Matt G

Quality Systems - Turning into Business Sytems Yippee

Automotive - Engineering Currently 6 yrs Aluminium Chassis (Lotus & DB9)

Hydro - Worcester England

13 months in current role

Not settling for second best and it's got to be better than last time.....

Tripping over other peoples detail...

Telepathy with the Certification Bodies.

Hope I can give as much as I take from this network of like minded people.
"QS9000 is dead - long live TS16949"

Matt G

Welcome to the Cove, Matt:agree1: . Feel free to jump right in and share your knowledge and experience, especially with regard to clairvoyance:lol: .

1. Lawrence Lim
2. Assistant Quality Engineer (Mechanical-Plastics Injection Mould)
3. Electronics R&D and Manufacturing for Harddisk
4. JVC Electronics Singapore Pte Ltd (Singapore)
5. 2years
6. Got a degree in International Supply Chain instead of continue from my Diploma in Manufacturing.
7. Why can't the suppliers do it GOOD and do it RIGHT when they can do it. :(
8. Set a lifespan to each quality group.

Welcome to the Cove, Lawrence :bigwave:

7. Why can't the suppliers do it GOOD and do it RIGHT when they can do it. :(

Probably for the same reasons that the customers can't :D.

Otherwise, I would go jobless.
LOL.

Nowadays should be Price for Quality.
Cost reduction plans etc, the $ paid for = quality received.

Hi Guys,

I hope this post works properly.

1. Gary

2. Quality Assurance Coordinator

3. Asset recovery

4. Equity Technologies, Mobile, Alabama USA
I guess you would call my company a service company. We recover
assets, especially telephone systems, computer systems and networks for
leasing companies. We then audit the recovered systems and place them
in our warehouse. We supply the information from the recovery and audit
to the leasing company, and store the assets until our customer decides
the disposition of the asset.
That disposition may be to scrap the assets, they may also ask us to ship
the assets to another location where they have re-leased the equipment,
or they may ask us to sell the equipment for them on ebay or another
on-line site.

5. Started last Wednesday

6. I have no quality experience.

Up until last week I was Programmer/Analyst. I was moved into my current
position by the CEO of my company. The CEO wants to be ISO9000 and
6Sigma compliant asap. The sad thing is there are no known quality
manuals or procedures in existence, so I will be starting from scratch.
My CEO said the reason I was chosen was because of my analytical skills
and because of my poven skill at documentation.

In the past I have participated in forums related to the Information Systems
occupation and have found them to be a great source of knowledge.
At the outset I will probably not have much assistance to offer people at this
forum as I grow into this new career, but in the future I hope to be of assistance to someone.

Thanks in advance to you all,

Gary

Hi Guys,

I hope this post works properly.

1. Gary

2. Quality Assurance Coordinator

3. Asset recovery

4. Equity Technologies, Mobile, Alabama USA
I guess you would call my company a service company. We recover
assets, especially telephone systems, computer systems and networks for
leasing companies. We then audit the recovered systems and place them
in our warehouse. We supply the information from the recovery and audit
to the leasing company, and store the assets until our customer decides
the disposition of the asset.
That disposition may be to scrap the assets, they may also ask us to ship
the assets to another location where they have re-leased the equipment,
or they may ask us to sell the equipment for them on ebay or another
on-line site.

5. Started last Wednesday

6. I have no quality experience.

Up until last week I was Programmer/Analyst. I was moved into my current
position by the CEO of my company. The CEO wants to be ISO9000 and
6Sigma compliant asap. The sad thing is there are no known quality
manuals or procedures in existence, so I will be starting from scratch.
My CEO said the reason I was chosen was because of my analytical skills
and because of my poven skill at documentation.

In the past I have participated in forums related to the Information Systems
occupation and have found them to be a great source of knowledge.
At the outset I will probably not have much assistance to offer people at this
forum as I grow into this new career, but in the future I hope to be of assistance to someone.

Thanks in advance to you all,

Gary

Welcome to the Cove, Gary:bigwave: We're here to help, so don't hesitate to ask for it as you go along.

Andrew Barnes

This is my first post.

Plastic Injection Molding in CO, USA

Inspector/Auditor

I've been an inspector for a little over 2 years and am working towards my ASQ CQT. I hope to be sitting for my CQE in about 5 years or so

We are a 24x5 shop of about 40 people. Our quality department is 1 Quality manager, 1 inspector per shift and a Document Control Person (currently vacant)
As a side note, I've found a lot of really useful information here and I've learned a lot from the posts. Thanks Marc and everyone else for this valuable tool.

1. Andrew M. Groves
2. Operations Director, supporting Quality
3. Fire Alarm Cable
4. Ventcroft Ltd, Cheshire, UK.
5. 2 Years
6. I love it when a plan comes together, Quality is for the many not just for the few.
7. Opinions, grey areas, ambiguity, interpretation.
8. I wouldn’t change very much in the world of quality but what I would change is, remove the mystique, encourage everyone to actively take part not just those who understand the complexity of the words, break down the barriers and encourage those who believe quality involves more work to come in from the cold and understand the positive impact quality has on the whole organisation, not just the individual........

1.Brad Tibben
2.Quality Tech
3.Millwork
4.Pella corp
5.6-7 yrs at Pella
6.I rebuild band instruments and service them in my own shop
7.Not being able to do what is needed to fix root cause-(lack of support)
8.Give quality as much power as managers to get things done.

I,m a first timer in a forum- taking CQT in Mar and CQE/M Later
Great info found in short time I have been on forum-

1.Brad Tibben
2.Quality Tech
3.Millwork
4.Pella corp
5.6-7 yrs at Pella
6.I rebuild band instruments and service them in my own shop
7.Not being able to do what is needed to fix root cause-(lack of support)
8.Give quality as much power as managers to get things done.

I,m a first timer in a forum- taking CQT in Mar and CQE/M Later
Great info found in short time I have been on forum-

Welcome to the Cove, Tubafixer :bigwave: .

Feel free to jump right in. I'll remember you next time my tuba is broken:D .

Hi there,
My name is Cheryl and i am from Malaysia. Am currently a Quality Management Representative for ISO 9001:2000. Have gone through many websites on ideas, but went through yours via browsing. I find this to be useful to my team members and hope to be involved especially with the forum. Thank you.

Truly,
Cheryl

Hi there,
My name is Cheryl and i am from Malaysia. Am currently a Quality Management Representative for ISO 9001:2000. Have gone through many websites on ideas, but went through yours via browsing. I find this to be useful to my team members and hope to be involved especially with the forum. Thank you.

Truly,
Cheryl
Glad to have you drop in, Cheryl!:bigwave: Welcome!

We'll be looking forward to your future posts.

1. Cindy Combs
2. R&M Coordinator
3. Weld & Assembly Automation
4. Gonzalez Production Systems in Pontiac, Michigan
5. Since 1982 - See profile for more info
6. My rep is that I get things done.
7. It's F.M.E.A. - not FEEMAA!!!
8. I wouldn't change the world of quality, I'd change the world of business and see quality given the same attention as finance. Well, everyone has to have a dream. :lmao:

1. Mike Thompson
2. Quality Manager
3. Current: Automotive Previous: Aerospace, Fire Sprinkler, Industial Packaging
4. Bridgestone APM (Automotive Seating), Upper Sandusky, Ohio
5. 20 Years
6. I'm a jack of all trades. Good at a lot of things, but no master yet at one.
7. Different registrars with different expectations/interpretations of ISO standard requirements. Auditors that don't stick to the "shalls" in the standard.
8. Require every plant manager to have spent at least 3 years doing Quality Manager role.

:agree1:

Hello all,
I am Ken Fagan, Quality Coordinator for a Transportation, Distribution, Fulfillment provider for the pharma industry. I am based in New Jersey, travel occasionally to our other facilities throughout the country.
Newly appointed to Quality. I have been with my company forever and have seen us grow every year for the last 23 years. (started at age 17 on the shipping dock)

My pet peeve is pet peeves, get over it already....
Just kidding....

Change is inevitable, why people still resist it is a mystery to me.

We have been doing a Quality job for years. Our client list and our accounting ledgers reflect that. I just have to make our documents reflect it now.

Regards, Ken

1. Name = kei_ko (sorry, prefer not to say)
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do = Regional QMS Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in = packaging, aerospace, shipping
4. Company you work for and location = prefer not to say, Asia Pacific
5. Length of time in quality function = 8 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart = cool as ice
7. Your pet peeve in quality = lack of recognition when things goes right
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? = instill ownership of quality during birth

hope that helps :)

Welcome to the Cove, all of you :bigwave: I note that some of you have already started posting... Good post in the QMS implementation in Banks (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=15251) thread, kei_ko.

/Claes

thank you Claes... glad i could help :)

1. Name: Tim Williams
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Quality Director, Principal
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Custom Software Development Services
4. Company you work for and location: Logikos, Inc. - Fort Wayne, IN
5. Length of time in quality function: Two years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Perseverence
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Shortsighted Perspectives
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: Perhaps make it easier for others like myself who are relatively new to formal quality management systems to understand effective quality systems and how to develop and implement their own. Perhaps easier access to each other's quality manuals, procedures, etc. Hopefully this would promote more consistency in the world of quality systems and therefore, more universal acceptance, and ultimately, effectiveness. I chose to join this forum because it appears to perhaps be one of the best vehicles to achieve this.

My Name is Vinodh
Working as Asst. Manager -Engineering Department
Automobile OEM Parts Manufacturers
Japanese COncern
1 Year in Production, 2 Years in Quality and 3 years in Engineering
Listening to Music (all types) and browsing over net.

My educational background Mechanical Engineering, and Business Administration

Hi, I'm new here.... my name is Hong Fong, from Malaysia. Am currently works as Sr quality engineer for sub-con management. I had been reading the forums over here for weeks and found that this is helpful and fantastic forum i ever see. I can get a lot of informations i needed for my job function. Perhaps i can participate more actively this forum for coming future. Cheers..

Sincerely,

Hong Fong

Hi, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I'd like introduce myself to you.
1. My name is Jeff Xu, and I am a gentleman from China, which may be a mysterious country in east for many of you.
2. I am a quality engineer reponsible for handling material issue and manage supplier.
3. I am working in electronic industry
4. Now, I working in an EMS factory, and had worked in PCB and transformor company in China.It is not proper to their names here
5. About 4 years
6. Quiet.
7. Received 100% wrong material from supplier
8. Yield:100%:
:topic:

Hi, folks, and welcome to the Cove!

We are getting more and more international by the day, it seems, which is a very good thing. I hope you all feel at home here, and will share your experiences with us.

Again, welcome!!!

1. Name: James Rewis
2. Job Title: Quality Inspector
3. Industry: Swiss Manufacturing
4. Company and Location: Precision-Tek Mfg., Inc.-Arlington Heights, Illinois
5. Time in Quality: U.S. Navy (10 Years), Manufacturing (4 years)
6. What sets me apart: Diversity! Wearing different hats not only provides job security but also allows me to understand many different sides to quality and how quality is impacted from different sources.
7. Pet peeve: Those who live inside "the box" and only see things in black and white. Like SPC, random is a good thing.
8. What I would change: My understanding of my role as a quality professional.
I have a degree in business and I am studying manufacturing engineering. I have pretty much just scratched the surface of quality and I am eager to learn as much as I can. I am a sponge. Got Water?

1. Name: James Rewis
2. Job Title: Quality Inspector
3. Industry: Swiss Manufacturing
4. Company and Location: Precision-Tek Mfg., Inc.-Arlington Heights, Illinois
5. Time in Quality: U.S. Navy (10 Years), Manufacturing (4 years)
6. What sets me apart: Diversity! Wearing different hats not only provides job security but also allows me to understand many different sides to quality and how quality is impacted from different sources.
7. Pet peeve: Those who live inside "the box" and only see things in black and white. Like SPC, random is a good thing.
8. What I would change: My understanding of my role as a quality professional.
I have a degree in business and I am studying manufacturing engineering. I have pretty much just scratched the surface of quality and I am eager to learn as much as I can. I am a sponge. Got Water?

Welcome to the Cove, James. Another of our moderators also spent "quality" time in the Navy (Jennifer Kirley). You'll find plenty to soak up around here--jump right in!

Name : Andy Gourlay

Job Title: QA Auditor

Industry: Semi Conductors

Company / Location : Shin Etsu Handotai Europe / West Lothian Scotland

Time In Quality : A little over two years ....... yes very new to all this

Sets me apart: Like to spend waht little spare time I have watching rugby

Pet Peeve: Failure to see one project through to completion before starting the next

What I would change: Some real proper management buy in!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Hello ladies and gentlemen,
1. Name: Pavel Cizek
2. Job Title: Quality Consultant and Auditor
3. Industry: Mostly Mechanical Engineering (automotive included)
4. Company and Location: private, Czech Republic
5. Time in Quality: Mechanical Engineering (10 years), Shipbuilding Industry (6 years), Automotive Industry (6 years)
6. What sets me apart: Contemplativeness
7. Pet peeve: Inconsistent expectations from various parties involved in the quality
8. What I would change: Existing trend of decrease in the standards of the quality world. Harmonisation of those requirements of various customers that are similar and could be harmonised.

A quick intro
My name is Mark and I am a Quality Engineer for an Electronics Contract Manufacturer
I have been knocking around in this field for 15 Years.
I have to be honest in that until now I treated the world of Quality tools such as TQM TQC and the many American and Asian philosophies as passing phases (much like the latest gismo from JML). Useful in their own right environment and with lots of useful guidelines, theories and idea's but somehow never totally sat happy with the constantly changing product base that, well, constantly changed! It did leave me as a Realist and a great believer in Poke Yoke in all manner of applications. Times however have caught up with me and after living under a rock for far too long its time to see what I can from this pool of knowledge. In particular APQP.
I have no gripes, peeves or annoyances with anyone or anything but the clock on the wall.
As for changing things, well I'll sit here and read the map for a while, before I choose the route.

