Just a reminder -- Have YOU input your location?

Frapper (http://www.frappr.com/elsmarcove)

and

Map Services (http://www.mapservices.org/myguestmap/showguestmap.do?id=Elsmar)

Thanks!

Marc

Is there a way to change your location? I checked out the website and didn't see how to change your location.

However, it would be nice if all newcomers and users would place their name and location.

Welcome Colibry!:bigwave:

Both to the Cove, and to the Quality arena. We hope that you learn lots and teach us lots too.

Is there a way to change your location? I checked out the website and didn't see how to change your location.

I honestly don't know. I'll have a look later today.

I honestly don't know. I'll have a look later today.

Thanks Marc

I just looked all over the thing. It's a nice idea and all that, but I don't see any way to change a location. I guess one would have to just enter a new 'pin'.

I just looked all over the thing. It's a nice idea and all that, but I don't see any way to change a location. I guess one would have to just enter a new 'pin'.

I will renter my current information to update my location from Florida to Georgia.

This MAY be possible in Frappr- you can log in to your account and then 'Edit Profile' to change the location. I didn't try it, but there is a facility to change location.

I stand corrected... You're right, Atul. I went back in, looked around some more and edited my location and it changed the pin location. I just didn't look close enough earlier :notme: I did notice that even though I put in my exact street address in the map view it does not exactly locate my house like Google Earth does.

Essentially I had to 'Log In' with my e-mail address and password. That gave me access to change a number of settings.

Hello !

1. Name : C. Weng Soong

2. Job Title : QA Manager

3. Industry : Manufacturing of Testile Products

4. Location : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

5. Length of time in quality function : 12 years

6. Something personal that sets you apart : "Quality" is a way of life

7. Your pet peeve in quality : Lack of awareness/support/commitment all the way around

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

1. Name: Richard Rains
2. Job Title: Quality Engineering Manager
3. Industry: Diesel Engine machined components - Rods, Blocks, Cylinder Heads
4. Joint venture operation between Cummins and Case New Holland located in Eastern North Carolina
5. Length of time in quality function: 20 years
6. Husband of 1 wife for 30 years - can leave work at work.
7. My pet peeve in quality is that we hear quality is number 1, but we know that production volume wins when push to comes to shove - I've had to play Fred Sanford too many times selling parts - not in current company but the memories of past jobs still haunt the dark recesses of my mind.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? We have to, absolutely have to, drive new designs to think about quality and manufacturability before product introduction. It's the best and cheapest time to implement real quality improvements.

Name: Sorry I don’t put my name on the web any more
Job title: About 20% of me is ‘Quality Manager’, but I have many other titles like Team Leader, or even sometimes Principal Scientist.
Time in quality function: about 5 years.
Type of organisation: UK laboratory doing accident investigation, research, environmental and biomedical testing. Total staff employed – about 400.

We are 9001 certified for all investigation, research and testing (all 400 staff). There is a full-time Quality Manager for this (not me). About 40 of us are engaged in environmental testing accredited to 17025 (that’s my QM function).

My pet peeve, if there is one, is double assessment of our top level management system by the 17025 accreditation body and by the 9001 certification body. It’s getting worse because 17025:2005 holders can now claim conformity with 9001 principles. To justify that award the accreditation body probes much deeper into 9001 territory than they used to. A small specialised 17025 accredited lab probably doesn’t need 9001 but we do. Our range of services is so large I couldn’t begin to describe it here.

My name is Cheryl McGuire I am Quality Manager for a finishing company. I have been in Quality for 14 years. I love this site it helps with questions. i am an ASQ Certified Auditor and love the auditing process. Everyday I try to learn something new.

Welcome, Cheryl! I see you've already contributed to one of the discussions. It's great to see folks dive right in and help out!

Hi everyone :) Just a brief introduction.....Hope it is OK with all of you.

1. Gideon Lau
2. Consultant
3. Numerous
4. Penang, Malaysia
5. Over 10 years as consultant and 2 years in Product Development
6. Multiskill and "Always looking for problems" :)
7. Lacks interest in quality.......often just couldn't be bothered.
8. What can we do? Change the people? Just kidding!!! Create quality awareness from day one........and frequently promote quality involvement across the board.

I just realised that this is the 'hello' thread too. So I just thought I would say 'hello.' :)

1. Name: Mary McAtee
2. Job Title: VP Implementation Services and Compliance
3. Industry: Compliance management and shop floor control software development and consulting.
4. IBS America, Lexington Ma but I am in Fort Lauderdale Florida
5. Length of time in quality function: 33 years
6. Happily married to my best friend and best advisor
7. My pet peeve in quality is people who won't lift their heads and look around them. They not only can't think outside the box they live under the box. You can't be ruled by fear of failure!
8.Quality improvements: Always striving to turn data into knowledge and using that knowledge to improve the quality of people's work lives and the products they make and services they provide.
9. Favorite quote: Yogi Berra, "If you don't know where your going any road will take you there!"
You all sound like a facinating bunch of people!

Welcome to all the new folks (and the old hands who just discovered this thead!):bigwave:

I'm looking forward to lots of interesting posts from you all.

Thank you Wes. It took me long enough to find it Doh! :o

Hello everyone.

1. Name: Howard Lee

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Quality Technician, do guage calibrations, operate a physical test lab, general jack of all trades

3. Industry you're in or have been in: currently I make high pressure laminates; formerly I made v-belts

4. Company you work for and location: Panolam Industries in Hampton, SC; formerly Dayco Products in Walterboro, SC

5. Length of time in quality function: been in quality for 8 years now, going to attempt the CQE in December

6. Something personal that sets you apart: In June 1995 I was going to work and received a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident (bad weather, bad luck). I spent most of the past decade recovering from said accident (had to learn to walk, take care of my personal needs, read, do math, pretty much start over again) I went back to school and received an associate degree (invalid for a couple of years is not too impressive on a resume :tg: ). Returned to quality in February 2006 (it was quality control when I was hurt, now it is quality assurance, a paradigm shift :confused: )

7. Your pet peeve in quality: not just quality related, but I hear "not my job" a bit too much

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? make people want to do more than "git r done"

Rock is hard but water is patient.

1. Hilton Herbst
...
6. I have a mechanical dominant approach to quality problems.
7. lack of production co-operation in quality
....

Hi Hilton.
Welcome to another SA QA ... with a Mechanical Approach...

Good Luck.

:cool:

Hello everyone.

6. Something personal that sets you apart: In June 1995 I was going to work and received a traumatic brain injury in an automobile accident (bad weather, bad luck). I spent most of the past decade recovering from said accident (had to learn to walk, take care of my personal needs, read, do math, pretty much start over again) I went back to school and received an associate degree (invalid for a couple of years is not to impressive on a resume :tg: ). Returned to quality in February 2006 (it was quality control when I was hurt, now it is quality assurance, a paradigm shift :confused: )



I found your introduction inspirational.:bigwave: :jawdrop: :applause:

Good luck on the CQE and let us know how we can help as your preparations approach the final stretch.:read: :beerdive:

1. Name -SASIKUMAR
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do -LEAD QS
3. Industry you're in or have been in -AEROSPACE
4. Company you work for and location -INDIA
5. Length of time in quality function -1 YEAR
6. Something personal that sets you apart - ALL ROUNDER AT WORK
7. Your pet peeve in quality - NONE SO FAR
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? -FIRST LET ME EXPLORE THE QUALITY :thanx:

1. Jerry Mairani
2. Director of Corporate Quality
3. 27 years in Telecom - 10 years Consulting - 1.5 Years HVAC and Sheet Metal
4. Beutler Corp. Sacramento
5. 31 Years in full time quality
6. President American Society for Quality 2005 - Chairman 2006
7. Folks making it too hard
8. Get everyone using the tools and methods of all quality functions

1. Jerry Mairani
2. Director of Corporate Quality
3. 27 years in Telecom - 10 years Consulting - 1.5 Years HVAC and Sheet Metal
4. Beutler Corp. Sacramento
5. 31 Years in full time quality
6. President American Society for Quality 2005 - Chairman 2006
7. Folks making it too hard
8. Get everyone using the tools and methods of all quality functionsWelcome, Jerry!:bigwave: How wonderful to see you here. Did you "lurk" for a while before registering?

You'll see a lot of us ASQ folk here. Our fond hope is that the ASQ Forums could become as rich in content and as active as the Cove. Perhaps you could do something as a "Last Hurrah" before you leave office? We've set up a small coterie of ASQ folk trying to deal with Rhonda Lang Netzel, but we've been bogged down in a lot of bureacratic foot dragging.

Hi All,

1. John Paquette
2. Quality Manager
3. Manage 3 division QMS, intranet based, ISO9K/17025 Lead Auditor
4. Injection Mould business in Canada
5. Have been in Quality for over 30 years. To long to list
6. Stiil have a passion for the roots in Quality that got me here.
7. OMG ISO needs to be cleaned up.
8. If I could change the world of quality, what would I do? RETIRE for the second time.

1. Anna J. Morriss
2. Six Sigma Black Belt & Master Change Facilitator
3. I'm in healthcare now (for 3 months) but started out in truck leasing
4. Providence Health & Services in CA
5. 5 years
6. I have a BA in Biblical Studies
7. Lack of true committment from senior leadership
8. Rebuild a company from the ground up, keeping quality in mind as all of the business systems are designed. I think I will just have to start my own business in order to accomplish this.

