to capitalize on your in-house talent for building a ready workforce.
• How to calculate future earnings of your talent for advanced manufacturing.
• How to leverage your in-house talent for more market share, profit and lean success.
• How to qualify your Subject-Matter-Experts and/or Trainers for workforce development.

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