Not so quick after all.

Mark

Welcome! to each of you! It's slow here on the weekends, but things pick up during the week.

1. Name
Greg Pollock
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Registered Lead Auditor - Quality Systems and part time Quality Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Currently in Transport and Logistics
Have worked in similar roles in Food, Rubber, Auto Manufacture, Auto Parts Manufacture, Rail Telemetry/Software Development/Rail Infrustructure, Heavy Engineering including pressure vessel manufacture, Justice and Education
4. Company you work for and location
Certification Body is QMS Certification Services located in Australia, Transport and Logistics Co, is International Freight Consolidators also located in Melbourne, Australia
5. Length of time in quality function
30 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I coach NCAA Rules American Football
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Use of good techniques with catchy new names making money for a few and turning the manufacturing world against the techneque when it is not followed up or a new catchy name comes along.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Include it in all schools at all levels as an everyday staple of learning for life

Good to be here

Greg

1. Name
My name is Maxwell D May
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
I am now in the Quality Assurance Dept. as a Quality Assurance Engineer.
3. Industry you're in or have been in
My company covers the products such as AL-Mg windows and door ,also it produces plastical moulds and plastical parts .
4. Company you work for and location
I am from China and my company is in a very beautiful city- Suzhou ,which is very famous in China for its silk and tea, if some of you could come to Suzhou ,you will see its modern beauty.
5. Length of time in quality function
less than a year.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
?
7. Your pet peeve in quality
I hate those people who intend to know the Quality System while they are real fools.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make every piece of Quality title fixed the management system.

I am Vinayak B., final year Postgraduate student in Construction Technology studying at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore,INDIA.

I am working in a related arena for my dissertation, the topic being "Overall Equipment Effectiveness".

It would be grateful if you can provide me with much more information and references on the above mentioned topic.

Awaiting a positive response.

Earnestly,
Vinayak B.

I am Vinayak B., final year Postgraduate student in Construction Technology studying at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore,INDIA.

I am working in a related arena for my dissertation, the topic being "Overall Equipment Effectiveness".

It would be grateful if you can provide me with much more information and references on the above mentioned topic.

Awaiting a positive response.

Earnestly,
Vinayak B.

Welcome to the Cove, Vinayak :bigwave:

"Overall Equipment Effectiveness" covers a lot of potential subject matter, so it's hard to give you any specific direction. Try the Cove's search function for general information, and feel free to post any specific questions you might have in the forums.

Welcome to all you new folks!:bigwave:

I hope you will find

the knowledge you seek
the solace you need when times get tough
the stage and audience you need when you have wisdom to impartHere at the Cove, some of us get all three on the same day!:)

1. Name - Vijay anand.t.r.

2. Title - Supplier Quality ( SQE ) - - - Analyst

3. Industry - Mechanical - - Quality

4. Location - Banglore - India

5. Length - - 6 years

6. Personnel - - Indian music

7. Customer Satisfaction

8. “Everyone” would be made accountable for their functions and their effect on the Quality System

I am Vinayak B., final year Postgraduate student in Construction Technology studying at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore,INDIA.

I am working in a related arena for my dissertation, the topic being "Overall Equipment Effectiveness".

It would be grateful if you can provide me with much more information and references on the above mentioned topic.

Awaiting a positive response.

Earnestly,
Vinayak B.

vinayak the OEE is a wast subject ,i can just give a simple equation to get the OEE
machine utilisation X human power utilisation X rejection rate =OEE
for the each shift

it is the simple definition for the OEE
you can put more information to it to get good result

:D
Actual Position Quality Engineer In a Musical Company in Ensenada, Mexico.
And consultant on GD T courses.
My experience is in stamping, machining, foundry and some plastic processes from the automotive Industry were I work around 25 years in Quality and Manufacturing.
I have been in different positions including Quality Manager a few times.
Mechanical Engineer and Statistics, background.
I like to work in my Audi 90, ride the bicycle with my son and wife and play bowl when I have a chance.
Nice mine of knowledge you have here at the Cove.

:D
Actual Position Quality Engineer In a Musical Company in Ensenada, Mexico.
And consultant on GD T courses.
My experience is in stamping, machining, foundry and some plastic processes from the automotive Industry were I work around 25 years in Quality and Manufacturing.
I have been in different positions including Quality Manager a few times.
Mechanical Engineer and Statistics, background.
I like to work in my Audi 90, ride the bicycle with my son and wife and play bowl when I have a chance.
Nice mine of knowledge you have here at the Cove.

Welcome to the Cove, Vicman!:bigwave:

Name: Ken Laffan
Job Title: Six Sigma Black Belt
Industry: Fire & Security services via Electronics, Medical Device & Beer Sales!
Company: Tyco Safety Products, Cork, Ireland
Length of time in quality function: 15 Years
Something personal: believe in quantity & quality!!
Pet peeve: quality issues are the responsibilty of a single department...
If you could change the world of quality: blur the lines of responsibility...

1. My name is Chris Scholl.
2. I'm a full-time Quality Coordinator (ISO 13485:2003), part-time QMS Consultant (ISO 9001:2000, ISO 13485:2003) & 2nd-yr president of local ASQ.
3. I have 5yrs HBA (health/beauty aids) & 7yrs medical device ophthalmic/ENT experience.
4. I work for Clarity Corporation- Memphis, TN.
5. 12yrs in quality function
6. Something personal that sets me apart is my zen-like attitude.
7. My pet peeve in quality is the denial that quality is a company-wide function, NOT just the quality dept. :frust:
8. If I could change the world of quality I would encourage more people/organizations/industries into the quality community.

:thanks:

1. My name is Chris Scholl.
2. I'm a full-time Quality Coordinator (ISO 13485:2003), part-time QMS Consultant (ISO 9001:2000, ISO 13485:2003) & 2nd-yr president of local ASQ.
3. I have 5yrs HBA (health/beauty aids) & 7yrs medical device ophthalmic/ENT experience.
4. I work for Clarity Corporation- Memphis, TN.
5. 12yrs in quality function
6. Something personal that sets me apart is my zen-like attitude.
7. My pet peeve in quality is the denial that quality is a company-wide function, NOT just the quality dept. :frust:
8. If I could change the world of quality I would encourage more people/organizations/industries into the quality community.

:thanks:

Welcome to the Cove, Chris :bigwave:
Jump right in!

:) Hi All,

Lemme introduce my self:

1. My name is Sheshadri.N.N.
2. I'm a SQA Analyst
3. I have 4yrs of experience in Automobile & Aerospace Industry(put together)
4. I work for INDIA
5. Quality people are meant for Follow Ups---Thats what companies say
need to change this

"A RULE IS A RULE EVEN FOR A FOOL"
everyone need to understand this in the organisations & work..........

Sheshadri.N.N(pls call me as shesha)

Namaste Shesha, and Welcome to the Cove:bigwave:

Namaste Shesha, and Welcome to the Cove:bigwave:

:)
Thanks

Shesha

:D

My name is Rhonda Leddy
I am in the quallity department for Anixter Fasteners.
I have been in quality for over 25 years , mostly in automotive, from inspection to Quality Manager.
What sets me apart from everyone? good question . Maybe being a natural redhead???
My pet peeve , well like most everyone else, I hate it when we in the quality department are noted to be babysitters for everyone else where is comes to quality. It is EVERYONES RESPONSIBILITY!!! not just quality.:agree1:
If I could change the world of quality... just make it right the first time and we will all get along...I don't like the phrase ... "will it work anyways???"

:D

My name is Rhonda Leddy
I am in the quallity department for Anixter Fasteners.
I have been in quality for over 25 years , mostly in automotive, from inspection to Quality Manager.
What sets me apart from everyone? good question . Maybe being a natural redhead???
My pet peeve , well like most everyone else, I hate it when we in the quality department are noted to be babysitters for everyone else where is comes to quality. It is EVERYONES RESPONSIBILITY!!! not just quality.:agree1:
If I could change the world of quality... just make it right the first time and we will all get along...I don't like the phrase ... "will it work anyways???"
Hey Rhonda, welcome to another SC person and to the "Cove", hope you enjoy the forums. Another phrase we hear "Is this good enough?"

1. Name = Alex S.
2. Position = Tech. Proj. Mgr. with 17 years or so of software dev experience in fingerprint ID, telecom, process optimization, and aerospace industries.
3. QA/QC experience = 5 years working directly in QA and QC and the rest has been indirectly working in software quality areas, e.g. as a Proj. Mgr.
4. Differentiated By = at the gym every morning by 5:30am, prevents back issues from occuring. ;)
5. Education = BS in Comp. Info. System.
* I'm replying to this because I found it interesting to see what backgrounds other people have on this forum.

I don't like the phrase ... "will it work anyways???"
Yup - It's amazing how many people will say that...

:D
If I could change the world of quality... just make it right the first time and we will all get along...I don't like the phrase ... "will it work anyways???"

Fella I worked with years ago turned me on to his favorite Mil standard -
MIL-TFD-41 It stands for "Make It Like The Flippin Drawing For Once".:frust:

I've actually thought of framing it.

James

Hi I've been lurking for a while, but I thought I should introduce myself

1. My name is Sarah Shea
2. I'm a Supplier Quality Engineer
3. Telecommunications Industry
4. Motorola in Florida
5. 7 yrs in quality function
6. Just being female and a Mechanical Engineer is enough to set me apart from most.
7. My pet peeve is stereotyping or judging people based on outward characteristics
8. If I could change the world of quality I would want people to know that quality isn’t about policing but improvement.

1. Name
Cheryl Tague

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
I manage the Field QA/QC department for a Construction and Engineering Company. Trained ISO 9000 auditor.

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Refinery, Petrochemical, Pulp and Paper, Power

4. Company you work for and location
S & B Engineers & Constructors, Houston, Texas

5. Length of time in quality function
15+ years

6. Something personal that sets you apart
Let's see, I can read....no...that's not it....

7. Your pet peeve in quality
The idea that quality has to be taught. Skill have to be taught, not quality. If I set a ball on my kitchen floor and it rolls to other end of the kitchen because it is so unlevel, then I know I didn't get a quality job. If I buy a car and dies in a week, I didn't get quality. If the new blouse I buy falls apart at the first washing then I didn't get quality. We all recognize quality. Most people just don't care.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do
I would get rid of all of the gimmicks, ISO, Deming, Sigma, etc, and just make people accountable for their work. If the don't put out a quality project then they don't need to work for my company.

Welcome Sarah and Cheryl :bigwave:

Yes! Welcome to all the new folks!:bigwave:

Some of your answers are intriguing, maybe even surprising. I'm looking forward to reading your future posts.

1. Name
Bryon Ater

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Owner

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Aviation, Automotive, medical, mining, We provide compressive stress to substrate metal. We are a shot peening shop which gets confussed with abrasive blasting. We can also due that process as well. Shot peening is a controlled procsess wereas abrasive blasting is some what.

4. Company you work for and location
BG&S Peening and Consulting Beaver falls Pa.

5. Length of time in quality function
12+ years

6. Something personal that sets you apart
not sure I have any thing personal that sets me apart from the rest of you.

7. Your pet peeve in quality
I agree with most of you that ops. need to get with quality, quality needs also to work with ops. This is not two different paths being traveled, all in the same! We are headed for the same end product!

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do
I don't know it seems to answer this question would start another version of ISO

1. Name
Bryon Ater

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Owner

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Aviation, Automotive, medical, mining, We provide compressive stress to substrate metal. We are a shot peening shop which gets confussed with abrasive blasting. We can also due that process as well. Shot peening is a controlled procsess wereas abrasive blasting is some what.

4. Company you work for and location
BG&S Peening and Consulting Beaver falls Pa.

5. Length of time in quality function
12+ years

6. Something personal that sets you apart
not sure I have any thing personal that sets me apart from the rest of you.

7. Your pet peeve in quality
I agree with most of you that ops. need to get with quality, quality needs also to work with ops. This is not two different paths being traveled, all in the same! We are headed for the same end product!

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do
I don't know it seems to answer this question would start another version of ISO

Welcome,
It's great to see a business owner in the forums.
Hope you'll jump in with lots of insight from your side of the desk.

James

James,

I wasn't always an owner. Started at the bottom and started up the ladder. Then got canned and started this company. I also work in and out of unions so I can help a few in their problems. The one problem I am having is developing this AS9003 to go with my Repair station certificate. It's tuff when your a one arm paper hanger at the moment.

But glad to have all that has answered

Bryon

Welcome all, :bigwave:

I know that we are a lot of people here, but all those various backgrounds of the Cove dwellers never seizes to amaze me.

I wasn't always an owner. Started at the bottom and started up the ladder. Which probably means that you can see things from different perspectives. Good on you, mate.

:agree1: on seeing from a different perspective, Most of the time it's very helpful and sometimes makes it difficult to make the decission. But it makes a good relationship with the employees,

1. Name

Gavin Beath

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

Quality/Food Safety auditor

3. Industry you're in or have been in

Education, auditing

4. Company you work for and location

Ecore Audit Japan

5. Length of time in quality function

6 months

6. Something personal that sets you apart

I am an alien :eek:

7. Your pet peeve in quality

Managers who see quality as merely a marketing tool.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

Change the focus of corporations from short-term profit focus to satisfy investors to long-term quality based focus to benefits all stakeholders. Is this a dream? :tg:

1. Name

Sam Cheong

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

Assistant engineer in QA/QC department

3. Industry you're in or have been in

Semiconductors

4. Company you work for and location

A subsidiary of Japan MNC, in Shah Alam Malaysia.