Hi, John and Anna, and welcome to the Cove!

Craig H.

1. Anna J. Morriss
2. Six Sigma Black Belt & Master Change Facilitator
3. I'm in healthcare now (for 3 months) but started out in truck leasing
4. Providence Health & Services in CA
5. 5 years
6. I have a BA in Biblical Studies
7. Lack of true committment from senior leadership
8. Rebuild a company from the ground up, keeping quality in mind as all of the business systems are designed. I think I will just have to start my own business in order to accomplish this.Welcome, Anna!:bigwave: I hope you'll take some time in the near future to start a thread in our Occupation Discussions (http://elsmar.com/Forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30) forum telling us how you made the transition from trucking to health care.

Good day to every one. I am glad to be here.

1. Name : David

2. Job Title : Principal Consultant

3. Industry : Consulting for Management Systems (ISMS, QMS, EMS, LQMS, etc.)

4. Location : Makati City, Philippines

5. Length of time in quality function : 8 years

6. Something personal that sets you apart : If your information is not secure, your future is not safe.

Name: Tootles T

Job Title: Quality Systems Supervisor

Industry: Countermeasure Products

Company: Kilgore - TN

Length of Time in Quality: 10 Years (Ouch)

Sets me apart personally: I truly want a system of continuous improvement...A system that works for us/not us for our system. (I must be delusional!)

Pet Peeve in Quality: People acting as if I am personally attacking them when a Corrective Action is issued, throwing temper tantrums, etc.

Change the world of Quality: Everyone held accountable for compliance in their areas and work as a team for Quality Management.

Name: Tootles T

Job Title: Quality Systems Supervisor

Industry: Countermeasure Products

Company: Kilgore - TN

Length of Time in Quality: 10 Years (Ouch)

Sets me apart personally: I truly want a system of continuous improvement...A system that works for us/not us for our system. (I must be delusional!)

Pet Peeve in Quality: People acting as if I am personally attacking them when a Corrective Action is issued, throwing temper tantrums, etc.

Change the world of Quality: Everyone held accountable for compliance in their areas and work as a team for Quality Management.

Ever since I saw "Roger Rabbit", I've wanted to meet someone from Toone Town - and here you are!!:biglaugh: Welcome to the Cove Debbie (aka Tootles T). I hope you enjoy participation in the Cove - this is a GREAT SITE!!:agree1:

As a 26-year veteran of automotive quality, please allow me to join you in your desire to have a System that works for you, not vice versa. Likewise may I comfort you in the pet peeve arena - those that violate the System we so dearly configure and then get angry (mostly because they got caught!) show their lack of maturity in accepting the responsibility to correct what they did and move on! Accountability when matched with responsibility and authority can drive continuous improvement, but must be driven.

Hello...I'm wayner, 66yo, & retired. I purchased a new coolsat 4000 pro ONE
YEAR AGO and walked away after about 2 months. I connected it to a DTV
dish (to whom I had been a suscriber to for about 4-5 years).
My aim was to scan the satellite spectrum to just see what was out there,
(much like listening to short wave which I did 46 years ago when I got of the
Navy (I was a communications technician)).
First off, the manual was very skimpy. After hooking it up I was able to ac-
cess the Menu, scan for satellites, view the sig strengths/quality, (went
thru the whole menu continuously} and after finishing/restarting got the
same screen with the message: NO CHANNEL (exclamation point).
Let me say that the vendor who sold me this item (for about $32x.00) was
of NO help whatsoever. His reply was a two and one half automated eMail
reply telling me that I should consult the various Inet User groups, which
I had been doing for about 5 months while at work (M-8am) before I had
purchased the reciever.
So my reason for writing now is : Maybe one of you very knowledgable (and
compasionate readers out there) could guide me on after the point I have
reached: N O C H A N N E L S
Many thanks, .....wayner (defolik@exciteemail address edited.com)
Any replies appreciated.

Moderator's Note : Please do not use email addresses in your post. If you wish to be emailed, you may set your profile to allow for this form of communication or use the Cove's PM (private messaging) system. Thank you.

1. Name : Linda
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
- I am a marketing for consultancy and training, focusing more on the ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. I am pretty new here and try to figure out hopefully by joining this forum 'n the more i read i would understand more and know how to approach the prospectives to go for these 3 standards

3. Industry you're in or have been in
- consultancy 'n training

4. Company you work for and location
- PSB Technologies in Singapore

so guys.., i'm looking forward to have fun 'n share 'n ask things about these standard.. thanks thanks..

1. Arturo Nava G
2. Sales & Develpment
3. Rubber & Silicon
4. EQ - Mexico
5. 1 year
6. My family
7. New Project Leader
8. Do my best effort.

Welcome, everyone! It's good to see so many new people registering. I hope to see each of you paticipating in discussions and I hope you find the information you're looking for!

It's saturday today so things are rather slow on weekends.

Hello every body
name: Youssef selim
Job title: Production manager
our company producing the bottles , preform and closure from PET resin.
company name: El nile co. for industry
location: Industry Area - New Salhiya city - Egypt
length of time in Quality function: about 6 years
something presonal that sets you apart: my hair is gray
My pet peeve in quality: Paradigms

Hi Everyone...

I am a newbie in this forum as well as this industry.. i'm not the EHS or QEHS officer or similar..

I'm more onto the marketing for the standard.. I'm still looking around.. I'll be glad if some would share any idea on how to let ppl who is not from this field know that what they are and how it goes..

Thanks for sharing, guys..


Cheers..
Linda

Hello everyone, i have been reading the posts on here for a while now and have obtained much useful information. i thought i had better start to interact.
Name: Tony
Job title: Quality Manager
Industry: Electronic Distribution
Location: Hertfordshire, England
Length of time in quality: 20 years in various roles (now that makes me feel old!)

Dear all,

My name is Michaël Maunier and I am French.
I work in the quality department and I have in charge quality issues with a customer named Ford . There is not a long time that I am in this job but I realy enjoy it . I have a great experience of the factory and in others services .( production, method, development, industrialisation, . :applause: . .)
My compagny make some belts, tensioners, decoupling pulleys, . . . and we are based in France close to Tours. We are 500 employes on our plant.

I know that i have to improve my english, and at the meantime i want to get a lot of informations about quality in my new job.

The first thing that I see is that we don't have realy good informations about customers requirements . Exchanging point of view on a furom like this one will probably help me a lot.

Anyway : the time is never lost when you give it to somebody else.

I'm now ready to share .
Michaël

Dear all,

i have been reading the posts and have obtained much useful information. i thought i had better start to interact.

Name: Arun Prakash
Job title: Assistant Manager - Quality Assurance
Industry: Auto Ancillary
Location: Chennai
Length of time in quality: 12 years in various roles.

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?)

1. Sjome
2. Supplier Quality
3. Medical devices
4. Minnesota, USA
5. 10 years in Meddev, 12 in QA
6. Nothing, I am the most average woman in the US
7. The assumption that quality is an independent function within a business
8. Have inadequate quality consultants and auditors drawn and quartered publicly

Hello Cove!

Name: Pankaj
Job Title: Assistant Manager - Engineering
Industry: Automobile
Company: Elofic
Background: Tool Engineering {Tools & Dies}

HI,

I am Elizabeth Saunders
I am from the islands of Trinidad and Tobago in the West Indies. From Trinidad actually.

I am the Quality Manager at a Structural Steel manufacturer. I also have general responsibility for Health and Safety.

I have been working in Quality Control and then Quality Assurance for about 17 years but only aoubt 8 years in an ISO environment.

I am looking forward to having serious disccusions on QMS matters with people who have been in the field. Sometimes the other members in the organisation are no help at all when looking for ideas.

See you all in the Cove

Welcome all Newcomers. Look forward to your participation. Enjoy your visits in the Cove :bigwave: Be sure to ask questions.

Welcome to the Cove all.:bigwave:
England, France, India, USA, Trinidad and Tobago - all on the same page. :cool: Where else would you find that?

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,

Thank you all for making this such an excellent forum. I have been browsing here and learning pragmatic QA.
1. Sriram Balu
2. QA Coordinator
3. Beverage Industry
4. Auckland, NZ
5. Associated with QA for long, but start in the new role next week.
6. Sceptical about everything except Quality systems
7. Half measures, the threshold of satisfaction is quite low most of the times!!
8. If I could change the world of quality, I would change the quality of the world.

Cheers,:thanx:

1. Tadek
2. Just started oneman consulting company
3. Automotive
4. Poland
5. Over 15 years in quality
6. My english is not good
:cool:

1. Name: Thomas Tang
2. Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager
3. Industry: Equipment
4. Company: SDLATLAS(ShenZhen) Ltd.
5. Length of time in Quality: 8 years

manos
greece
quality assurance manager
food industry
5 years
I'm looking forward to exchange thoughts and ideas about quality (especially 9001 and 22000).

Hi, i am dominic,a reseach and development chemist,working with Automotive
industries, the location is in China, I some time check some different material
standard.I have been working from North American for over 25 years.

k, let's see here :cool: NZ, Poland, China, Greece & Canada... As usual, a truly international collection of new members. Welcome to the Cove, all of you :bigwave:

/Claes

Hello,
I am Nezih Yasar, an industrial engineer working quality issues on SME's, since 1992.
I work for Bilgievi Consulting and Training Ltd in Turkey since 2002.
I found Elsmar Cove while googling, liked very much.