5. Length of time in quality function

3.5 years

6. Something personal that sets you apart

I cannot figure out.

7. Your pet peeve in quality

Quality issue is belong to the Quality department alone.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

The word 'quality' should be totally changed to a new word.

1. Name

Lou

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

Internal auditor and trainee Quality Engineer

3. Industry you're in or have been in

Construction industry

4. Company you work for and location

Central London, United Kingdom

5. Length of time in quality function

2 years

6. Something personal that sets you apart

Have a B.A. (Honours) in Literature and History. Previously a secretary. Chief hobby creative writing. Am doing the Institute of Quality Assurance's Diploma in Quality Assurance as part of my promotion.

7. Your pet peeve in quality

Some colleagues seem to regard us as some kind of police force and want to use us as such. To me Quality is a value adding activity. It shouldn't be seen as a world apart negatively monitoring people.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

Stop the blind hero worshipping that goes in the world of management guru cults.

Welcome to the Cove DiplomaGirl

Good luck in learning the Quality Function and don't get frustrated with the issues.

Welcome to the Cove DiplomaGirl

Good luck in learning the Quality Function and don't get frustrated with the issues.


Coury Ferguson
Program/Contracts Manager

Thanks for your lovely welcome! I'm already getting frustrated with some of those difficult mathematical equations, eg spc type stuff. I haven't done maths for 20 years! Still it's an interesting learning curve for a born again student of 36!

:agree1: Helo Sam and Gavin I want to welcome you aboard as everyone has or so do so. You will see that there are a lot of options thrown around for you to decide on and that is why quality today still remains to be an issue of concern. Just as deciding to produce a product in such a manner also.

I'm already getting frustrated with some of those difficult mathematical equations, eg spc type stuff. I haven't done maths for 20 years! Still it's an interesting learning curve for a born again student of 36!


As for the mathematical stuff, there are some experts in that field here in the Cove, that can probably help you if you need it.

Remember, don't let Quality get you frustrated, there are people here (with a lot of years experience in the quality realm) in the cove that will help you through some of your learning curve.


Coury Ferguson
Program/Contracts Manager

Name : Simon J Lewis

Currently working in :
India, Czech Republic , South Africa , France , Later in the year Houston America.

Role: Implement lean and to change mind sets to "change".:bonk:

Currently working for the same company for the past 29 years, 15 years shop floor, 3 years works manager, 11 years lean.

Pet Hate:Senior management expecting "sustainablity" after one activity !!.

Future: To work and live in America (st pauls) anyone got any ideas !!!.

Greetings All - Good site

1. Name: David

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:Consultant for CMMS, BI, Cost Saving Initiatives

3. Industry you're in or have been in: Dairy, Mech & Elec Services, Pharma Biotech

4. Company you work for and location:Ireland

5. Length of time in quality function:Indirect for 10 Yrs

6. Something personal that sets you apart: I was fulltime Daytrading for 1 year :caution:

7. Your pet peeve in quality::nope:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?:Get senior management to implement activity-based costing for QA departments:argue:

As for the mathematical stuff, there are some experts in that field here in the Cove, that can probably help you if you need it.

Remember, don't let Quality get you frustrated, there are people here (with a lot of years experience in the quality realm) in the cove that will help you through some of your learning curve.


Coury Ferguson
Program/Contracts Manager

Thank you, everyone here is very welcoming.

Name: Koon Wai Chin
Job Title: Consultant
Industry: Consultancy
Company: GRS at Malaysia
Time: 5 years

1. Name
Jamie Dederick

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Engineer Technician II (degree) though my main job description deals with automated testing procedures and support of the operation (writing code, debugging, general support to production line)

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Communications - Educational sound amplification (schools) and professional audio equipment

4. Company you work for and location
LightSPEED Technologies in Tualatin, Oregon

5. Length of time in quality function
Three years in quality function

6. Something personal that sets you apart
Oregon Fisher (Salmon and Steelhead)

7. Your pet peeve in quality
The belief that no one person can change quality when in fact that is where quality starts. And rushing to market with a new product before it is completely tested AARGH!

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
As I deal alot with overseas vendors I constantly run into quality concerns and I wish quality had a more universal meaning.

New member introduction, Hi there everbody
1. Andrew Ballard
2. Owner, head salesman, chief mechanic, etc. etc.
3. Air & gas compressor sales and service
4. Precision Pneumatics Inc. Freeport, TX
5. Zero
6. I don't have a clue where to start on the ISO certification

I am sure there is a step by step list somewhere that will tell me how to get 9001 certification but everything I've found so far assumes I know a whole lot about quality management already. My company has been asked to get certified by two very large potential customers, but our total size is 3 employees and we've been in business all of 5 months. I know I can throw money at this and get someone else to do it but I would like to find the least expensive route keeping in mind I have a **** of a lot of other things to do. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks AndrewB

New member introduction, Hi there everbody
1. Andrew Ballard
2. Owner, head salesman, chief mechanic, etc. etc.
3. Air & gas compressor sales and service
4. Precision Pneumatics Inc. Freeport, TX
5. Zero
6. I don't have a clue where to start on the ISO certification

I am sure there is a step by step list somewhere that will tell me how to get 9001 certification but everything I've found so far assumes I know a whole lot about quality management already. My company has been asked to get certified by two very large potential customers, but our total size is 3 employees and we've been in business all of 5 months. I know I can throw money at this and get someone else to do it but I would like to find the least expensive route keeping in mind I have a **** of a lot of other things to do. Any suggestions would be helpful.

Thanks AndrewB

You've definitely come to the right place. The folks here are the best!! Bar None!!
I checked out your profile and see that you are indeed a small business. With such a small business may I ask why you are interested in ISO certification?

James

I have a big customer asking for it. They make military equipment and could be an excellent account. I have other customers in the petro-chemical industry that would look favorably on it as well.

Pleased to meet all these people willing to learn

1. My name is Javier Rubio Barragán
2. Higher Industrial Engineer (7 years ) Europe Mechanical, Electrical, Chemestry and Bussiness Engineer.
3. Automotion Industry since 4 years
4. Oetiker Spain a Swiss multinational of Automotion Sector located in Cadiz, Spain, Europe
5. 3 years in Planning & Logistics as MP&L Engineer at Visteon and PC&L Engineer in Delphi Saginaw. A beginner in the Quality Arena but I am enjoying a lot learning this discipline.
6. My famiy, IT.
8. If I could change the world of quality, I would REQUIRE more passion and talent.

My degree is in Higher Industial Engineer and Master in risk Prevention Security, Higiniest, Ergonomics, Quality Learner.
But the process of learning could take us more than one life...
In the meantime we would enjoy.

Andrew, I don't want to get too far off topic in this thread, but you likely have a lot of the things you need already in place. If/when you have a question, use the search function here at the Cove - chances are very good that someone else has once asked the same question. If a search does not give you what you need, then you can post a thread or send a PM to someone who appears to know the area you have a question about.

You most definitely are in the right place, and I like your approach. Its going to be your system. Who better to design it?

Oh, yeah, and welcome!!!

I have a big customer asking for it. They make military equipment and could be an excellent account. I have other customers in the petro-chemical industry that would look favorably on it as well.

I'll just echo Craig and say that I don't believe you'll be disappointed with this crew.

James

:bigwave: James, I am not sure I am the one you were responding to. But I will answer just encase I was. This Is Bryon From BG&S Peening and Consulting. I have been in the aviation industry for over 30 years. We are an FAA approved repair station in shot peening. I am trying to break into government contracting and do work for the primes. This is why I am pursue an ISO.

Bryon

Andrew, First I want to welcome you aboard like everyone else has and then I am going to answer a question or present a question. if I am the person you were referring to about your big customer and they manufacture military equipment and looking for people like me, then there is a way you an I can get intouch with each other, but I am not sure how that was. You can go to my website (the link is in my Profile) and get the information.

Or have your customer/friend go there to get intouch with me.

But don't get inpatient in doing this ISO. It takes time and your company size seems to a little bigger then my company.

Bryon

Just to remind folks, do please take a minute and let us know where in the world you are from! Go to the Elsmar Cove Frapper Page (http://www.frappr.com/elsmarcove) and Add Yourself!

We have a lot of people coming here from Asia, China and - Well, from all over. Let us know where you live! It only takes a minute and you can even upload a picture if you want.

Thanks!

1. Name

Jason Keane

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

Plant Superintendent

3. Industry you're in or have been in

Packaging

4. Company you work for and location

Butcher Engineering Enterprises Ltd Windsor Ontario

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

Less paperwork!!!!!


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Hello All, Just wanted to say hello to all.
My Name is Bernie and I am the Compliance Manager for 2 Landfills, 2 Stone Quarries and a variety of other companies.

My experience started in the 80's with environmental remediation throughout the East Coast. From there i advanced through several other companies and projects. I have developed and maintained ISO 14001 for our landfills and quarries and we were the first to be certified in the United States.

I have helped a number of other companies and am available to assist others in development, auditing and compliance. I hope to learn from all of you here and appreciate your input and discussion.

Hello All, Just wanted to say hello to all.
My Name is Bernie and I am the Compliance Manager for 2 Landfills, 2 Stone Quarries and a variety of other companies.

My experience started in the 80's with environmental remediation throughout the East Coast. From there i advanced through several other companies and projects. I have developed and maintained ISO 14001 for our landfills and quarries and we were the first to be certified in the United States.

I have helped a number of other companies and am available to assist others in development, auditing and compliance. I hope to learn from all of you here and appreciate your input and discussion.

Welcome to the Cove, Bernie :bigwave:

Feel free to jump right in!

Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:
The great Arch Ward, sports columnist for the Chicago Tribune, had a column entitled In the Wake of the News, which depended on readers to post questions about sports events which Arch would then wax eloquent about. At the top of every column ran the catchphrase:
"The Wake depends upon its friends. Help! Help!"

So, too, the Cove depends upon its friends. Help! Help!
:thanx:

Thanks for giving me welcome.
1. my name is Pralhad Pai. Indian, staying in Mumbai. Working in a certification body, giving certifications for ISO 9001, ISO14001, OHSAS 18001 etc., as Sr. manager (Corporate). Looking after certification activities and also as Lead Auditor
2. I am Quality professional with almost 32 years of experience.
3. I am lead Auditor for ISO 9001 and ISO 14001
4. Iam qualified Metallurgical engineer from I.I.T. Mumbai and did my masters in Business Administration.

I have a passion for ISO 9001 & 14001 and want to learn as much as possible from all of you and also can share my knowledge and experience with you all.

Thanks once again and looking forward to good interaction.
Pralhad Pai

Just a hello to all who come to hear to learn as I hope to learn from all of you.
I am a Director of sourcing for an automotive aftermarket company based in Illinois USA.
I have come here to find out as much info I can on PPAP and how to read the information.
We will be in the process of transferring tooling of some of our products overseas and this will be critical for the transition as well as NDA's.
So I hope to talk to some of you once in a while and will check back often.

:thanks: :bigwave:

The Excellence is hard, so, if you had done a good thing and it was easy doubt with it
1. Name: Tarek Mahmoud Ahmed
2. Job Title: Business Mentor - QAM - Lecturer - Examiner - Advisor
3. Industry: Automotive - Manufacturing - Consultant - Engineering
4. Company: A wide of companies
5. Length of time in quality function: 23 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: un-credibility
7. Your pet peeve in quality: un-understood
8. If you could change the world of quality, I would like to reach win-win


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1. Name: Niña (nin-ya)
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Quality Management Representative
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Crew Manning (we supply seafarers)
4. Company you work for and location: a manning agency in the Philippines
5. Length of time in quality function: every time an external audit is pending since year 2004
6. Something personal that sets you apart: i used to be young... i'm now 25 years old!
7. Your pet peeve in quality: where is it? everything changes so quickly in my world... i feel like i'm just in a document marathon... there's a long and winding road ahead...
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? i am still in the process of understanding it:bonk:

My name is John Johnson and I'm the Quality Manager at Jamestown Electro Plating.
I've been the Quality Manager at JEP since 1995 and mainly responsible for the quality systems at JEP.
Our company is ISO 9001:2000 & 14001 certified. We are also Nadcap Accredited.
My pet peeve about Quality Systems are that Production people do not believe in the systems primarily because of lack of support by upper management.

1. Mike Kundinger
2. Student Mechanical Engineer at Kettering University working on Thesis Project: Implementation of ISO 9001:2000 to APS. Expected Graduation date June 10, 2006
3. Manufacturer of Emission testing equipment, automotive and industrial
4. Analytical Process Systems, Auburn Hills, Michigan
5. 3/4 year
6. Nickname is Dinger. I will be backpacking New Zealand for 4 weeks in April.
7. Too much Paperwork
8. Don't know at this time.

Just wanted to say that I wish I had found this about 6 months ago. There is a lot of good information on here. Thanks.

Guys

Just a few lines..
I am Works Engineering Manager for a concrete manufacturing company in the UK - dont think builders yard - think mass production & robots....

My background is in manufacturing (wide variety - electronics components, timber, automotive components (tier 1), machine tools & now concrete

I am apprentice trained in mechanical engineering, marine engineering & have a BSc degree in technology from the Open University + a diploma in design & Innovation.

Currently studying to make my degree into an Hons & geta diploma in systems.

I have an avid interest in all things problematical (keeps me in a job) & especially quality, reduction in variation, SPC, problem solving etc.

I have studied quality systems Taguchi, Shainin, Bhote, Deming, at a professional level & have been involved in TS16949 - especially the maintenance engineering section..

What I came looking for was the detail of the ILUO method of scoring training...a bit of help needed

Thanks Guys

Welcome to the Cove, Bruce:bigwave:

I am Works Engineering Manager for a concrete manufacturing company in the UK - dont think builders yard - think mass production & robots....