Hello,

My name is Piotr Stoklosa. I´m consultant and trainer in consulting company Pronost Grupa Doradztwa Kreatywnego Sp. z o.o.

My company cooperates with many automotive suppliers in Poland. We help them to implement quality, safety, and enviromental systems. We offer a lot of tranings related to the systems and especially to ISO-TS 16949:2002.

Piotr

Hello everyone,

My name is Bill Frazier and I operate a small training company that focuses on quality (specifically Six Sigma, ISO, Lean, 5S and all the softer skills that go into making all that come to pass.)

I have been in the quality business for over 30 years and have seen some really scary stuff as well as some pretty darn good stuff too.

I really enjoy this business and would like to see more organizations reap more from good quality management practices.

My unique item is that I am also a writer and am currently involved in a project about the 1860's in Georgia.

I look forward to chatting with all of you and wish each of you the best.

Name Pat Molloy
Quality Engineer
Knaresborough
North Yorkshire
Age 50
Looking for details on Layered Audits.

Hello all!
Rich Nash :cool:
Quality Engineer (not degreed)
Aerospace CNC Machining
Norris Precision Mfg. Clearwater, FL USA
4 years here, 8 years in QA
before entering the quality field spent 10 years as a Tool & Die/Moldmaker
Looking foward to learning & sharing. :bigwave:

I am Lester Celiz from the Philippines
Continous Improvement Engineer
Lear Corporation, Cebu, Philippines

My name is Michael Koh. Quality Manager, Singapore. :cool:

Look forward in sharing and learning.

1. Name--zllee
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do--Engineer
3. Industry you're in or have been in--EMS
4. Company you work for and location--Topgoal China
5. Length of time in quality function--3 years of quality + 3 years of engineering

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).]

my name is Hillel I am a the manager of a Quality Engineering office in a facility that makes parts an assebmlies for the aerospace and the automotive
industry. The company is located in Israel.

The world of quality will be changed when people/ Employee will belive and act not to do other what they hate is done to them.

things to do is teaching with love !!

Hillel

1. Name - Antonio
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Engenearing
3. Industry you're in or have been in - 12 years in Automotiv
4. Company you work for and location - Portugal
5. Length of time in quality function - 12
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? - Number of Papers

Hi!
My name is Stefan. I study quality management on Belgrade School of Business Administration :cool:

Welcome to all the new folks. We hope that we can help you out, but also that you will speak up. We all learn from one another. Good to have you here.

1. Name- John Minier (not really French, long story)
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do- Product Quality Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in- orthopedic implantable devices
4. Company you work for and location- SBi in PA
5. Length of time in quality function- 27 weeks
6. Something personal that sets you apart- I defected from the enemy (marketing)
7. Your pet peeve in quality- evil auditors
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?-I'd have a magic wand that made people understand the long term benefits of quality (yes, financial, too).

Hi, I am Angie, consultant, from Malaysia. :bigwave:

Hi There
1 Name - Hood
2. Job Title: Quality Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in - 10 years in Automotive
4. Company you work for and location - Malaysia
5. Length of time in quality function - 16

1. Name- Daniel LeSaux (French name, first generation American)
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do- Quality Systems Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in- Currently in semiconductor, have worked in multiple industries (aerospace, defense, automotive, industrial)
4. Company you work for and location- Skyworks, Woburn MA
5. Length of time in quality function- Over 25 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart- I love the Quality profession
7. Your pet peeve in quality- Too many repackaged quality tools under new names (TQM, Six Sigma)
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?-Convince manufacturing that no, we're not the enemy!

Everyone,

Hello.

1. Name - Pete
2. Job Title - Quality Engineer
3. Industry - Automotive, around 13 years
4. Company location - Ohio, USA
5. Length of time in quality - 10 years
6. Something that sets you apart-
7. Your pet peeve in quality- Lack of personal continuous improvement
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? -

By continuously improving myself, I am changing the World of Quality.:cool:

Hi, everyone, and welcome to the Cove!

I hope that if you are looking for something specific you find it. Why not try the search function?

If you are, or are not, looking for something specific, I hope you take a look around, and don't be afraid to post if you have a comment or idea. Here, we learn from each others' learning and experience.


Again, Welcome!

Craig H.

WOW! Take a few days off to kill and eat a bird or two and a whole new crop of folks sneak in the tent!

Enjoy the circus! We have everything! Clowns, tamers, acrobats, high wire walkers, all presided over by our ringmaster, Marc.

Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:

We are looking forward to the time when you will be an old hand welcoming new folks.

Hi everyone Hagarjane Derbyshire England
Mechanical Fitter (oow)
" Marriage is like a busted clock "

1. Florimond
2. Mechanical Engineer, responsible for medical device development
3. Aerospace, Medical Device
4. Victhom Human Bionics, Quebec, Canada
5. Never worked in quality
6. Ma gentillesse et mon sens de l'humour
7. QSR / ISO 13485
8. Keep it simple!

WOW! Take a few days off to kill and eat a bird or two and a whole new crop of folks sneak in the tent!

Gee, Wes, I never really thought of you as THAT scary, that people would wait for you to take a vacation to avoid running into you at the gate.:biglaugh:

Welcome all the newcomers. Wes does not bite, it's safe to come in anytime.

1. name :tonyquan,my english name ,i'm from china
2. title&job: quality assurance ,supervisor,mainly engaged in QMS development and maintenance , APQP&PPAP for new products
3. industry: automobile manufacturing field,major products are underbody components and suspension components
4. company:FUZHOU FUSHIANG MOTOR INDUSTRIAL CO.,LTD, fuzhou , China
5. five years experiences in quality control both in production and pre-lauch phase,from this point , I'm just a beginner.
6. Something personal that sets you apart: my personality
7. Your pet peeve in quality:lip service
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?:i will go fishing

Tonyquan,
Like to welcome you a board. This is the place you want to be if you are writing a manual.
I just recieved my audit today for AS 9003 but looks as though I will be changing to AS 9110 next year.

Again welcome aboard
Greta007

1. Florimond
2. Mechanical Engineer, responsible for medical device development
3. Aerospace, Medical Device
4. Victhom Human Bionics, Quebec, Canada
5. Never worked in quality
6. Ma gentillesse et mon sens de l'humour
7. QSR / ISO 13485
8. Keep it simple!

Florimond, Welcome aboard I see this is your first time in quality. Well enjoy the ride it only gets rougher from here.

hello, everyone

I like this forum, but I have never say anywords since I rigistered. I just want to know you how to do the qualtiy work in your company. Sometimes, the quality work is very difficult for me, especial communicated with the people who totally don't understand the quality work. They always think you just like a police (this words id told by our material manager!)! The job is watch their work and look for trouble! And many times, they would think the qulaity system just a fake frame, it can't really work! So, I'm very boring! What can I do?

hello, everyone

I like this forum, but I have never say anywords since I rigistered. I just want to know you how to do the qualtiy work in your company. Sometimes, the quality work is very difficult for me, especial communicated with the people who totally don't understand the quality work. They always think you just like a police (this words id told by our material manager!)! The job is watch their work and look for trouble! And many times, they would think the qulaity system just a fake frame, it can't really work! So, I'm very boring! What can I do?This is a great question!

Why not frame it as
"Any ideas how to change attitude of bosses and coworkers to think of Quality personnel as helpful, rather than as police?"
and start a new thread with it?

Please reread this thread for instructions on posting new threads:
http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=18980 (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=18980)
Welcome to the Cove :bigwave:and congratulations on your first post. :applause: :applause:

1. My name is Phil Chang
2. Quality Engineer focused on quality inspection.
3. All kinds of household appliance
4. TUV Reinland. Located in China
5. 1 years in quality and 1 in Operations.
6. listening to the music!
7. My pet peeve is the lip service given to quality
8. If I could change the world of quality, I will do!
My degree is in materials science

Welcome to all you new folks! :bigwave:
I'm looking forward to your future posts.

I think you'll find this a community of friendly, helpful practitioners. As Andrew Carnegie said, "The group mind is greater than the sum of its parts." Welcome to the group!:bigwave:

Welcome to all the new folks! It's sunday so things are a bit slow. Visitor traffic picks up during the weekdays.

Welcome to all the new folks! It's sunday so things are a bit slow. Visitor traffic picks up during the weekdays.

I think that it is in fact Saturday, at least it was when I left you a couple of hours ago

Yes - It's so quiet here right now I was thinking yesterday was sunday... Ah, what weekends will do...

1. Name: Ruel
2. Job Title: QMS Lead Auditor; I'm incharge in the Internal Audit,
Surveillance audit, Documentation, new management system
development, etc....
3. Industry: Automotive, Semicon, HDD, LCD, ODD
4. Company: see profile
5. Length of time in quality function: more than 5 yrs.
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Flexible, hardworking, open-
minded,
7. Your pet peeve in quality; Lack of support from top management
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Quality will be appreciated more by the top management and they will spearhead its implementation from top to the bottom level of the organization.

1. Name: Jay Player
2. Job Title: System Developer
3. Industry: Software Development
4. Company: a software development company
5. Length of time in quality function = 0
6. Something personal that sets you apart = I'm a computer scientist by heart.
7. Your pet peeve in quality: There's a cultural difference between the quality program and those who use it.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Make it a way of life, not some rules that an organization will have to comply.