You make concrete robots? I'd like to see one of those. :lol:

I have an avid interest in all things problematical

You'll like it here, then.:agree1:

What I came looking for was the detail of the ILUO method of scoring training...a bit of help needed


I don't know what "ILUO" is, but you should start a new thread and we'll see who does.

Thanks Jim
Actually foung a copy of the original matrix I saw some time ago in another company - we havent quite perfected the concrete robot we have to make do with metal.
have a good day
Bruce

Hi,
My name is Jackie and I have a long history in GMPs.
Unfortunately, I am currently unemployed.
The FDA is moving towards administration of Quality Systems within GMPs. I want to understand Quality Systems so well that I could start with a new product and set up the Quality Systems from scratch. I'm hoping to learn what works and what is difficult by reading forum threads.

Welcome!

In addition to following current threads access the archieves, they are chalk full of the type of info you need!

Al...

Hi,
My name is Jackie and I have a long history in GMPs.
Unfortunately, I am currently unemployed.
The FDA is moving towards administration of Quality Systems within GMPs. I want to understand Quality Systems so well that I could start with a new product and set up the Quality Systems from scratch. I'm hoping to learn what works and what is difficult by reading forum threads.


Welcome Jackie. Here in the Cove there are many of us that have started from scratch building QMS's you will have no problem learning.

PS: How is CA and where in Southern CA are you located? I am originally (born, raised and lived there for over 30 years) from Southern CA (Orange County)

Welcome, Jackie! :bigwave: You may find some help in your job hunt in these two threads:

Resume and cover letter - How good are yours? (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=10169)
Tips to get past the "gatekeeper" when job hunting (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=9325)

Coury: Don't worry! I'm sure we'd get news if an earthquake broke California off the mainland, creating new coastal property somewhere in the San Joaquin Valley!

Welcome Jackie. Here in the Cove there are many of us that have started from scratch building QMS's you will have no problem learning.


Coury Ferguson
Program/Contracts Manager

PS: How is CA and where in Southern CA are you located? I am originally (born, raised and lived there for over 30 years) from Southern CA (Orange County)

I am currently in Lake Forest, part of Irvine. I have managed to get unemployed and away from my home all at once. I love quality and found this forum. I am hoping all you smart guys can educate me in Medical Device Quality Systems because the FDA is now mandating them for pharmaceuticals.

Thanks for writing back. This is my first experience with a forum and I am so glad to find someone out there.

Welcome, Jackie! :bigwave: You may find some help in your job hunt in these two threads:

Resume and cover letter - How good are yours? (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=10169)
Tips to get past the "gatekeeper" when job hunting (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=9325)

Coury: Don't worry! I'm sure we'd get news if an earthquake broke California off the mainland, creating new coastal property somewhere in the San Joaquin Valley!


Thanks for the response. I will access the links. I remember when job hunting was buying newspapers and waiting breathlessly for C&E News every week. I love computers.

OK, I'll take a few minutes to say "hello" to anyone who may happen by and be viewing this thread....

1. Name - My "real" name is Steve McQuay. I just couldn't resist making my "screen name" Steve McQua'lit'y - seems a little hokey, but it seemed like a good idea at the time!:lol:

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - I'm currently a Quality Engineer for a Medical Device Manufacturer. My first project is revamping our vendor quality/evaluation program and developing a product reliability matrix...which is what brought me here to "the Cove"...:bigwave:

3. Industry you're in or have been in - Gee, I started as a Quality Engineer for an independent window/curtain wall test facility, moved to Quality Engineer for a Cable Company (both in York, PA) then moved into Ultrasound where I've been a Quality Engineer, Manufacturing Engineer, Design Engineer and now I've come back to the "Quality Fold". I think wearing all these hats gives me a unique appreciation of where Quality fits in to the whole scheme of things!

4. Company you work for and location - I'm current working for Sound Technology, a Medical Device Manufacturer in Pennsylvania - State College, PA to be exact.

5. Length of time in quality function - as mentioned above, I've had a "varied" engineering career to say the least. Total years in Quality has been about 5 + 1 month!;)

6. Something personal that sets you apart - I guess the professional thing that sets me apart is the various hats I've worn. The personal thing that sets me apart, to any PSU alumni that may happen by and read this, is the fact that I am in the Phyrst Phamly - a 38yr. old "sing-along" band in an Irish Pub, called "The Phyrst" of course, here at Penn State!:nopity:

7. Your pet peeve in quality - The quality professionals that "police" quality :whip: as opposed to "championing" quality to get other people to buy in to the whole phylosophy!:frust:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - :magic: I'd change the way people view the "QA Guys" and change the way Quality is implemented. I mean really, we're just here as the coaches on the Quality Team which ideally involves the entire company. It's up to everyone to participate and pull the whole system together. I've always viewed my role in Quality Engineering as the "Service Industry" part of the Manufacturing Industry.:agree1:

I guess that's me in a "nut" shell - no pun intended, really!:biglaugh:

...Sorry about all the "emoticons", but I've never used them before and it looked like fun!!:D I try not to be the stereotypical "engineer"...

-Steve

Hi, Steve! And Welcome!

I am new too. I love Irish music, quality, chemistry and art, not necessarily in that order.
What has been your greatest challenge in quality? Do you have experience in 6 Sigma?

Hi Jackie!:) I see we have the "West Coast/East Coast" time disconnect here...

I'm new to this whole "forum & discussion" thing too.
...My greatest challenge in Quality, Hmmm... At this point, it's getting back up to speed. I guess really though, the first company I worked for didn't have a quality department so the biggest challenge there was just starting the entire program from scratch - and right out of college too! Second company was going from no certification to ISO 9001 so it was upgrading an entire quality system from minimal coverage to a certifiable system. (both were successful!) Currently, it's taking a portion of our quality system - specifically vendor certification - and making it something useful that doesn't just contribute to "overhead" but actually creates data that is useful to Purchasing, Engineering, etc. I'm trying to create a good vendor survey and feedback loop that is simple (we're a small company) but generates useful data - that's why I joined "The Cove" to see if I could find help here!

6-Sigma experience - yep, I've had that too. I was a Certified Shanin Statistical Engineer and when I was with GE (design portion of my engineering and Ultrasound experience), I went through the 6-Sigma Green Belt training program. The two systems are similar and are both great for putting stastical significance into the old "SWAG" system of problem solving.

...and glad to hear you like Irish Music - tomorrow's our "big day" for singing all those Irish Tunes!:D It gives me a good excuse to leave work early!

Hi Jackie!:) I see we have the "West Coast/East Coast" time disconnect here...

I'm new to this whole "forum & discussion" thing too.
...My greatest challenge in Quality, Hmmm... At this point, it's getting back up to speed. I guess really though, the first company I worked for didn't have a quality department so the biggest challenge there was just starting the entire program from scratch - and right out of college too! Second company was going from no certification to ISO 9001 so it was upgrading an entire quality system from minimal coverage to a certifiable system. (both were successful!) Currently, it's taking a portion of our quality system - specifically vendor certification - and making it something useful that doesn't just contribute to "overhead" but actually creates data that is useful to Purchasing, Engineering, etc. I'm trying to create a good vendor survey and feedback loop that is simple (we're a small company) but generates useful data - that's why I joined "The Cove" to see if I could find help here!

6-Sigma experience - yep, I've had that too. I was a Certified Shanin Statistical Engineer and when I was with GE (design portion of my engineering and Ultrasound experience), I went through the 6-Sigma Green Belt training program. The two systems are similar and are both great for putting stastical significance into the old "SWAG" system of problem solving.

...and glad to hear you like Irish Music - tomorrow's our "big day" for singing all those Irish Tunes!:D It gives me a good excuse to leave work early!

Welcome to the Cove, Steve:bigwave:
Jump right in!

Well, I started at this site looking for a good powerpoint presentation to use for training and found all kinds of neet topics. I will surely never get anything done now that I have so much to read. OK here is my backround...

1. Gordon Smith
2. RA/QA Manager
3. In QA since 1982 and in medical devices since 1989
4. NAI Tech Products is where I am now
5. Length of time in quality function = 24 years
6. I like to makeitsimple (hense my ID :lmao: )
7. I would say my pet peeve in quality is procedures longer than 7 pages
8. I would want all state universities to offer a B.A. or B.S. in Quality Assurance

Marc, thanks for an awsome form and BTW, I like the last name :applause:

Hello, I just tripped over your forum looking for ways to identify and document Continual Improvement better than we are now doing.

1. Risa
2. Been in the same company 18 years the last 3 in Quality
3. Manufacturer, T1 supplier to the Heavy Truck Automotive Industry
4. We are going for TS Audit in June.
5. 18 years 3 of them officially in the QA Department
6. I like my job, and the company I work for, believe it or not.
7. The lack of understanding of what a Quality System actually means to everyone in the company not just the QA staff
8. I think there is a lot of over analyzing and spending too much time on stuff that can be kept simple. The most efficient way to improve is common sense and responsibility.

1. Robyn Wiemer

2. My official title is Controller, but I actually do anything that anyone else doesn't do. This includes working with Accounting, IT, Quality, Operations, etc.

3. I am currently working in a Paper Mill but have worked in the Dairy Industry and Highway Construction
4. Mule Hide Manufacturing in Northern Wisconsin
5. Not currently in the quality function but work closely with them.
6. Currently hold Green Belt Six Sigma and will be training for my Black Belt later this year. Our company is following the concept of Six Sigma and Lean as part of everyones job. It is definately proving itself.
7. If it doesn't meet spec, don't ship it, it makes more work for everyone along the way.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

1. Robyn Wiemer

2. My official title is Controller, but I actually do anything that anyone else doesn't do. This includes working with Accounting, IT, Quality, Operations, etc.

3. I am currently working in a Paper Mill but have worked in the Dairy Industry and Highway Construction
4. Mule Hide Manufacturing in Northern Wisconsin
5. Not currently in the quality function but work closely with them.
6. Currently hold Green Belt Six Sigma and will be training for my Black Belt later this year. Our company is following the concept of Six Sigma and Lean as part of everyones job. It is definately proving itself.
7. If it doesn't meet spec, don't ship it, it makes more work for everyone along the way.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?



Welcome to the Cove Robyn.

Coury Ferguson

1. Name : yingqi yang .from china
2. supplier quality assure ,responsible supplier quality
3. motor field .

4. bosch automotive part (changsha) company ,changsha ,hu nan province ,china
5. four years at quality field

6. start as quality engineer at american company responsible for the project quality get quality knowledge
7. have some quality knowledge but need improve for it
8. learning good quality knowledge and introduce the knowledge to chinese guy

welcome to china

1. Name : yingqi yang .from china
2. supplier quality assure ,responsible supplier quality
3. motor field .

4. bosch automotive part (changsha) company ,changsha ,hu nan province ,china
5. four years at quality field

6. start as quality engineer at american company responsible for the project quality get quality knowledge
7. have some quality knowledge but need improve for it
8. learning good quality knowledge and introduce the knowledge to chinese guy

welcome to china

Ni Hao!:bigwave: Welcome to the Cove Mr. Yang.

Steve McQuality

I am new to this forum.
Ran across this site via "ASK.com" searching for Turtle diagrams.

Heather Wedertz
I'm a Lead Mold Inspector, Internal auditor and now the ISO admin.
Been with the same Tire company for 13 years.
Been in the Mold Shop division for almost 10 years.
Started in the computer room, then went into the Mold Shop running the CNC milling machines, handfinishing molds, and now in Quality dept.
I'm trying to improve our ISO systems. We are ISO 9001 (QMS) certified and we just got our ISO 14001 (EMS) certification. I have recently completed "Lead Auditor" training for QMS and will be taking the "Lead Auditor" training for EMS sometime this year.

Anyway, this is a great site and I have found many valuable postings already!

I am new to this forum.
Ran across this site via "ASK.com" searching for Turtle diagrams.

Heather Wedertz
I'm a Lead Mold Inspector, Internal auditor and now the ISO admin.
Been with the same Tire company for 13 years.
Been in the Mold Shop division for almost 10 years.
Started in the computer room, then went into the Mold Shop running the CNC milling machines, handfinishing molds, and now in Quality dept.
I'm trying to improve our ISO systems. We are ISO 9001 (QMS) certified and we just got our ISO 14001 (EMS) certification. I have recently completed "Lead Auditor" training for QMS and will be taking the "Lead Auditor" training for EMS sometime this year.

Anyway, this is a great site and I have found many valuable postings already!


Welcome to the Cove newISOgirl (AKA: Heather). You should find some interesting things in the Cove and maybe answers.


Coury Ferguson

1. My name is Rehtsille
2. I am a QMR
3. in a crew manning company
4. in the Philippines
5. i was first appointed as QMR last 2004 to prepare for a re-assessment audit, then was re-appointed last year months before our periodical surveillance audit this February.

I am Sriram Ganesan
34 Yrs
Working as MR in a Automotive Rubber Component Manufacturer in Tamilnadu, India
Previously in Production, Planning, Software Testing, QMS Implementation, Business Development
My Pet peeve - nobody thinks that it is their job. All they want to do is to get their things done. :mad:
Would like the the other department guys and gals to work in QMS for atleast 2 yrs and then think about another position.:frust:

Welcome to the Cove, one and all :bigwave:As usual, people from all over the world turn up here. I'm looking forward to your posts. :read:

/Claes

1. My name is Romeo...call me cokyat
2. I am an EMR
3. in an automotive parts manufacturer in Manila
4. for 5 years
5. i was first appointed as EMR last 2004 to establish Environmental Management System in the comapny and to prepare for the ISO14001:2004certification.
6. i have posted several threads already since 2004 and meet several friends from around the world...regards to Randy...salute to you mah friend!!!:bigwave: :agree1:

I am Sriram Ganesan
34 Yrs
Working as MR in a Automotive Rubber Component Manufacturer in Tamilnadu, India
Previously in Production, Planning, Software Testing, QMS Implementation, Business Development
My Pet peeve - nobody thinks that it is their job. All they want to do is to get their things done. :mad:
Would like the the other department guys and gals to work in QMS for atleast 2 yrs and then think about another position.:frust:

First Sriram I would like to welcome you to the forum. Then I want you to think about what you had said, Reason you hit the nail on the head. If everyon took their own pet peeve and look in the mirror and ask yourself, Am I doing the same thing?

As Webster stated your attitude is formed by your surrounding

1. Rudy Barcenas
2. Design Engineer in Whirlpool Mexico
3. Formerly in Scanners and Printers now in Washer Machines
4. Whirlpool de Mexico S.A. de C.V./Monterrey N.L./Mexico
5. 14 years as a Design Engineer, now working on QA and BB candidate
6. My Present company is highly comitted to Quality improvements.
7. We in quality can need to understand causes of variation.
8. Ensure we everyone understands the concept of variation and Robust Design.

1. Joe Luy
2. Supplier Quality Engineer (some say I do nothing):lol:
3. Manufacturing, now hydraulic pumps (industry)
4. Haldex Hydraulics in Rockford (company I currently work for):agree1:
5. 2 years in quality (how long in quality)
6. Can motivate all levels of employees (unique quality):applause:
7. Push for production that comprises quality steps (pet peeve)
8. Make it law!!! (if I could change the quality world):mad:

Welcome to the Cove, everyone!

1. Name:
Raquel Zuñiga

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

Well the name of my position is Product Engineer in a RF Filter Assembly Company however I think my real work is "Failure Reporter".

3. Industry you're in or have been in

I worked in a very small trunking radiocomunication company during 4 years. After that I started working on a RF Filter manufacturing company

4. Company you work for and location

SK SRL, Costa Rica

5. Length of time in quality function

I have been working for this company during 1 1/2 years, and I know now the importance of having at least basic knowledge in most of the systems, standards, math that Quality involves. So I don't know if I'm doing right but I am not a guru like most of you guys I'm starting learning about Quality. I am taking the CQE right now and I need some advice of you in what do you recommend in order to try to make the things right... not only report as I do now.

6. Something personal that sets you apart

I think I'm different from most of the engineers I know(at least here in my country) because I think that... if you want to improve something you first must know about it and for to know about the "things" you must be in the floor where the action is, you must know the people and give them the confidence to say and make things they think can improve.

7. Your pet peeve... in quality

Well I think I have a lot of things to learn before to answer this question, because I'm really a beginner on this.

However I want to say my pet peeve in this job... I want to expand my knowledge... and I want to improve myself and the process where I am involve...but sometimes I think there is no opportunity for a simple "failure reporter" which is trying to improve her knowledge and apply it but works in a terror-field environment...our managers had trouble saying things as they are to our Headquarter...so I guess they think somebody steal our brains...and maybe our mouths. :( :bonk:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

As most of the people who visit this great and very useful site to implement Quality and Statistics as courses since the High School... :applause:

1. My name is Brian Lindsay
2. QA Process/ Product Specialist
3. Plumbing Products Manufacturing
4. Delta Faucet Canada-Division of Masco Canada Ltd. London Ontario Canada
5.24 plus years
6. People person who tries to get along with everyone. Rock the boat when needed.
7. Quality is non-value added so its expendable when times are tough.
8. Still working on this one.

4. Delta Faucet Canada-Division of Masco Canada Ltd. London Ontario Canada

Woo hoo! Yet another member from the 519 area code!

1. Simon Palmer
2. Supplier Quality Engineer
3. Medical Devices
4. LifeScan Scotland, in funnily enough.... Scotland
5. 18 months
6. I've climbed in the alps
7. Non-conformance systems.....
8. I'd ensure that people actually understood the cost of quality

1. Scott Kruger
2. QA Director
3. Manufacturing
4. Generant Company, Butler, NJ
5. about 14 years in various roles
6. I've actually utilized my college degree (BS in IE) throughout my career.
7. Blind worship of Six Sigma certification by recruiters and HR people.
8. I would make the Principia Discordia mandatory reading for every quality professional in the world.

Don't let the user name fool you... I'm only a Discordian on my off hours. I spend my days creating order out of chaos.

As you can see my name is Luis Zamora and I work as a Quality Engineer receiving the PPAPs from new suppliers. I work on a Motors Manufacturing Company on Reynosa México. As I see that of you try to give a long describing, I will try to enlarge my introduction. I have 2 year working on this plant and there is not a guide to approve suppliers even there is nothing to follow theirs performance, so I think that we have a great challenge, so that could be my pet peeve but I have already stopped some projects because they have not met all the basic requirements. Something personal could be the fact that I work on a Company that is not placed where my family live. I do not purport to change the quality's world before I would like to meet people that have the same interests and later to invite others to join us.

Ah, missed out on this one, hello all, I'm new to the cove

1. Martijn Stout
2. Quality Manager Europe
3. Was consultant, now working in chemical industry
4. Drew Industrial (water treatment), European HQ in the Netherlands
5. 6 yrs as consultant, 3 months as QM
6. my passion for Feyenoord (dutch football team)
7. making difficult things easier
8. introduce a 6 word ISO 9001 standard: THINK AND MANAGE YOUR FLIPPING RISKS!

talk to you all later. I'm happy i found new "quality colleagues" i can talk to after leaving my previous company. See you all in the cove!

Welcome to all!!!

Great to have you here!!

I just posted this message in a post I have in another thread, but since a lot of Covers visit this particular thread, I just wanted to say to the "old" Covers and post for the "New" Covers that I have been impressed with the helpfulness of the folks within this web site!!

To whomever reads this THANK YOU!:thanx:

To the new Covers - Do not hesitate to ask questions and ask for help. This is a WONDERFUL forum!:agree1:

....and Welcome to all....
-Steve

Name: Renee Briggs
Job Title: Corporate Quality Manager
Industry: Fabrication and steel stamping
Company: Dowding Industries
Time in Quality: 10.5 years
Personal: Happily married with 4 teenagers (13 - 17)
Pet Peeve: It is always quality's fault
Change: Change the name to show that quality department is there to assist and help. In the days of lean manufacturing, you cannot be overseeing every process and therefore cannot ensure quality. You can only give the operators the tools. The people that make the parts are responsible for the overall quality of the product.

Thanks for this tool!! I also sometimes feel very alone when trying to implement new processes. I have already gotten some ideas from the threads I have read and hope to have some things to post soon to get others advice.

Currently working as SQE and dealing a lot with suppliers related to stamping parts. Just started to involve in PPAP and APQP thus would like to learn more about PPAP and APQP which is the most critical items in automotive world.

Very less experience in APQP elements (PFMEA, Control Plan, 8Ds report, etc)

Wow! Lot of geographic diversity. :bigwave:Welcome to all! We hope we can help you find answers to your questions, but even more, we look forward to you providing answers for others. Andrew Carnegie (NOT Dale Carnegie) had a theory he called the GROUP MIND, where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts. In the past few years, the Cove has certainly evolved into a true Group Mind. Welcome to the Group!

1. Priscilla Petit
2. Configuration Mgt, Doc. Control, Lead Auditor
3. Electronics Manufacturing (DoD contractor)
4. L-3 Communications, Cyterra -Orlando, FL
5. 4 years
6. I'm young, energetic and very driven! :read:
7. Quality Pet Peeve-Those affecting product quality, that don't think quality is their responsibility.
8. If I could change the world of Quality I would configure everyone's brains so that they consistently think of quality and exceeding customer req'ts first and foremost.

Nice to meet you all, and I truly hope to improve my division's Quality system due to my registration here! :thanx:

Wow, its been awhile since I have been here. I am so excited to see all the new members, Welcome! This site has been the absolute greatest help to me. I hope all of you gain as much as I have from the great contributers of the cove. Have a great day! :D

1. Name
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
3. Industry you're in or have been in
4. Company you work for and location
5. Length of time in quality function
6. Something personal that sets you apart
7. Your pet peeve in quality
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

Ray Gravelle
Manager -Quality Assurance
Rail
Ontario Northland Transportation Commission
North Bay Ontario, Canada
Been here 26 yrs, the last 16 in and or running the QA dept.
Love a challenge.....won more than my fair share of QA issues with auditors.
QA driven by upper management.... never has here....
Nothing right now!!

Hi: I'm Carolyn and I love to read, but unfortunately I don't always remeber the book titles; which makes it difficult to find the book again later on. It's good to know that I am not alone in this aspect. I look forward to conversing with everyone. Have a blessed day:D

Olá,

finally I decide to join your forum... but first of all let me thank you for the great help you've being providing me, during the last 2 years!
1. Carlos
2. Quality, Environmental & Safety Techn.
3. Automotive Textile
4. Portugal
5. I began in Enviro issues, get the Safety duties and now I'm focused in Quality
6. I really enjoy what I do!!
7. Why not?
8. I would mix it and shake it and made it again...

See you around!

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could
do only a little.

Also see this old introduction thread: Fresh Coffee - An Introduction (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=5874)

And a big Hello! to everyone new here!

I have joined this forum mainly to improve my knowledge about SPC tools & also to share experiences & opinions about work improvement with worldwide people.
1. Name--Prasad Shivram Shirodkar
2. Job Title --working in new project planning department which include planning & commissioning of new projects.
3. Industry i am in --Automobile
4. Company I work for and location--Maruti udyog LTD india
5. Length of time in quality function--last 7 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart--i think Quality oriented planningis required everywhere. the quality should be considered equivalant to all other parameters in womb itself from the starting of project.
7. Your pet peeve in quality-- people considers quality is only QA's responsibilty while in fact its everybodys(organaisatios) resposibility
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?---i will implement the quality oriented planning of new projects


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prasad

1. Name
As per ID

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
QA & Technical Manager for an Oilfield equipment manufacturer. "Technical" part means all the stuff that the others can't/won't do ends up on my desk

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Started as Fitter/Turner in Aerospace/Nuclear manufacturing then last 10 years in oilfield equipment.(API thinks its rocket science!!!)

4. Company you work for and location
API licenced company in Qatar. Dual registered API Q1 / ISO 9001:2000 with 4 product specification Licences.

5. Length of time in quality function
Since birth??.....was working and partly involved in the 3rd company in the UK to cert certification to BS5750. Last ten years has been develop, implement and maintain a system from scratch in a new company

6. Something personal that sets you apart
I can (and do) apply logic to everything - great for work, but the wife hates it.

7. Your pet peeve(s) in quality
Only one??? Lots to say here!!
Having to write the management inputs / quality policies etc for the owners of the company. I write.... they sign. An exercise in scoring a tick with the auditors.... hate the lack of support / involvement by owners/directors (guys... I have really tried my best and failed with these people.... please don't blame me).
Also hated the fact that API moved towards ISO 9001 with thier last edition of Q1. Its gone from specific oilfield QMS to generic QMS IMHO. Recently sent the QM to API for review and approval for a minor change at it came back with 17 NC's!!! (must have been reviewed by one of these "three day course" experts they have there - oh forget to tell you....our QM is not written word for word from ISO 9001!!!)

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Scrap generic QMS - all organisations are different. They should be audited on the QMS being effective for the scope of THAT system and not a case of meeting the requirement of 4.x.x.a of a ISO standard.

I have really gotten a lot out of this forum and all of you who participate. I was curious, though, who all of you are and what you do. How about letting us know a little bit about you and your background?
1. John Perry
2. Product Quality Analyst. Complaint department.
3. Hospital Products
4. Hospira. Lake Forest, IL. Pleasant Prairie WI.
5. 10 Years in various quaity positions
6. One of the few "Quality Minded" people in my area.
7. Too many people don't know enough about Quality!!!! Grrr!!
8. Everyone working under the title of "Quality" should have to have to earn a CQE certification....Well maybe just a CQT would be ok:-)

Hello,

I am introducing myself here. My name is Ganesh. I am currently in management system consulting, training and third party certification audits. You will find my brief profile in the website in my profile.

(Click the menu "Our trainers" and scroll down to my name - N.C. Ganesh)

Thanks.

Hi Mr. Ganesh! :bigwave:

Welcome to the cove!

It's a small world... :o
I'm in the company you audited for TS Stage2 last Jan.'06
here in the Philippines.

How are you?

I've been here in this cove last Sept.'05,
in which this cove helped me a lot in our TS Cert. Preparations. :D

Hope to see your advises here in the cove. :)

My name is Tim Daniel. I worked for Tyco Electronics Automotive Group for Twenty Three years. My experence at Tyco started off in Quality as a Quality Tech completing First Article Inspections. I then was promoted to Lab Supervisor. I went from Quality to Senior Supervisor Position over Injection Molding and Mold Repair Departments. I then took on the task and was Certified as a Six Sigma Black Belt where I complete several projects and trained Green Belt classes. After Twenty Three years of that I decided to try something a little different and go back to my passion of Sales and Service as well as programming Optical and Touch Probe CMM,s with The FD Hurka Company out of Charlotte NC. I look foward to meeting different people on this site.

Thanks

1. Michael
2. Master Six Sigma Black Belt
3. Electronics (Commercial/Defense: Communications/ECM/Radar)
4. San Diego, CA
5. 20 Years
6. Had a lengthy one-on-one conversation with the late Dr. Deming.
7. People who teach/implement SPC incorrectly!
8. Have Spock conduct a "Deming" mind meld on all executives!

Welcome to ALL the new folk! :bigwave:

We're happy to answer your questions and even happier when you feel confident enough to answer someone else's questions. It's all part of the growing process we purport to champion in our work lives.