Thanks.

Hello all,
My name is Mike and I am the QA manager at Algatechnologies located on Kibbutz Ketura in Israel. We grow algae in closed glass systems for the production of Astaxanthin which the algae produce when stressed. I have lived here on the Kibbutz for 28 years and have 5 kids. I only started working in QA a year and a half ago and completed at QA course at the Israeli Standards Institute. We are ISO9001-HACCP-GMP certified and it is my responsability to upkeep these standards. Next year we are going to be audited on the basis of ISO 22000 and I joined the forum to share the experience of the changover with people who have already "converted".

From Mike in Israel. True to form for a QA professional, I ignored the form I was supposed to use to submit info. Now I will have to see why this happened, determine how it won't happen again, make sure everyone in the organisation knows I am an idiot, try filling in the form again in 6 months and see if I learned my lesson.

1. Name- Mike Harris
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do- QA mangager
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Algae growth.
4. Company you work for and location - Algatechnologies Israel
5. Length of time in quality function - 2 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - Used to be a hairdresser - have no belly button
7. Your pet peeve in quality - regulation changes for the sake of change
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Have audits done by people who understand the industry they are auditing

Hi
i am new to this area.

1. Name
Lourna Barnett
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality Systems Analyst (what ever that means)
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Medical Devices manufacturing
4. Company you work for and location
Abbott Vascular formally known as Guidant
5. Length of time in quality function
16 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
My acceptance that at the end of the day it is all gravity
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Lip service by management and lack of support. Not leading by example
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

1. Name - Eric York
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Title - "Automotive Fab Support Manager" (How's that for avoiding the word "Quality"? :notme: ) Basically started as QA focussed on automotive products and standards, which morphed into QA Manufacturing while I wasn't looking.
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Semiconductor Manufacturing
4. Company you work for and location
A major semiconductor designer, developer, manufacturer and foundry. Based at a site in France.
5. Length of time in quality function
A few months! I'm one of those operationals (process engineer, product engineer, project manager, PE mgr) that made "the jump". :mg:
6. Something personal that sets you apart
Motivation, incessant desire to continue to learn. (My own personal CIP!)
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Gee where do I start? If we restrict ourselves to 1 and only 1 peeve, it would have to be the prevalent misconceptions of (or perhaps more accurately, blatant refusal to fully consider) what QA is really meant to accomplish.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
A bit premature to change the world. I'll start by working to improve my little corner of it, including perspectives of those I work with. ;)

:applause:

Laurna,

I would like to welcome you to the cove and you will see this place will help you out in examples and bombard you with reponses. Then It's up to you to decide what to do with all this information.

But I want to welcome you aboard and tell you to have fun and enjoy this site.

Bryon

1. William Terry
2. Quality Assurance database developer
3. Consulting
4. W.C. Terry & Associates located in N.E. Indiana
5. Over 20 years in quality assurance
6. I develope customized Q.A. database systems
7. Management that doesn't walk the talk
8. Apply the KISS concept

removed link - please add to your profile

Welcome to all the new folks.:bigwave:
After a time reading various threads, you'll get an idea of the personalities and expertise behind the posts.

I'm happy to say I learn something new every week, sometimes I "unlearn" stuff which has now become obsolete.

I'm looking forward to the time I learn something new from you.

Helo to everybody!

1. Radu Scutelnicu
2. Managing Director
3. Consultancy and Training
4. Arcadia Consulting srl, Bucharest, Romania
5. 15 y of Project Management, 5 y of Process Management, 3 y of Six Sigma

Something to change..hmmm..in Romania: Definitely the clients mentality; in larger sense the management mentality.

best regards,
Radu

1. Name: Pierre Smit
2. Water Care Technologist also responsible for the Integrated Quality and Environmental System, currently preparing for OHSAS 18001
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Water & Wastewater Treatment
4. Company you work for and location: Private Utility Company
5. Length of time in quality function: 7 Years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Continual Improvement
7. Your pet peeve in quality:
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?:

I have learned so much from this website.

Pierre Smit

:bigwave: Welcome, Radu & Pierre!:bigwave:
Thanks for joining and keeping us a truly global site. Seems to me there ought to be some quality folks in those Antarctic research stations. That continent seems to be the only one not represented here in the Cove! We need some outreach!;) (Maybe they are on summer vacation:rolleyes: )

Name
1. Christopher H. Moore (I prefer Chris ;)

Job Title or explanation of what you do
2. Thats a tuff one since I got terminated for changing the background on a PC on November 29th and start at a new job December 9th. lol I applied as a QA Technician, does that help? =)

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

Company you work for and location
4. See note 2. ;p Hopefully I'll become permanent. I believe I can fill this position. It's based in Kentucky

Length of time in quality function
5. 3yrs

Something personal that sets you apart
6. I can learn things really quick, and apparently find a job doing the same thing with the same pay within a week of being terminated.

Your pet peeve in quality
7. Lazy Co-workers. I absolutely hate it when my co-workers "At my last QC position" would stand around and talk all day while work piled up. We had a rule that if all the work wasn't done, we didn't go home.

If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
8. Replace all old equipment with new up to date equipment.

1. Name : Abdullah Ansari
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : Assistant Manager Systems
3. Industry you're in or have been in : Automotive
4. Company you work for and location : Birla Perucchini Ltd. India
5. Length of time in quality function : 11 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart : Very good with Microsoft Excel, Can handle top management responsibilities.
7. Your pet peeve in quality : Unfocused Top management
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Will educate each & every top official to gain & retain profits for my organisation

I would also like to welcome you all.

I think that you will find that people here are willing to help but please try to help yourselves first.
Remember that at the bottom of the page are references to similar discussions which could provide an answer.

Thanx Howard, Thats purrty much what I have been doing with the new job I will start tomorrow. They use vernier calipers, so I pulled out one of my old QC inspection books "(C)opywrite 1977 :mg: " I've also been poking around the file base here and found alot of helpful info. =) If anyone else happens to read this and needs some basic visual to help them out with vernier readings, [click here (http://roger.phy.unp.ac.za/frames/Programme2000/Physics/OnlineExercises/IntroVernier/intro2.html)]

Here's my attempt:

My name is Chris Watson.
I'm employed as a QA Specialist (middle manager), previous titles include SQA Engineer, APQP Eng and just the general QA Engineer. I lead a team of quality profesionals. Our primary goals are continued certification - TS16949, ISO9000, ISO14001 and CE marking, undertaking of the internal audit programme and support for all business processes to ensure effectiveness and continuous improvement.

I'm currently in the steel industry, based in Newport and Port Talbot in Wales (United Kingdom). I have previously have had 15 years experiance with tier 1 automotive suppliers, where my customers have been German / German owned or Japanese. I've travelled extensively through Europe (Germany - Baden / Bavaria, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, France, Switzerland, Austria and the Czech Rep), North America (Ohio, Mich and Ontario) and Japan (Nagoya and Toyota city), and I speak a good level of German.
Personal interests are mountainbiking and beers of this world.

My pet peeve in quality is how organisiations make quality complicated mainly by the use of terminology that frightens the life out of non quality based people. And if I could I would give the tier 1 - tier 2 supplier base a much louder voice to force the OEM's to commonise global working practices / customer requirements - can you imagine the cost benefit this could possibly bring?

Look forward to hearing from some of you.


:lmao:

Good Morning; here my personal overview
1. Name
Wolfgang Sonntag
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Management Representative Quality System
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Automotive Industry Tier 1
4. Company you work for and location
Johann Hay, Germany
5. Length of time in quality function
18 Years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Paper-warfare
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Not more paper than necessary

Hi,

1. My name is Ivan
2. I am a Quality Manager.
3. I am in the Electro/Mechanical Industry.
4. We manufacture for automotive industry.
5. Cable Technique is the company name and if you were looking for us,
you would find us in Johannesburg South Africa.
6. I have been in Quality since 1986.
7. What ever I handle must work first time.
8. Process owners who shirk responsibility.
9. Take the word 'Quality' out of Quality.

Hi, folks, and welcome!!!

Sonntag, "paper warfare"? I've never heard it called that before. That is a hilarious phrase to describe a not so hilarious problem....

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 Major B V naik
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do- I am QMS & EMS Lead Auditor
3. Industry you're in or have been in-I am empaneled as LA with many reputed certification bodies such as BSI,ABS & AQSR
4. Company you work for and location-As meintined above I am empeneled LA
5. Length of time in quality function-I am inthis field for last 8 years i.e. since I left the Army in 1994
6. Something personal that sets you apart-I am very sincere. I want to learn & contribute to better the world
7. Your pet peeve in quality-Quality must start from personal level. Whatever you do as individual must be of highest quality.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?-I will motivate to follow my principle

Major B V Naik
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See you down life's highway!

Eric

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

What I have explained above are the points specified by you. Additional information I want to highlight is that I am an ex-Army officer. I took retirement after 21 years service in the Army. My aim was to do something what I like & it must also be constructive & give me job satisfaction. In view of this I decided to get into field of quality. I am very fond of reading & learning new things. In years to come I plan to train in the field of FSMS & OHSAS. I was born on 14th July 1951. I have two post graduate degrees in Finanacial management. During my service days I also attended prestigious course at DSSC Wellington for which I got M Sc in Defence Studies. Presently I am self employed as as emppeneled Lead auditor for may certification bodies. My favourite hobbies are reading & listening to indian classical music. do the audits with the aim adding value to the auditee organization

I am not new to this forum. Been in here since 2005. But I am a Quality and Environmental professional, just browsing around.