Hi all,
here a quick introduction of myself after enjoying allready tons of outstanding information in this forum: my name is Joachim and I am a production supervisor in a capital goods manufacturing company. I have no official quality job title, but I am directly involved in all quality issues with regards to my product. I try to apply tools and methods as described in our company policies but also things that I learn while studying (MoS) and reading thru these threads in this forum.
The most frustrating thing is to see what methods are out there and what real life looks like in my organization:bonk:...but we are getting better! Everyday a little bit!!:magic:

Cheers

1. Name – Billy Hamilton
2. Quality and Compliance Coordinator
3. Contact Centre and Mailing House
4. MM Teleperformance, Bangor Co.Down N.Ireland
5. 2 years
6. In spite of being in Ireland - I am a baseball umpire. We have a 10-team All-Ireland League.
7. All the new standards that keep cropping up. I came upon this forum while researching ISO 10002
8. Let senior management lead it more rather than having to be pushed.
.

Hi to everyone, here's my introduction

1) David Phillips
2) Corporate communications for Zwick Roell Group (manufacturer of automated materials testing equipment in Germany)
3) Reason for joining : To listen to the issues and problems which come up in quality assurance environments and using that information to improve our marketing information, products, and support.

Welcome everyone!

1. Name: Joseph Hendriawan
2. Consultant for a textile and garment factory
3. I have been in Oil industry (Chevron Texaco Petroleum Co.) for 24 years, and nearly 11 years in garment manufacturing company in Indonesia until now.
4. Currently helping a garment factory (5000 employees)
5. 14 years in Quality management
6. I enjoy learning and meeting people from different cointries.
7. Changing culture in an organization is very touch
8. If I can change the world of quality - implementing quality management system should become a requirement to do business.

Best regards to all!
Joseph

I have really gotten a lot out of this forum and all of you who participate. I was curious, though, who all of you are and what you do. How about letting us know a little bit about you and your background?
1. Name
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
3. Industry you're in or have been in
4. Company you work for and location
5. Length of time in quality function
6. Something personal that sets you apart
7. Your pet peeve in quality
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?


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See you down life's highway!

Eric

[This message has been edited by Greenraisin (edited 18 April 2001).]
HI ALL,

My Details:
1. Name: Arvind
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Manager QA & Systems
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Automotive
4. Company you work for and location: TATA, India
5. Length of time in quality function: 15 Years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: None
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Narrow Management approach
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: Preach

Cheers!!

[Do you know GM develop a new supplier detail procedure ?

which company are you work ? I am also a Chinese guy, At elsamr found you

1. Steve Mac Donald
2. Germinating a brand new QMS at a growing company
3. In rugged computers now, was in PCB Fab and assembly.
4. Glacier Computer, Amherst New Hampshire
5. Shoved into Quality in 1999. Downsized in 2003. Laid off in 2005.(4 years?)
6. I do a great impression of Marvin the Martian. Where's the Kaboom? There's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboo-oom" Excellent way to pep up those boring production meetings.
7. Managers who make you mix the Kool-Aid and then refuse to drink it.
8. Make them drink the Kool-Aid.

I was literally bribed into doing a Q2000 conversion at my last job, with no knowledge of ISO or QMS. I read alot, learned about Elsmar Cove, and we did great. I learned to love the whole "Quality" universe. ( Evidence of hidden head trauma?) But like a drunk date--after the fun was over--I got kicked to the curb without cab fare.

I have found a new home, in a small company, filled with a quality minded leadership. It's an opportunity to document a new QMS from the ground up before their impending growth makes it cumbersome. I hope to share the experience here, as I draw on your collective wisdom to refresh my memory.

I look forward to the experience.

1. Jill T. Davis
2. Job Title: Quality Technician, all-purpose
3. Automotive / Paint
4. I now work for a small-but-dear 2nd-tier painting operation, caught between the plastics molder and the main customer.
5. Quality-related functions since 1991 when I laid hands on my first optical comparator and documented measurements.
6. Something personal that sets me apart? I try not to think about quality-related problems between 5 pm Friday and 6:30 am Monday, which gives me time to relax, refresh, and reboot. I did state "try..." I garden, and I find that I have set up my own quality systems there!
7. My pet peeve in quality is the thought that a Quality Department can somehow magically make things better with new forms, new processes, new people. A garden does not become better with the addition of new plants--it only grows well in a good soil base.
8. If I could change the world of quality, what would I do? I'm here at Elsmar Cove to find out if change is possible.

Thanks Marc for fixing registration problem!
Jill T. Davis

Hi. everyone
Here is my details
1. Name
My name is Thomsun
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Supplier Quality management
3. Industry you're in or have been in
OEM compamy
4. Company you work for and location
Wistrom , china
5. Length of time in quality function
2 years in quality assurance and supplier management field
6. Something personal that sets you apart
no
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Training by quality system.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Spreads with education

Have a nice day!
Thomsun

Hi. everyone
Here is my details
1. Name
My name is Thomsun
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Supplier Quality management
3. Industry you're in or have been in
OEM compamy
4. Company you work for and location
Wistrom , china
5. Length of time in quality function
2 years in quality assurance and supplier management field
6. Something personal that sets you apart
no
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Training by quality system.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Spreads with education

Have a nice day!
Thomsun

Welcome, all of you :bigwave: We are looking forward to your posts :read: , so rev up your keyboards and start typing...

/Claes

1. Mahmoud Amer
2. Quality system Consultant
3.Consultation
4. ID-Management Consultants Palestine
5. 2 Year

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See you down life's highway!

Eric

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Hi,

How r u

This is santosh from India. This is my post related to QMS

Regards,

Santosh Halunde

Interested topics, ISO/TS 16949:2002, ISO 14001:2004

1. Tom Riner
2. Manager of Quality Systems and Continuous Improvement
3. Foundry supplying primarily automotive OEM and tier 1
4. Grede Foundries, Inc. St. Cloud
5. 2 months although I have been a victim of quality for 15 years:frust:
6. too many things to list:lol:
7. Your pet peeve in quality – Cumbersome, bureaucratic systems that actually take away focus from improving quality :mad:
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Teach people the intention behind the tool so that they understand why we do things instead of blindly following:soap:

Wonderful site - I'm glad I found you:applause:

Welcome to all the new people...looking forward to "meeting" all of you in our threads. :bigwave:

1. Byron Collins
2. Manager Supplier Quality
3. Contract Manufacturing(EMS)
4. Pemstar, Rochester MN
5. Been doing this 6 years
6. Passion for excellence
7. People who try to use too many quality tools and miss the point sometimes the fix is simple
8. (KISS) Keep it simple. It doesn't need to be rocket science

1. Charis Meade
2. Business Consultant (Quality Management Rep)
3. Insurance Services
4. MetLife--Dayton, OH
5. 1.5 years (only a couple of months in this position)
6. I have the world's cutest dog. If you don't believe me, check out my avatar!
7. My Quality Pet Peeve: Management being afraid to do things of great value to the business that might "make the numbers look bad"
8. Help people to realize that it's only as complicated as you make it. If you don't want to kill yourself with useless forms and procedures, don't design them.

1. Abraham Massouda
2. Operations and Quality porevious to that I was Vice president of Operation for a Medical laser company
3. Medical Products ( Dermatology lasers , Patient Monitoring)
4. Becton and Dickenson, Sharon Mass, Kontron Instruments Evrett Mass, SOLX Inc. Boston MAss
5. 2 Years
6. I have received ISO approved and received to product approval in less than one year
7. Every auditor is different and every one has his requirement, some time the auditors are wrong, I had a non conformence on the box labeling because it did not include the EU Rep., according to the standards as long as it is in the instruction for Use than you should be OK.
8. You can not change the world because people are human and make mistackes th, the question is how to catch the mistakes when they are made. I would rather design quality in instead of inspecting it in.

:biglaugh: :applause:

Have a nice day

Abe Massouda
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See you down life's highway!

Eric

[This message has been edited by Greenraisin (edited 18 April 2001).][/QUOTE]

Hi, and thanks for the hosts and moderators of this fine resource.

1. RealName:
John

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
ISO-prime at small design/development company. Implemented 9001:1994, then 9001:2000 now adding 13485:2003

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Medical Electronics

4. Company you work for and location
Small private designer of mobile medical monitor, located north of the border.

5. Length of time in quality function
8 years, initially software QA, then the whole 9001 enchilada.

6. Something personal that sets you apart
:o

7. Your pet peeve in quality
Am I doing this just for the auditor, or is anyone else going to take any notice?

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Somehow standardize the registrars - yes, I know they're already accredited but still the standards vary significantly, and they also have a vested interest in the business since we are their customer! Ideally a registration audit would be more like a driving test, done by someone who's not paid by the company they're auditing.

Hi, everyone, and Welcome! If you are looking for something specific, try our search function. Also, at the bottom of every thread is a listing of a few related threads.

Don't be bashful!

It seems that I am in the minority as I come from over the pond, but here goes with who I am etc...

1. Kate Evans
2. IT Project Manager and Quality Manager for ISO 9001:2000 and in the process of implementing ISO 27001:2005.
3. Currently in IT, Customer Services for Private Medical Insurance before this!
4. Indigo4 Systems Ltd, Sheffield, UK
5. As QM for 2.5yrs, but had involvement with ISO for 4yrs.
6. I will overcome any challenge.
7. Lack of management support and resistance to change by colleagues.
8. I would aim to make it far more inherant in all job roles and companies.

I look forward to some 'fun' discussions.

Thanks
Kate.

I have been here a short while already, but have not got the courage to post in this thread until now :)

1. RealName:
Lars

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Trying to take the company from QS to TS

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Commercial Vehicles

4. Company you work for and location
A global automotive supplier in Sweden.

5. Length of time in quality function
At the current company 6 months, 2 years with the former.

6. Something personal that sets you apart
Collects Single Malt Whisky, loves Italian food, and listens to old school heavy metal.

7. Your pet peeve in quality
I cannot come up with something particular at the moment.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
See above.

Hello all new Cove dwellers, and welcome one and all :bigwave:

Lars_: Kul att äntligen se en landsman här, det var ett tag sedan.

KateE: We may be a minority, but you are not alone on this side of the pond.

Le Chiffre: Good point in no 7.

Massouda4: "I would rather design quality in instead of inspecting it in" Yes! :agree1:

freddie1997 & kittysoph: I like your points on no 8: (KISS).

I'm looking forward to your posts.


/Claes

I 'll try to introduce myself:

1-my name is Nadine Beshara
2-totally without experience as I am still a student
3-I have to do a stage regarding iso 9001 in commercial office
4-not working yet
5-I am just entering quality world
6-what make me apart maybe my enthousiasme
7-don't know yet
8-make it more simple

1. Name: Andy MacPhee

2. Job Title: QA Manager

3. Industry: current - steel tube manufacture (11 yr+)
previous - stamping, injection & compression moulding, electronics, electrical distribution, construction, coal mining

4. Company: Dofasco Tubular Products

5. Length of time in quality function: in, out, and around it since about 1982

6. Something personal that sets you apart: My personal philosophy "Non Illigitimous Carborundum" - or - Don't let the Bastards grind you down ;-)

7. Pet peeve in quality: Should erase the word "Quality" from the language and replace it with "Business". Just think of the buy-in across the breadth of an organization that a "Business System" would get - it would not be the sole responsibility of the "Business Department".

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - SEE #7

Hi Andy,

My name is Massoud4
I think your are right with th word quality:) It is important to know people if they understand what they are looking for in the product they would do a good job, understanding how the product is used and the reason why you accept and reject items, most of all use common sense.

I will introduce my self
My name Abraham Massouda
Company SOLX Inc.
Product Medical implantable Glaucoma shunt
Title Operations and Quality
Length of time in this Job 13 months
Hi Andy,

My name is Massoud4
I think your are right with th word quality:) It is important to know people if they understand what they are looking for in the product they would do a good job, understanding how the product is used and the reason why you accept and reject items, most of all use common sense.

Welcome everyone! Thanks for taking a minute to say hello and introduce yourself. It's always interesting to see people's 'details'. There are folks here from almost every country in the world!

Hello to everybody here is my information

1.My name is Luis :lmao:

2. Job Title: Quality engineer

3. Industry: current - Motor manufacture (2 year and hope +)


4. Company: Sociedad de Motores Domesticos in Mexico

5. Length of time in quality function: since April 2005 so I am new on approval new suppliers for our company

6. Something personal that sets you apart: I always want to learn somenthing new

7. Pet peeve in quality: Learning by myselft to use six sigma tools, well not at all but it almost for read things in web pages as this one.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Help people to understand that freedom the information can help to everyone:applause:

Thanks and regards

Hi everybody, I will introduce myself
1. My name is Rogelio Grijalva
2. Job Title: Quality Manager
3. Industry: Plastics for automotive industry
4. Company: Durakon Industries
5. Length of time in Quality Function: Since 1995

1. Name - Mrs. rs11738

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - I am the director of quality for the contract I am currently working with...

3. Industry you're in or have been in - Currently, I work on a ISO 9001:2000 registered gov't contract (about 250 people) which is tasked with protecting the Medicare trust fund (i.e. the contract looks for fraud and takes appropriate actions up to and including referral to the OIG or FBI for prosecution.). I have also worked for an ISO 9001:2000 registered immigration contract and conducted quality audits for over 200 USCIS sites across the US & US territories. Before this, I also worked on an immigration contract in helping ensure quality in the clerical processing of applications for naturalization and permanent residency (think millions of applications a year). I am also an ASQ CQM.

4. Company you work for and location - mid-size government contractor (approx. 2000 people) in the DC area.

5. Length of time in quality function - worked in the quality function since 1994. Full time in quality since 1997.

6. Something personal that sets you apart - Not sure - but one thing that I feel very fortunate to have done is that I have traveled a lot both in the US and abroad - for work (in quality and in the merchant marines). I also attended the US Merchant Marine Academy.

7. Your pet peeve in quality - people who take suggestions for improvement (even when delivered in the most professional manner) as a personal attack and just choose to get defensive.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - I would like to see quality built into every part of a business from the ground up instead of it being an after thought or a quick bandaid solution after there's a problem.

[QUOTE=rs11738]

7. Your pet peeve in quality - people who take suggestions for improvement (even when delivered in the most professional manner) as a personal attack and just choose to get defensive.

QUOTE]


Absolutely. That attitude is learned,and usually built on fear of reprisal. It is much easier if we gang up on that ugly old problem instead of ganging up on each other.

Oh, and welcome to all of you. I look forward to your posts!

:bigwave:
Hello everyone! I have been using this web site for many years. I decided to join in and throw my 2 cents as everybody else. I will use the suggested format:
1. Name: Omar Shubailat

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Senior Quality Engineer, I am working with our Engineering group to help as a team to bring about a meaningful APQP process. I also support as the only quality personnel with adjacent plant to our small company's headquarters

3. Industry you're in or have been in: I worked in appliances industry (assembly and partial sheet metal and case manufacturing) in Amman-Jordan. In the past 6 years I worked in Automotive industry as in Tier 1 and Tier 2 companies. Never worked for OEM directly or never was further than Tier 2. I am exposed to Stamping, Machining, Poly Urethane (interior), Assembly, and recently Rubber

4. Company you work for and location: I work now in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Rubber and stamping industry

5. Length of time in quality function: I have been exposed to quality sense I started my B.Sc. In 1990 as my field is Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering/ Quality. I have had my M.Sc. In Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering/ Major Quality from Wayne State University-Detroit

6. Something personal that sets you apart: Soccer, walking by the Lake, swimming, reading and discuss different issues

7. Your pet peeve in quality: I look at all documentation procedures, i.e. 8-D, 5-Why, APQP, PPAP, P/D-FMEA, Control Plan, P-Diagram, ISO standards and certification, TS 16949 procedures and certification, Fishbone, Kepner-Tregeo, DD&W (Dig Deep & Wide), Flow Charts, Pareto graphs, Quality alerts, SPC tools… and many more. All those are treated as the goal is to fill them rather using the trail in order to organize your steps and plan. I see quality people fixated on filling them rather using them as a guide line to improve effectiveness and efficiency.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? I would show the whole world how much we use quality tools in our personal life, but when it comes to work atmosphere we think of it through tunnels rather than the big picture. For example, when I deliver a training in SPC I always remind the parents, specially, about how we use SPC in our daily life: I say to a mom or dad, if you have 2 children one does not settle and always jumps around while the other one always calm and quite. You would be screaming at the active kid asking him/ her to settle down. IF for any chance that kid was calm and causing no problems you would first thing put your hand on his/ her forehead and check her skin color while checking the temperature. Even though you would like to have that kid calmer but you would be worried if that kid acted as you wish. This is the spirit of SPC there.

Hi everybody, here is my data...

1.My name is Eladio (AKA Layo)

2. Job Title: Quality System Mgr.

3. Industry: current - Aluminum Extrusions, Aluminum Ladders and Windows Manufacturing (2 Years)

4. Company: CUPRUM

5. Length of time in quality function: since August 2004 first as a Quality Chief in one of the Manufacturing Sites, and since December as Divisional QS Mgr.

6. Something personal that sets you apart: I'm the kind of people that loves to help others, please count on me...

7. Pet peeve in quality: I conider myself advanced in quality matters, but I want to keep learning....

Best Regards to everybody...
Layo.

Hello Everybody,
1. My Name is Ade Bahaudin
2. My Country: Indonesia, State: Jawa Barat, City: Karawang
3. My Company: Daido Indonesia Mfg, Motor Cycle Steel Rim Manufacturer
4. I am is a Procurement Staff - Administration
5. I am sorry if My English is bad.

Thank you All

Best Regards,

Ade

Welcome, everybody!:bigwave:

Like Marc, I am always thrilled to see visitors from throughout the world. We hope that we can all help bring a little more attention to bear on the quality of goods and services we produce. Most of all, we hope that we can take the lessons we learn here and pass them on throughout our organizations - especially to those who do NOT have "quality" in their job titles.

It is important to consider ourselves more as teachers than police. As W. E. Deming, the late quality guru, used to say, an organization has the best chance of excelling when its leaders and members have "profound knowledge" of what they do and how they interact with their customers, suppliers, regulators, and even competitors.

Hello everybody, this is pradeep. i am working as a product engineer for a tire-2 automotive supplier in melbourne,Australia.

as the forum database said: "hey you haven't posted yet - how about introcing yourself" here it goes:

my name is Florian,i am form austria. :bigwave: student of industrial management currently doing my internship at a site of a so called electronic manufacturing service provider following the moto: design - build - ship. company is planing on getting fda certified and starting to become a tier 1 supplier for an german car producer. so my job here is to help work through the jungle of requirements an procedures. ok that's it:)

as the forum database said: "hey you haven't posted yet - how about introcing yourself" here it goes:

my name is Florian,i am form austria. :bigwave: student of industrial management currently doing my internship at a site of a so called electronic manufacturing service provider following the moto: design - build - ship. company is planing on getting fda certified and starting to become a tier 1 supplier for an german car producer. so my job here is to help work through the jungle of requirements an procedures. ok that's it:)Nice to see you posting, Florian! Welcome!:bigwave:

So, here goes. Hi there, newbie on the site :rolleyes:
My name is Gert, and I am working as a validation coordinator for a medical device manufacturer i Denmark. I found this site, and it seemed like the place to be when you need info and feedback regarding ISO13485 and validation. My kind of place, cause I am new to validation, but I have got 4 years of experience within QA (amongst other: ISO 9001, ISO 13485, and EN 46002). I hope that you will bear with me, as I try to make my way through Elsmars Cove. :o

This is Neeta. I work as the QA head in a software organization in India. A friend sent me the link of this wonderful forum and I look forward to getting many more information related to QA activites which would help me perform better.
Thanks,

hi im a newbie..

Name: James
Title: Quality Assurance Executive
iNdustry: Food Processing.

Hope we can all learn from each other...

Hope we can all learn from each other...
Welcome! As you can see, that's the way the site works. People helping people.

Hello all, My name is Linda Croft . I work for a chemical process control laboratory in the upstate NY area. We are currently reviewing our calibration requirments for ISO.

Hello Everyone,
I have been lurking here in the coves for awhile and figured it was about time I introduced myself. I would like to say thanks to everyone for all the cool ideas and insights I have been able to gather here.
So, here it goes;

1. Name - Tammy

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Systems Management Rep / Audit Administrator

3. Industry you're in or have been in - Automotive

4. Company you work for and location - A privately owned company in Michigan that supplies plastic interior/exterior ornamentation to automotive

5. Length of time in quality function - started official (quality) in 2000 as the Documentation Clerk, current position started in 2002

6. Something personal that sets you apart - I once stood on my head in a mudpuddle.:biglaugh:

7. Your pet peeve in quality - only one???, many have already been mentioned in previous posts

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? see # 7
:magic:

:thanks:
Tammy

Hi everyone,
I am a new comer in the elsmar quality community forum. I would like to thank you for the opportunity to join, I hope I can make a lot of friends in this community.

1. Name - Joseph Hendriawan

2. A Quality consultant

3. Industry you're in or have been in - Oil industry (Chevron/Texaco) and now in garment industry.

4. Company you work for and location - Garment manufacturing company in Bandung - Indonesia

5. Length of time in quality function - I started learning Quality management in 1990, Work as consultant since 2002. I took several trainings including Examiner training for Malcolm Baldrige conducted by our parent company.

6. Something personal that sets you apart - I like learning something new and trying it to the operation

7. Your pet peeve in quality - Changing someones's habits as well as an organization culture

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? I think we should change ourself first before we try to change others.


Thanks and best regards to everyone,

Joseph

1. Name: Gaurav Narula

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : I'm a mechanical engineer working as Sr. Engr. Q.A.

3. Industry you're in or have been in : Manufacturing

4. Company you work for and location : Global Autotech Limited
6F, Sector 40~41,
Greater Noida,
Uttar Pradesh 201308 (INDIA)


5. Length of time in quality function : 4 Years

6. Something personal that sets you apart : The amount of Hard work that i can do !! ( WORKED FOR 56 Hrs NON STOP WHILE SETTING A MACHINE , NOT MY FAULT .. I'M HIGHLY MOTIVATED)

7. Your pet peeve in quality : Quality should be assured otherwise it adds cost to the company.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? : I would have made everything a POKE-YOKE with KAIZENS ( Would have brought complete automation and would have removed the scentence "Quality is Poor")

1. Name: bramanta

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : I am mr for qms based on ts-16949 and now trying to achieve 14001 cert.
3. Industry you're in or have been in : Manufactur
4. Company you work for and location : Daido indonesia manufacturing, Indonesia
5. Length of time in quality function : 3 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart :

7. Your pet peeve in quality :

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? :

1. Name
Bill (short for William), Aussie.

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
I'm an official sadist - after 20 years of Quality Management in the Auto Industry there is no more appropriate title.

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Automotive - Toyota, Ford, GM, DC and Mitsubishi mostly.

4. Company you work for and location
I've worked for a number of global suppliers in plastics, lighting systems, tooling, castings (Al foundry) and metal pressings as well as sealing and dampening systems (NVH)

5. Length of time in quality function
It's a life sentance.

6. Something personal that sets you apart
There are a few things, one is my belief in people. I've seen ordinary people rise to extraordinary levels of performance and achieve outcomes that can reduce a grown man to tears. Second is a down to earth approach to make systems work for people, not the other way around as so many "so called" experts would prefer.

7. Your pet peeve in quality
Too many highly paid theoretical experts making a mess of industry. A degree doesn't make anyone capable of doing this job - it's listening and doing that make the difference. Too many talkers!

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
a) Introduce a world wide accreditation program for Quality Consultants, 90% would fail.
b) Find a better international terminology for Quality Manager that is not a "fad term" or "wanker phrase" - a good quality manager doesn't manage quality - good quality is the result, we manage systems, culture hearts, minds and knowledge.

1. Sarah Cole :bigwave:

2. Quality Services Administrator - deal with all administration matters with regard to customer concerns. Also respomsible for maintaining QMS and ensuring it is up to date. Currently responsible for ensuring smooth transistion from QS 9000 to TS 16949

3. Automotive Industry

4. J L French based in Essex, England. Likely to be somebody else soon as in process of company being sold

5. Only been working in quality for 9 months - prior to that I was in a supervisory role on shop floor ;)

6. Very charismatic, don't take no for an a nswer, not afraid to stand up for myself, good communicator with nearly 10 years experience in the same company so know procedures and personnell

7. How it is always qualitys fault when non conforming products go out the door - we dont make them!!!!!!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

8. Ensure responsibility for mistakes was accepted by those who get it wrong, also ensure senior management owned the procedures (as they should!!!!!!)

Hello
1. Name: Sean Chang
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Engineering
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Auto interior trim

Hi, everyone, and WELCOME!

Please feel free to explore. We have a wealth of knowledge here, from some of the best minds the Quality field has to offer. Jump right in!

Greetings to all....

Name: Mayank trivedi
Occupation: Six Sigma Consultant
Qualification: Masters in Philisophy
Other things done: Been an AVP-Traininig with Hewlett Packard, jumped off a plane from 15,000ft thrice to calculate the value of 'g'....
Age: 27yrs....

I guess bragging is not something I am very good at. For the first time I have registered on this forum. Does this forum have discussions listed topic wise or are they random.

Cheers

Mayank

1. Name - Sara Kidwell aka Siothaed
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Assurance Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Government Consulting
4. Company you work for and location - Energy Enterprise Solution in MD
5. Length of time in quality function - 10+ years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I'm a (pseudo) medieval re-enactor (historical and fantasy) and like hitting people with padded weapons in my spare time as well as make armor and costumes.
7. Your pet peeve in quality - Not walking the walk
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - Find the magic key to unlock understanding for non-students of quality so top management and others can "get it" and understand Quality Assurance vs. Quality Control and how it applies to all aspects of the business (and personal life)...not asking much, am I.

:applause: Hi Folks.

I hope every one is havining it easy in convincing managment that quality does contribute to profit in the bottom line, it is cost effective to find deffective product in house than at the customer, also a happy customer is a good promoter for your product an your company.

Hello to all you new folks! Jump right in! We're glad you've joined us!

1. Name:

Christina Coidakis-Barss

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:

Full Time Grad Student by day, Full Time Production Supervisor by night -graveyard shift:eek:

3. Industry you're in or have been in:

currently in Automotive Lighting, have been in Investment Casting

4. Company you work for and location: OSRAM Sylvania, Hillsboro, NH

5. Length of time in quality function:

BS (Before Sylvania) I worked for 8.5 years as a Senior Quality Lead Technician, Six Sigma Black Belt; Just started at OSRAM, got alot of ribbing for going into production, it has been a real learning experience;perfect job while working on my Masters

6. Something personal that sets you apart

Besides my obsession with Boston Terriers, the artist in me really helps when developing training solutions and moderating meetings. Passion and humor really help inspire others :)

7. Your pet peeve in quality

That people still do not get that you cannot INSPECT quality into a product!

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

Focus more on capturing the practices of shop floor personnel, improving the communication and relationship between quality and administration.

1. Name
Luci Oprea
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality Mnagement Sistem Responsable
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Plastic Mould Injection
4. Company you work for and location
Superplast International S.A. ARAD- Romania
5. Length of time in quality function
3 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
7. Your pet peeve in quality
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
I am just a biginner in the quality world, I don't have sugestions yet, but am I very glad to lern for all of you, and thank you for this convenience.
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See you down life's highway!