Thanks for the welcome

DMP06

Hi,,

1. My name is David Hsu
2. Plant Site Director
3. Mobile Phone manufacturing
4. ODM factory in Taiwan, got early retirement 6 months ago.
5. 7 years in RD (mechanical/product design), 6 years in production engineering, 5 years as mfg management.
6. If I could change the world of quality, I would setup good training statisticall courses for all the engineers , include RD, PE, QA, QC.. so that all of us can on the same page to communicate.

My degree is in mechanical engineering.


David

Hi Everyone!

My name is Linda and I'm a QC Analyst for a start up biotech company in San Diego. I graduated from a university in '03 and have been in Quality for the last 3 years.

My first "quality" project was performing a 510K study for a medical IVD product. I also wrote the report and the product was approved by the FDA. So began my career in Quality. I also have cancer. I was diagnosed when I was 24.

One pet peeve is the lack of respect Quality gets. If something goes wrong, it's always quality's fault.

I agree with many of you. If I could change the world of quality, I would have everyone rotate to see what it's like to do another person's job.

Thank you everyone for sharing your advice and knownledge. I have lots and lots to read and learn. :bigwave:

Hi there, I'm Siegfried Schmitt, working for GE Healthcare as the global Quality Director in IT
I started off as a production chemist in Fine Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals manufacture in 1989, then spent several years as consultant before joining Amersham, which is now part of GE. My office is in Amersham near London, UK, but I travel quite a bit, and my team is located on 3 continents.
When I'm really bored sitting in hotel rooms I tend to write articles or books.
I get really annoyed when people don't update the Table of Contents in their quality documentation.
My wish is that we'd use more automated tools to manage quality.

hi folks,

This is Kiran Sridhar, Design Engineer working in GE Healthcare.

Kiran

:applause: :applause: Hello to everybody, i come from china, i like this website ,it can provid something which i need

Name: danrey

TKS!

A BIG welcome, to all newcomers. Enjoy your visits, and participation

1. Kyle Walls
2. Administrative Assistant to the President of my company.
3. Manufacturing, Precision CNC machining
4. CAL Precision, Inc.; Riverside, CA (www.calprecision.com)
5. Too early to think about this question... need more coffee first! Like another on this thread, I am young (27) and offered the position of being responsible for getting my company up to speed on ISO 9001: 2000. And am learning as I go. All of the businesses I have worked for in the past have already been registered, so I am quite familiar with how it all actually works. I have just never had to "write" any of it myself.
6. My pet peeve... right now is, not getting anywhere on getting answers for pressing question I have with ISO certification/registration.
7. What I would change: Everyone's understanding, here at my company, of what ISO actually is.

Glad that I found this website. Seems like I will get all of my questions answered here!!

My name is Tuan Tran. I'm a QA manager for a metal stamping company in WI. We make precision stamping and small assemblies. Most of products are automotive products. I am not new to the automotive world. However, I am new to quality control. I have a bachelor in Mechanical Engineering and pursuing an MBA. I found this website very helpful.

Welcome to all the new folks!:bigwave:
One of the mottos I live by is
"Knowledge is power!"

The Cove is a great source of power for your life and career.

Hi all,
I am Khir. From Malaysia. Now I am developing a SPC system for a Manufacturing company In Malaysia. I still new in this forum and wanna to learn more about Six Sigma. Any one interested can visit my project or joint it at www.sf.net/projects/openospc.

Thank You.

1. Name

Clare

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

Quality Management Coordinator: management of improvement projects to better compliance and functionality of our quality system

3. Industry you're in or have been in

Pharmaceutical Manufacturing, but previously medical device and contract research

4. Company you work for and location

BIG pharma company in the UK

5. Length of time in quality function

In this role just 2 weeks, but in quality as a whole 6.5 years

6. Something personal that sets you apart
I'm always a cheery soul - always!


7. Your pet peeve in quality

a) Lack of buy-in from the shop floor.
b) Enormous hulking beast of a quality system that has grown over years and has the got the company so bogged down that they can't see a way to change/get out of it.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
It's such a bug part of all industry, universities should make it part of their degree courses (not stand-alone, but a module in each discipline) so that graduates coming to industry have an insight to what the quality function is and how it relates to the science of their role.

Hello folks... I'm Mahesh, a new user here. I'm Manager Quality Management with National Bank of Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Here's looking forward to meeting you guys/gals at the forum...

Cheers
Mahesh

Hello All,

I just want to start by saying what a great resource this site has been, especially for a newbie to Quality management and Regulatory affairs like myself. I figured I'd been lurking long enough and that it was time to introduce myself.

1. My name is Francois
2. My title is Quality Management Systems Manager, which is quite funny since I have no prior QMS or regulatory affairs experience, but I'm ready to learn!
3. I currently work for a company that produces medical imaging software for clinics and hospitals.
4. I won't mention the company name, but we are located in Montreal, Canada.
5. As eluded to in #2, I am new to this position (1 mth) and am hoping to be a 'quality' quality manager within 6 months (is that too ambitious?).
6. I can't really think of anything that sets me apart for now.
7. I don't really know enough about quality yet to get peeved.
8. The only thing I want to change in the world of quality for now is my level of understanding.

I have no burning questions yet, but with a surveillance audit scheduled for February, I'm sure I'll posting again early in the new year.

Thanks everyone for the great questions and answers!

-Francois

Hi Covers,

My name is Ed. My screen name comes from a paraphrase of an old saying -- yes, it's "Two Eds are better than one.":rolleyes:

I am an independent consultant in Quality Management Systems. My academic background is in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. My early experience in electronics and software design evolved into project management. Being a project manager made me aware of the need for quality systems. Since 1993 I have been working with quality systems in various capacities -- registration program manager, lead internal auditor, procedure writer, training developer and provider, process improvement team leader. My main area of expertise is ISO 9001; I also have worked with TL-9000, the Capability Maturity Model for Software, and the Baldrige Criteria. More recently, I've been exposed to CMMI, ISO/TS 16949 and ISO 13485.

I am semi-retired, so in between consulting contracts I have time for instructing college students in computer literacy, programming computers to play board games, playing soccer, and being a husband, father, and homemaker.

I believe that two people who always agree with each other have little to learn from each other -- in other words, disagreement is a learning opportunity for one or both parties. There seems to be a lot of learning opportunities in the forums, so maybe I'll drop in from time to time to join the banter.

-- Ed

Welcome to all the new users.

I hope you enjoy your visits and find them beneficial.

Hello ahh yeaahhhh my name is Jed
(I am a recoving Hillbilly, can we all get a group hug)

I work with Aersopace mostly, (you know launching animals into the air)

I spent 24 years with the Navy both activ duty, reserve and Govt. Now I am overseas working on an Air Force contact. I know I had to lower my standards.

Currently I am working on a Military contract for fighter aircraft, found this website and I think it is great.

Spent many years in and out of quality, but have been labled as one of those guys as and "A-hole" inspector. Hey I just like regulations and confority.

Well, being inbred, Elly Mae is callin me\
ya'll come back now:tg:

Hi and Welcome!! Things are a bit slow right now - The holidays and all that.

Recovering 'Hillbilly', eh?

1. Susan
2. Masters student in Human Resources but working on a quality assurance project of which I know nothing about (its 3 weeks long and we are 1 week into it)
3. Was in Hospitality and Tourism industry...now a grad student working on a project dealing with quality for 2-wheelers
4. NA
5. NA
6. I know nothing about quality management but am trying to learn as much as possible...very quickly.
7. Its hard to pick it up and run with it if you don't know what it all means.
8. Can I decide this in 2 more weeks?

Hello, My name is Khurram
1.Just started my career in Food Industry as a Graduate Trainee
2. Degrees, B.E (Mech), MSc.Engineering Management.
3. In a Lean Department for 4 months.
4. Location: South West UK

:)

My name is Madona Fergusan

I am working in Pharm Canada Inc. as product manager.
Company is mainly envolve in Hospital and Medical supplies business.

Currently working on project "ISO for Importing and warehousing

Looking some one help me to determine, what should I have to do?

If some one have templates for related business, I shall be thankfull.

We are situated in Toronto, CANADA

:bigwave: Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:

Sounds like some of you are struggling. Don't hesitate to ask questions. Things will be a little slow during the holiday hiatus. We'll pick up again after the new year. In the meantime, use our search function to find some of what you need.

Wes, well thank you for contacting me, I see where you are an Illini, to bad go Hawkeyes. My company is just starting to take ISO more seriously since they failed their financial review, now they are jumping through their bootstraps to try to comply a little better. I work with foreign military sales of fighter jets in the mid east. I am hopng I can get some help on performing internal audits, goal setting for the organization, and mapping. Well thanks again. Jed Figg "World Nomad

Folks

Name is Ganesh
Director Dynatech Furnaces a manufacturer of Industrial Vacuum Furnaces for heat treatment & brazing
Based in Mumbai, India
Seeking AS 9100 B certification for eventual supply of furnaces to upcoming aerospace companies and projects in India
Graduate Chemical Engineer and MBA
22+ years industrial vacuum furnace experience
25+ years in marketing of industrial capital equipment products in India, USA, Canada etc.