Eric

[This message has been edited by Greenraisin (edited 18 April 2001).][/QUOTE]

1. Name
Jim Johnson
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
QA Manager, QS9000 Mgt. Rep., TS16949 Project Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Manufacture of Air Spring suspension components for the Automotive and Heavy Duty Truck industries.
4. Company you work for and location
Firestone Industrial Products Company, Division of Bridgestone/Firestone USA, Willimsburg, KY.
5. Length of time in quality function
In total, 20 years. 17 at present company.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
Christian, devoted to family, love the outdoors.
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Inconsistancy, incompleteness, dishonesty.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make everything perfect and all customers happy. But then, we would not have a job!

Welcome all!!!! Nice to see you here!!!

Hello
Thanks everybody:thanks:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
I am just a biginner in the quality world, I don't have sugestions yet, but am I very glad to lern for all of you, and thank you for this convenience.


Welcome to Elsmar Cove... this is a great place to learn! Wish you the best success in your new career!

Christina:bigwave:

7. Your pet peeve in quality
Inconsistancy, incompleteness, dishonesty.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make everything perfect and all customers happy. But then, we would not have a job!

Jim Welcome... was in Kentucky earlier this year, my sister works at the Toyota plant, definitely God's country...

Christina:bigwave:

Hi everybody!!! I write from Italy and these are some nformation about me (sorry if my English is not so correct :o )

1. Name
Edgardo Tarizzo

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality and Environmental Systems Manager

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Plastic moulding for Automotive applications

4. Company you work for and location
Italy

5. Length of time in quality function
15 years in the same job, but in four different companies

6. Something personal that sets you apart
I love my job and my family. My hobby is model railways and i relax listening music.

7. Your pet peeve in quality
Many companies start Quality Systems as a very useful thing, but after one year they became also paper to be shown to Customers and Certification Bodies:frust:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
To make every dept. involved in the system of its company.

7. Your pet peeve in quality
Many companies start Quality Systems as a very useful thing, but after one year they became also paper to be shown to Customers and Certification Bodies:frust:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
To make every dept. involved in the system of its company.

No apologies about your english... my Greek is as good as my grandmother's english and she still loves me!

Welcome!

Christina

Welcome to Elsmar Cove... this is a great place to learn! Wish you the best success in your new career!

Christina:bigwave:


Multumesc.

:bigwave: :bigwave:
Hello,

1. Name: Martins, José
2. Age: 47
2. Experience: 27 in Quality, 10 in Metrology
3. Automotive Industry

Hi everybody!!! I write from Italy and these are some nformation about me (sorry if my English is not so correct :o )

Welcome:bigwave:

Pradeep Palanisamy

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Product engineer

3. Industry you're in or have been in
Interior accessories for Automotive industry

4. Company you work for and location
Australia

5. Length of time in quality function
1 year

:)

Hi everybody!!! I write from Italy and these are some nformation about me (sorry if my English is not so correct :o )
Hello and welcome
I am working too in a plastic mould injection (icluding automotive parts).
If I can help you with something, I will doing gladly.
God bless you

1. Randy Clarkston
2. ISO Administrator
3. Aerospace
4. Britt Tool Inc. Brazil In
5. I have been in Quality for 10 years
6. I'm me.
7. Production thinking they can run Quality.
8. I will have to take some time to think about this one.

1. Myriam
2. New Business Co-ordinator (currently)
3. in line procurement of c-type fasteners
4. Anixter Manchester
5. not currently in quality function
6. started making some very special garments, usually always build/make what i want be that technical or sewing. don't have to stick to one type of interests
7. no idea so far
8. get me a job in it?

my name is maureen mariba. i'm 27 years. i'v been in quality for almost 2 years now. i'm a south african. i based in a city of pretoria. industrial engineering is my profession.

1. Name: Jean "John" Racine.
The Jean(legal name) comes from my French Quebecois parents, the John
(what everyone calls me) comes from growing up in the states.
2. Manager and Continuous Improvement Facilitator
3. Microelectronics manufacturing
4. IBM Canada Ltd, Bromont, Quebec, Canada
5. 5 Years
6. My optomism

1. Name : Jayashree S.Mani.Everyone calls me Jay
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Joint Managing Director,
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Machine Tools and Metrology
4. Company you work for and location :Guindy Machine Tools
Ltd., Chennai INDIA

5. Length of time in quality function : None (We make CMMs)
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Perseverance
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Wish everyone would look for quality in the little everyday things we do.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

Welcome to all new folks!:bigwave:
It's always amazing to see the widespread geographic distribution of our registered users.

While you are here, why not take a few minutes to post a picture and location at
Where are you from? Frappr mapping. (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=14114)

Welcome from me as well!

Wes, thanks for the reminder! Yes! Please do! Especially you folks from China, Asia, the Pacific Rim and the Middle East. I see so many people register from these areas and so few map themselves!

Please do take minute and 'Map' (http://www.frappr.com/elsmarcove) yourself!

1. Name: A.J. Harris

2. Job Title: Quality Manager-Not by choice but the only mind still standing.

3. Company: Kerma Medical Products, Inc. Portsmouth, VA. Growing medical supply company.

4. TIS: 3 yrs

5. Pet peeve: Ignorance. Too many chiefs in the Tee-Pee...not enough workers but everything is Quality's fault. Everyone is deaf and blind until something kicks them in the rear.

6. ?

Welcome all...nice to see the new folks!!!

Hi Marc! I done it: I frappr'ed myself! Couldnt load gif and jpg versions of photo tho, dont know why

Frapper is kinda buggy, I guess. But - It is a nice way to see where people are who find this website and forum are from.

1. Name - Michelle
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Manager & Management Rep.
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Automotive, machine tool builder
4. Company you work for and location - Michigan, I work for a Japanese company.
5. Length of time in quality function - 5 Years at this organization. 10 years in supporting functions.
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I'm called the "Jolly" QA Rep.
7. Your pet peeve in quality - Employees see it as something outside of their responsibility. Employees who think of Quality as a 4 letter word.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Impose jail time on Management who doesn't support Quality functions within the organization. :lol:

Hello Everybody
1. Suat Gencer
2. Process Development
3. Infrastructure (High voltage transformers, distribution transformers, medium voltage switchgear production facility)
4. AREVA Turkey
5. 1 week
6. My background is mainly on production processes and I decided to improve them based on my experience
7. Lack of quality management
8. Give more oxygen where needed:)

Hello Everybody
1. Suat Gencer
2. Process Development
3. Infrastructure (High voltage transformers, distribution transformers, medium voltage switchgear production facility)
4. AREVA Turkey
5. 1 week
6. My background is mainly on production processes and I decided to improve them based on my experience
7. Lack of quality management
8. Give more oxygen where needed:)


Wellcome.

Hi everybody. My name is Nafisah Begum and i am incharge of the regulatory affairs department of my company. We are located in Singapore

Hi everybody. My name is Daniel, I am a quality engineer in the automotive industry, i live in Toronto, Canada.

I'll join in,

1. Name
Dana Stout
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
CMM Technician in charge of all checking fixture and gauge calibrations.
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Automotive industry
4. Company you work for and location
AZ Automotive Corp Canada
5. Length of time in quality function
I have been in the Quality department for just over 7 years. I started as an inspector and have been calibrating gauges for the last 4 years.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I believe that people in other departments (production/maintenance) actually like and respect me.
7. Your pet peeve in quality
We are seen as the bad guys by most and when things go bad it must have been quality’s fault. Also, the perception that we don’t do anything.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make Management react positively to what we have to say.

I'll join in,

1. Name
Dana Stout
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
CMM Technician in charge of all checking fixture and gauge calibrations.
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Automotive industry
4. Company you work for and location
AZ Automotive Corp Canada
5. Length of time in quality function
I have been in the Quality department for just over 7 years. I started as an inspector and have been calibrating gauges for the last 4 years.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I believe that people in other departments (production/maintenance) actually like and respect me.
7. Your pet peeve in quality
We are seen as the bad guys by most and when things go bad it must have been quality’s fault. Also, the perception that we don’t do anything.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make Management react positively to what we have to say.

Welcome to the Cove, Dana :D

Feel free to join the discussions!


I believe that people in other departments (production/maintenance) actually like and respect me.

I used to think this too, but the medication has helped a lot :biglaugh:

Hello,

My Name is Greg Sams
Quality Engineer/Black Belt Trainee for Gear Department Cat Inc.
I've been in Quality for 7 years. Ran a all kinds of machines for 22 years. Then went into quality. First as CMM Inspector, then gear inspector, then manufacturing line supervisor and now Q.E.
Personal: I own a Karaoke/DJ business.
Quality Pet Peevs: The operators of the world who don't check their work.
Changing Quality World: Have all Quality Standards written in language that is easy to understand and includes "Best Practice" Templates.

Quality Engineer/Black Belt Trainee for Gear Department Cat Inc.

Welcome to the Cove Greg! My wife used to work for the "long since gone" Cat parts plant in York, PA. Keep the good quality in that Earth-moving equipment!!;)

...and while I'm at it - Welcome to all the other new Cover's. Wow, 985 posts and counting!! Hope you all find this group as helpful as I have.:cool:

-Steve

My name is Ken, I've been a Quality Engineer for 12 years now (time flies when you're having fun). I am currently working for a company named Horiba Instruments in Ann Arbor, Michigan as a Quality/Reliability Engineer. I've been here for 6 years. I enjoy movies, books, models and my action figure collection. My biggest pet peeve in quality is people who throw around all the buzz words (especially customers) but don't quite understand what they mean or what they are trying to accomplish with a system. I think I am liked and maybe respected, but sometimes not sure. The thing I would changed in the quality world - see my pet peeve.

Dear All,

My name is Vu Nguyen, 35, I 've worked in QA filed for 10years, I am currently working for Unigen company-VietNam, headquarter in Fremont. I like foot ball, fashion and books...I want to study more in quality activities, hope every body can help. Thanks all.

Vu Nguyen

Hi everybody. My name is Daniel, I am a quality engineer in the automotive industry, i live in Toronto, Canada.

Hello Daniel,

Wellcome in the elsmar cove.:applause:
My name is Lucian Oprea. I live in Arad-Romania.
I am working in a plastic mold injection company.

Send me a masage if Arad Romania sound familiar to you :D

Sorry for my english :o

I'll join in,

1. Name
Dana Stout
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
CMM Technician in charge of all checking fixture and gauge calibrations.
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Automotive industry
4. Company you work for and location
AZ Automotive Corp Canada
5. Length of time in quality function
I have been in the Quality department for just over 7 years. I started as an inspector and have been calibrating gauges for the last 4 years.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I believe that people in other departments (production/maintenance) actually like and respect me.
7. Your pet peeve in quality
We are seen as the bad guys by most and when things go bad it must have been quality’s fault. Also, the perception that we don’t do anything.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make Management react positively to what we have to say.

Hello and wellcome from Arad - Romania
:applause:

Yes - Hello to all the new folks visiting here! Welcome!

hi all,
i am a novice in quality ,iam doing my masters in Industrial Engineering
iam jai
iam working as an operations Intern worrking towards implementing a quality control plan for a certain process
Working for Bacons Informations Inc, Chicago, US
its been like 3 weeks i have been in bacons
The word variation in quality as of now looks like a big hurdle to me, so if i could change something inthe world of qualtiy, i will try to eliminate variation.

1. Name: Maggie Wong
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
- Quality specialist: iso9K implementation and software developmemt project coordination
3. Industry you're in or have been in
- telecom and smartcard technology, specialized in the back-end clearing & settlement system
4. Company you work for and location
- Octopus Cards Limited, Hong Kong, China
5. Length of time in quality function
- since 2000 in the ISO9002:1994 quality system maintenance
6. Something personal that sets you apart
- oh... introversive
7. Your pet peeve in quality
- insufficient know-how in other domain areas. others think us academic rather than practical
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
- be proactive

Hello everybody, I'm happy to come in this interesting forum (sorry for my English, I'm French!:rolleyes: ) :bigwave:
1- Céline Canesse
2- quality engineer (indeed, this is the job that I will do on September, when I have my degree!!!)
3- Cheese and trade
4- Losfeld, France
5- I'm doing a placement
6- Too long to explain in English...:frust:
7- Quality is considered by other functions as time lost, and money lost...
8-More confidence from other functions

:yes:

hi all,
i am a novice in quality ,iam doing my masters in Industrial Engineering
iam jai
iam working as an operations Intern worrking towards implementing a quality control plan for a certain process
Working for Bacons Informations Inc, Chicago, US
its been like 3 weeks i have been in bacons
The word variation in quality as of now looks like a big hurdle to me, so if i could change something inthe world of qualtiy, i will try to eliminate variation.
I wonder if Bacon is the successor to a clipping service which used to have its offices in 14 East Jackson building, Chicago. Back in the 60's (and much earlier, of course), companies and individuals used to pay clipping services to hire readers to read through ALL publications, looking for any mention (good, bad, or indifferent) of the company name, the person's name, or product name.

My company subsequently owned that building for a few months in the 70's while we were refinancing a small casualty company that owned it. One of the vacant office suites had been the home of Bacon, a clipping service. In going through the abandoned personal property of the tenant, I fell heir to one of the "desk easels" the readers used to hold the reading material at a comfortable angle and still use it 35 years later!

Hello all new folks and wellcome.

Hi,

Its the same Bacons, and its a part of AB observer now.., they moved their office to michigan avenue

Hello Everbody,

I am Nazrul Islam; my educational backgorund is Chemical Engineer and working in a 360MW combined cycle power plant.......:D

Have fun...........

Nazrul.

Welcome to Elsmar, everyone! We all hope you have productive visits!