1) Hello everyone my name is Michael T. :cool:
2) I am a Quality Engineer
3) I work in the Point of Purchase (POP) Business
4) I work for FFr in Solon, Ohio
5) I have been in QA for 12 years
6) I have a strong desire to succeed
7) My pet pevee is the misconception other departments carry regarding quality
8) thats is a hard question have to think about that more..

Wow! This thread started by Greenraisin back in the not too distant pass is awesome!
Welcome all! :bighug: "A hug to you folks, from around the globe"

1. Marcus
2. Quality System Engineer
3. Previously textile manufacturing, now aluminum extrusion.
4. An Aluminium extruded company in Malaysia
5. A few months.
6. Hot temper that kills my sense of caring to my beloved one.
7. Quality management is just some sorts of documentations with no practical implementation.
8. I would robotize all the process flow. Eliminate human error.

Hi, I am new to this forum. And I have to say I have nt found any better site than this one before:biglaugh: . Let me introduce myself

1. Md. Al Bokor
2. I am an Industrial Engineer. Working with a small Apprel Manufacturing company. Our goal is to implement Lean Management.
3. 3 years
4. Sidko Group, Dhaka Bangladesh
5. 40% time of my job
6. Dont want to let go anything without a ?
7. How????
8. Dont know yet

1. My name is George Zhou
2. Supplier Quality Assurance supervisor and I am taking care of supplier quality survey, Initial sample and supplier development and incoming quality.
3. working in a manufacturing plant of Small gasoline engine.
4. Company you work for and location
5.4 years
6. I learned things fast and like I have an engine inside me driving me to learn new things and get improvement
7. same issue all SQEs have, how to get consistent buy parts
8. I am not sure. so long road ahead of me and vendors...:-(

Marcus, Md. Al, George and Richard
Welcome to the cove!
Just be yourselves, do not hesitate to ask questions or lend a hand. :bigwave:

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and thought I would introduce myself.

1. Chelsea
2. Quality Manager
3. MEMS inertial systems
4. MEMSense in Rapid City, South Dakota
5. 1 year
6. I don't know if this is really a pet peeve of quality but the fact that I get little input from some departments in the company is getting ISO taken care of.
8. Haven't been involved long enough to know what to change.

As I'm reviewing some of the threads I've learned a lot and hopefully will continue to learn from you all everday! Thanks in advance!:thanks:

Hi all, I'm new to the forum and thought I would introduce myself.

1. Chelsea
2. Quality Manager
3. MEMS inertial systems
4. MEMSense in Rapid City, South Dakota
5. 1 year
6. I don't know if this is really a pet peeve of quality but the fact that I get little input from some departments in the company is getting ISO taken care of.
8. Haven't been involved long enough to know what to change.

As I'm reviewing some of the threads I've learned a lot and hopefully will continue to learn from you all everday! Thanks in advance!:thanks:


Dear Chelsea
Welcome to Cove. At the outset let me wish you & all your family a very happy & prosperous new year. I like your positive attitude that all of us need to learn throughout our lives. In addition we can also be good friends.
Major B V Naik

Hi Folks!
My name is Michael Darby and I am a senior level executive search consultant (okay 'recruiter'....sometimes known as a 'headhunter'), I work primarily on a retained basis and tend to take on clients who are globally positioned, mostly in light industrial manufacturing, but have been recently indoctrinated into the world of Medical Devices.
Occasionally, I may need to post an active and bona fide position- I do not phish!
Home for me is beautiful Vancouver, Washington USA-just outside Portland and my clients tend to be in areas of the US OUTSIDE of the pacific northwest. Its just the way it is!
Hope everyone is getting the new year off the a great start!
Best regards,
Michael Darby
global+management+partners,llc

Welcome to the Cove, Michael.:bigwave:
When you get some time, we'd appreciate you browsing through these threads and adding any comments you might have from a recruiter's point of view.
Tips to get past the "gatekeeper" when job hunting (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=9325)
The Job Hunt - Care and feeding of references (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=19094)
Resume and cover letter - How good are yours? (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=10169)
Thinking about a New Job for New Year? (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=19619)

Hi. Just registered. In the thread, someone said the best QA folks have scar tissue from ops. I must be a good candidate for the best. Have a Chemical Engineering background working since the 70's in manufacturing glass, paper, coating, pigments, chemical testing equipment, and now medical testing equipment. I've been listed among the best in technical customer service and technical sales, but what I know about quality has been in bits and pieces. That said, I have a lot to learn. My current job in a small company includes a BIG chunk of quality. I want to put it together and fill the gaps.
Heath

welcome ChemEng,

Looking forward for you participation!

:bigwave:

Beverly Livingston
Quality Assurance Manager/Management Rep.
20+ Years Experience
Currently working for a steel service center and achieved TS-16949 and ISO 14001 registration.

1. Mary Winch
2. Quality Systems Manager
3. 1978 started in Aerospace Quality for Fairchild Republic, Grumman, Eaton EID, and Aerospace Avionics. When Regan came into office all of Long Island's Aerospace Contracts went west.
4. Presently employed by Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville NY, which will be Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions tomorrow - Jan. 9, 2007. Both companies are great and both were awarded National Medal of Technology. Symbol received it from President Clinton - I don't know if Motorola received it from Bill or W, but it doesn't matter
5. 29 years and counting - I started in Symbol 18 years ago when it had about 250 associates. We have over 5,000 today go to www.symbol.com to see our great product lines - we started with handheld barcode scanners.
6. Learning and sharing knowledge. I have been an inspector on A-10s, EF111s, F-14s, products and changed over to commercial industry - fortunately with Symbol we had great R&D and continued to grow. I became an ASQ CQA in 1989 (#01270), and RABQSA Lead Auditor (# 09523) in 2004, a certified trainer 2006 and have passed tests for TL 9000 and ISO9001 Lead Auditor over the years. Next will be Medical Systems, and maybe Aerospace. I've done many Supplier Audits both home and abroad and enjoy that too. I'm also Document Controller, and was Symbol's Lab Quality Manager when our Test and Reliability Lab was ISO17025 certified.
7. Resistance to change -
8. I will change the world in Quality by learning, sharing and teaching. I use Process Mapping and Process Turtles when I prepare my fellow associates for CB Audits.

Welcome to the Elsmar Cove, everyone! A lot of new 'faces' lately!

To quote Wes: 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.

Mary - Glad you called and we got you registered. I hope you find the information you're looking for and enjoy your visits here! Let us know if you need help (which goes for everyone).

Hello, I'm new just signed up and would like to start a topic on ESD requirements for automotive companies? Where do I start?

thanks

go to http://www.esda.org/ for lots of information and freebees. An expensive but excellent book is ESD Program Management - A Realistic Approach to Continuous Measurable Improvement in Static Control by G. Theodore Dangelmayer - one of the best investments we have made is in using continuous desktop monitors - light and sound indicatiors when disconnecting from workbench eliminates the daily logs.

Hello, I'm new just signed up and would like to start a topic on ESD requirements for automotive companies? Where do I start?

thanks

Well, you start by navigating to the forum you want to post in. Now, the question becomes Which Forum? Sometimes there are clear choices, other times a question may fit in more than one forum, and in other cases it doesn't seem to fit in any specific forum. Just take your best shot. If one of the moderators or I think it should be in a different forum we'll move it. Not a big deal.

Then you simply start a new thread in the forum you chose. See How To Ask A Question or Start a Conversation by Starting a New Discussion Thread in a Forum (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=18980) for details.

Other forum help is here: How To Use the Forum Software - Basic Instructions (http://elsmar.com/Forums/forumdisplay.php?f=86).

There isn't really a forum ESD shoehorns in, but the Other Specifications, Standards, and related Requirements (http://elsmar.com/Forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43) might be a good place.

1. Mary Winch
2. Quality Systems Manager
3. 1978 started in Aerospace Quality for Fairchild Republic, Grumman, Eaton EID, and Aerospace Avionics. When Regan came into office all of Long Island's Aerospace Contracts went west.
4. Presently employed by Symbol Technologies, Inc., Holtsville NY, which will be Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions tomorrow - Jan. 9, 2007. Both companies are great and both were awarded National Medal of Technology. Symbol received it from President Clinton - I don't know if Motorola received it from Bill or W, but it doesn't matter
5. 29 years and counting - I started in Symbol 18 years ago when it had about 250 associates. We have over 5,000 today go to www.symbol.com to see our great product lines - we started with handheld barcode scanners.
6. Learning and sharing knowledge. I have been an inspector on A-10s, EF111s, F-14s, products and changed over to commercial industry - fortunately with Symbol we had great R&D and continued to grow. I became an ASQ CQA in 1989 (#01270), and RABQSA Lead Auditor (# 09523) in 2004, a certified trainer 2006 and have passed tests for TL 9000 and ISO9001 Lead Auditor over the years. Next will be Medical Systems, and maybe Aerospace. I've done many Supplier Audits both home and abroad and enjoy that too. I'm also Document Controller, and was Symbol's Lab Quality Manager when our Test and Reliability Lab was ISO17025 certified.
7. Resistance to change -
8. I will change the world in Quality by learning, sharing and teaching. I use Process Mapping and Process Turtles when I prepare my fellow associates for CB Audits.

Welcome aboard. Please tell me, what is a process turtle? I could probably look it up but I'm lazy tonight and you did say that you like sharing knowledge. Please inform this slacker.:tg:

1. My name is Pieter
2. I am in the auditing department
3. Working for a company specializing in OHS
4. Interested in exploring training in OHS
5. Studying law and Corporate Governance (CIS)
6. Enjoy spending time with my wife, camping, ghitaar playing, diving etc.

Welcome aboard. Please tell me, what is a process turtle? I could probably look it up but I'm lazy tonight and you did say that you like sharing knowledge. Please inform this slacker.:tg:

Please excuse me, I've promised to be kind but I just gotta ask something.

You're a CQE and you don't know what a "Turtle" is?

Randy his profile says he is a QA tech. He is searching for info on becoming a CQE. Its nice to see you being nice tho.

Welcome aboard. Please tell me, what is a process turtle? I could probably look it up but I'm lazy tonight and you did say that you like sharing knowledge. Please inform this slacker.:tg:

Hello Howard - I hope attachments help - Best regards, Mary. I contacted wrong post via e-mail.

1. Carlos Lara
2. Quality Chief
3. Stamping (metallic parts)
4. Akiyama de Mexico (Japanese) Queretaro-Mexico
5. 7 years I enjoy all quality functions, its a part of my life.
6. Play soccer with Company team on weekend , Shopping with my family
7. To Make understanding all people the meaning of quality
8. May be a revision of TS, I don't like it.


Regards from Mexico

Dear everybody,
I am a new member. Let me introduce myself :
1 - Clara N.
2 - Quality Assurance Manager
3 - Working in Aerospace domain since 2000.
4 - Presently employed by a company providing aircraft equipment in Asia
5 - Mechanical Engineer (1990), Quality Controller, Quality Consultant (1999) , Quality System Management Lead Auditor certified by IRCA in 2003
6 - Shopping, cooking
Very pleased to work and to learn from all of you.
Have a nice day.

:notme: Everything always works out
1. My name is Ken Baas
2. EHS / HR / IMDS / IA / PE
3. Automotive Tier 1, 2, 3
4. Unique Fabricating Inc. (Auburn Hills, Michigan)
5. This is my sixth year in the QA realm
6. What sets me apart? The ability to do so many jobs within the organization
7. Pet Peeve, The amount of paperwork!
8. If I could change QA.... I would take out the human element

Hello Howard - I hope attachments help - Best regards, Mary. I contacted wrong post via e-mail.

Thanks for the attachments Mary - I am another who didn't know what a Turtle Diagram was. When I was a QE in a past life, Turtles hadn't been "invented" yet. Now I get it! {I hope Randy's not looking...}:o

BTW, in your first attachment you have the following statement;
There is an urban myth that procedures must spell out everything in minute detail “... in case someone falls under a bus”.
Our most recent ISO Auditor's favorite version of this "urban myth" was - "...in case someone gets run over by a lottery ticket".:lol:

...just thought I'd share that thought.

Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:

1. Mark Bradley
2. Quality System Administrator
3. Food Industry
4. AmeriQual Foods Evansville IN
5. 30 years
6. I am very good at documentation and auditing, and I enjoy doing both. Weird HUH!
7. I can't stand it when someone says "I just know how to do that"
8. Improve the quality standardization systems.

:thanx: Mark

Hello All,
Tom Bloomer
Quality Systems Manager
Austin, Texas
Have worked:
USMC
Aluminum foundry, airset and permanent mold
Epoxy Casting
Machining
Warehouse / Distribution
Great site, great people, ton of knowledge here.
Thanks,
Tom

Hi, my name is Sophia I am at the present time implementing ISO900:2000 and ISO 13485 in an NGO which does only project management for IVD. They outsource developement but they contol the whole process.

I have registered to this forum to get help as I am still a novice in the field.

(((Can my name be changed to Neil V. instead of Milton Mfg.?)))


Greetings All,

So happy to find this site. I could spend days and days reading up. A brief intro......

1. Neil V.
2. IT/Project Manager
3. Tier I Auto (Naturally!) Supplier. 60+ emp. "Do-It-All Job Shop"
4. Milton Mfg., Detroit, MI
5. 4 months, currently I am our Internal Auditor
6. Enjoy Travelling, Going to Germany in Feb. of '07!
7. I'll skip 7...
8. Create 1 standard (maybe call it "WorldStandard:2007") and have business specific standards as supplements. A for automotive, B for beef, C for cheese, etc.

1. My Name is JUNGA
2. SCQA : Supplier Chain Quality Assurance
3. I'm in Thailand and Industry about computer.
4. My company work for computer 's accessories and location are south-east asia.
5. Almost 4years in quality function
6. Theater and sleep.
7. Fake for good quality of product.
8. Do the right thing at the first time.

Welcome all of you. Looking forward to seeing you in the discussions(((Can my name be changed to Neil V. instead of Milton Mfg.?)))Fixed... (That has to be the earliest user name change in Cove history, btw. :D )

/Claes

Was thrilled to find this site, it has been very useful to me.I am not in Quality but co ordinate IT related issues for the company, and deal with systems. 1. Name, as above
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:- ICT Co Ordinator
3. Industry you're in or have been in:- Steel Manufacturing, medical, abrasives
4. Company you work for and location: Steel co in Ireland
5. Length of time in quality function:- NA
6. Something personal that sets you apart:- I am very frank
7. Your pet peeve in quality:- Communication between Quality and staff
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?:- Increase peoples ability to communicate

Thanks for the great info

:bigwave: Hallo,

just some brief about me:

1. My Name is Mario
2. Quality Manager for a little automotive company
3. I'm in Italy, near Milano
4. My company manufactures air filter element for air intake system(OEM autovehicle part)
5. 10 years in quality function, more as consultant
6. Play sax and trumpet
7. Plan more from first step till the end of every operation made
8. More communication with customers!

Ciao Mario Bene venuto a elsmar. Stai bene qui. Fano tutti i il demando que voui.
Io sono stato in Italia da 1974 a 1978 e' poi 1985 hanno dimenticato come scrive in Italiano.
Saluti Dean

1. Bharath B S
2. Engineer, ECU Software Development, Body Electronics
3. Automotive Electronics.
4. Robert Bosch India Limited, India
5. 2 years in Software Development with high quality of Work Product.
6. Traveling, Photography
7. We in quality can sometimes be arrogant, we skip some things.
8. As of now apply DRBFM to my next project and see the consequences.

Hi! Where to start? The demographic data is below. I expect to learn alot and help a bit with the discussions here.

1. Wells Horton
2. Systems Manager
3. Pharmaceuticals
4. multi-national company. My location - Upstate New York
5. IT related quality activities for almost two decades
6. What exactly is a Systems Manager?

Welcome onboard to all the newcomers...don't forget about the buffet on the Promenade Deck, served daily from 4pm - 7pm. ;)

6. What exactly is a Systems Manager?

This is not the forum to answer questions such as this, but if hopefully my response will either answer your question or point you in the right directon for posting the question in the proper forum.

A Systems Manager can mean one of two things, depending on the context in which it is used:

(1) IT related...responsible for managing information technology aspects (hardware and/or software), including staff, contractors, programming, etc.

(2) Business Management Systems related...responsible for managing the ongoing development and evolution (aka improvement) of the BMS tools which could include concepts such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001, ISRS, Sarbanes-Oxley, TPM, TQC, etc.

If you're looking at the acronyms and terms in (2), then odds are you're really (1). ;)

Welcome Wells or is it Horton? :bigwave:

I think he was being facetious – I checked his Profile that’s his title.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. My job title is Systems Manager and I hear countless times, “What is a Systems Manager.” My other stock answer to what I do is play in the space where IT and QA overlap.

Wells

Nano Nano,
Glad to finally registered, I've looked into the threads and have been a great help in developing our ISO 9001:2000 documentation.

Situated over here is Hollywood North (that would be TORONTO, CANADA). Just 2 hours north from Buffalo New York for the geograpically challenged.

Looking forward to discuss and able to contribute.

Cheers you all!

EtobiLad :tg:
Guess its time to update the post here, just for fun. Looking back on what the cove had meant to me and briefly fill the thread by greenraisin since I have not done that.

Rene
QMS Coordinator, lone ranger :frust:
Mould making Industry
Been in quality since 2003 (QS9000), off and on due to wearing other hats within the company
I like Randy's comments. Check mine under profiles
Who gave this word a bad name anyhow?
Improve yourself, why go for the stars.

Where can you find or learn, apply ideas from such a broad and limitless as people minds and we have demonstrated it here at the cove. Perhaps start a thread on the "most memorable experience here on the cove".. :bighug:

Please excuse me, I've promised to be kind but I just gotta ask something.

You're a CQE and you don't know what a "Turtle" is?

Just to get you caught up. I made cut score for the CQE on December 2, 2006. It is well earned. Most of my quality background is in metrology and statistics. I was a technician on the production floor for many years. The company I was working for began it's "ISO Implementation Initiative" in 1995. I was scheduled for auditor training sometime in the middle of June 1995. On June 6, 1995 I was in an automobile accident and I have spent most of the last eleven years recovering from a traumatic brain injury.

I was once told that the first step in learning was to admit ignorance. This is what I have done. I had seen and used diagrams like the ones that winchm posted but I had never called them turtles. Forgive me if my question was too basic for this forum.

If you are interested in more details of my indoctrination in the world of quality, you might look for Quality Control and Brain Damage. It will be in the Quality in the First Person column of Quality Progress. I believe that the editor told me the March 2007 issue.

Forgive me if my question was too basic for this forum.

My personal apologies. Your question is not too basic for this forum. Basic questions are welcomed by everyone.

Don't pay any mind to Randy. It's Randy's habit to jump the gun now and again, and make invalid assumptions.

Thanks Marc. Basic questions are welcomed by everyone.
I ask a lot of basic questions still and I might have once called them things turtles, I don't remember. You forget lots of things if you hit your head hard enough. I remember when I found out for sure that the nice lady that brought me banana pudding on Sundays really was my mother.:tg:

Maybe someone should show Randy what happens when you assume too freely. (I would, but the censor blocked me, maybe a exception could be made for this case)

:thanx: Both BVQi and SAI Global (XLP) training used the term Turtle in ISO9001 Process Audit Training sessions - it is based on the foot print pattern blocks. I'm not sure it was always called "Turtle" some others call them process maps. I think this discussion thread is tied into another one. As for Randy - I'm pretty sure he is one of Uncle Sam's Magnificent Children and they tend to be a bit harder then most of us. If you check some of his other responses you'll see he does contribute to the information bank so chalk this one up - The only dumb question is the one not asked. Way to go with the CQE - I look forward to March QP article.:applause:

:thanx: Both BVQi and SAI Global (XLP) training used the term Turtle in ISO9001 Process Audit Training sessions - it is based on the foot print pattern blocks. I'm not sure it was always called "Turtle" some others call them process maps. I think this discussion thread is tied into another one. As for Randy - I'm pretty sure he is one of Uncle Sam's Magnificent Children and they tend to be a bit harder then most of us. If you check some of his other responses you'll see he does contribute to the information bank so chalk this one up - The only dumb question is the one not asked. Way to go with the CQE - I look forward to March QP article.:applause:

Bharath B S
Engineer
Automotive
Robert Bosch India Ltd, Bangalore
ECU Software Development for about 2 years

Hi folks,

I am an old member with user id "sundarun". Unfortunately my password was rest and forgotten, coupled with a compromised yahoo email id forced me to create and visit forum under a new id.

My background in brief:
- About 23 years in Quality Engineering
- Currently working in a MNC in Supplier Development
- Worked in Truck mfg co., diecasting, precision plastic injection molding for auto industry and currently in undercarriage parts mfg co.
- Been a forum member for about 4 years now under "sundarun".

Thanks guys and ladies.

Sundar - I merged your user account and changed your email address for you, so now you have your old user name back. You should get an email about your password.

Sundar - I merged your user account and changed your email address for you, so now you have your old user name back. You should get an email about your password.

Thank you very much Marc.

I am now using sundar as my username with my reset password.

I assume that my earlier usernmae(s) will be discontinued.

Please confirm.

Sincerely

Sundaravel (Sundar)

Correct - it is gone. But - Remember your forum user name is Sundar, not sundar (form user names are case sensitive).

hello, folks.

1. Name: Davide Lodi
2. Job Title: Metrology Engineering Manager
3. Industry: semiconductors
4. Company: STMicroelectronics, Adv. R&D, Agrate Brianza, Italy
5. Length: actually, I am not in quality... see below
6. Something personal: growing fatter and fatter (sigh...)
7. My pet peeve: I'll come back later
8. If you could change the world of quality: as I said, i am not in quality, although working very closely with them. I am in this forum to look for suggestions on particular aspects of SPC (sampling plans and related statistic issues!)

Good Evening Team,

Let me introduce myself as follows:

Name: Scot Andrews

Job Title: Warranty and Service Administrator

Industry: Specialty Vehicle Manufacturing (I.E. funeral cars, limousines, mobility vans, extended sedans)

Company: Accubuilt, Inc. (Lima, OH)

Length: Twenty One Years

Something Personal: Dedicated to my family. Love to play golf. Enjoy sports of all types.

Pet Peeve: Micro Managers

If I could change the quality world: I would ask that businesses/corporations make quality their No. 1 priority instead of bottom-line profits. Manage for quality; profits will then fall in line.

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?

1. Dustin
2. Aviation Electronics Tech
3. Enterprise AIRSpeed Site Core team (TOC, LEAN, six sigma)
4. United States Navy, USS George Washington CVN-73
5. 4 yrs total. First 3 yrs with Enterprise AIRSpeed at NAS Pax River, Md.
6. My gas smells like roses
7. Absence of leadership, micromanaging. Everything has a constraint!
8. Solve world hunger.

I'm here to get the industry gouge. No eye poking I swear.

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?



I've used this forum off and on, so it's about time I joined it - I guess

1. Graham Kettle
2. Technical Advisor (means quality manager :) )
3. Rubber products - i.e. tyres
4. They don't like the name being used, but based in Luxembourg
5. in QMS since 1992 here, before that 12 years with the UK MoD's materials quality assurance directorate
6. ... patience with management (Dilbert is so accurate) :cool:
7. management wanting the 'paper' but but not willing to change their paradigms
8. After over 25 yrs in quality I don't see anyone changing, but if I could, it would be to forget the paper on the wall and use the discipline QMS brings.

Vaibhav
2. Graduate Trainee in Quality Management Systems
3. Engineering Construction and Contracts
4. Larsen & Toubro,
5. Well joined here after Graduation and just starting off. :bigwave:
6. My Smile is contagious
7. Your pet peeve in quality: "Being sidelined for the Bottomline"
8. Save Paper! and Get some discipline around.

Ed Miller
Kinyo Virginia, Inc, Newport News Virginia
28 year retired US Air Force Chief Master Sergeant
spent time in Aircraft Maintenance and QA, Last position was in process improvement
Kinyo makes offset printing blankets. We are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified

Hi,

1. My name is Kathy.

2. I work for a up and coming company so I wear several hats, Document Control, Procurement, Inventory Control, and recently asked to develop a quality system using ISO.

3. I work for a company the developed and manufactures a machine that uses liquid nitrogen at very high pressures from a portable skid as a cleaning and cutting tool without secondary waste.

4. NitroCision, Idaho Falls

5. 2 months

6. I graduated from college in business medical. I know nothing (other than first hand about manufacturing or quality, but I am not afraid to ask questions or put in long hours.

7. People telling you what quality ISO and quality expects and they don't know what they are talking about.

8. ?

Before i introduce my name ..i would like to inform that my english is not very good.But im willing to learn and hope all of you can help me :)
1.My Name is Zuraini
2. As same with Kathy my job title is QMR for ISO but i also do other task.I only started this job less than a month!..Before this i work as Sales coordinator in other company and handle only sales dept ISO system.But now i have to control one company ISO system!
3. I work for PA system manufacturing company
4. Amperes Electronics, Malaysia
5. About one year !!
6. :biglaugh:
7. dun understand heee
8. World Peace!

1. Matt
2. Business Process Systems - QMS, EMS, Q1.......
3. Niche market sports car chassis, V.light and fast
4. Hydro, Worcester England
5. All my life, I just didn't know it
6. It's nice to be nice.:)
7. Last minute 'put rights' cos' the auditor or customer is coming
8. Make failure punishable by law, I think people will take notice then.:mad:

I've been offside for a while, but I'm back and if I can help I will, I know you all do.:applause:

Thanks

Matt

Welcome all newcomers. I am sure you will find answers to your question and will enjoy your visits.

:bigwave:

Wow! It's amazing how long this post has been going. Just found it so here goes...

1) My name is Jane Ackerman
2) Like many of you, I wear numerous hats. My current title is Quality Supervisor. I am the also the Gage Technician in one of our plants and I'm over both plant's calibrations systems as a whole. I also write all the Hertzler/Gainseeker programs for SPC data collection and crunch all the PPAP and capability data. I could go on, but I won't - you get the idea.
3) I am in the automotive industry - camshafts
4) I work for Asimco Technologies in Grand Haven, MI
5) I have been in Quality for 13 yrs.
6) I believe my diversity sets me apart from others.
7) My pet peeve is lack of personal responsibility.
8) I feel the world of quality would improve if we simply involve more people in the decision making process - if mfg. feels they were a part of the decision, they are so much more likely to buy-in and support it.

I am trying to figure out how to use this site. I am very new to QA and manufacturing and very excited about the belief of putting quality into our company. But I am sooo frustrated with employees just wanting to do the minimum to try and pass the ISO certification. I have so much to learn and I am excited about the answers I will find from all of you in these forums. Thank you so much for your valid information.

My name is Miriam Goodson and I am very new to quality. My background is customer service, but my company, Finger Lakes Engineering, wanted to revive their quality system and charged me with its resurrection. I am currently searching for strong, reputable training so I can pass my enthusiasm on to others!

Welcome all!!!

Don't be afraid to ask questions. And use the search function - there is a LOT of info here!

Thank you all so much for answering my questions. I am pretty overwhelmed right now. I am a little concerned about having to start over from the beginning. ISO can be confusing.
Thank you
Kathy

Thank you all so much for answering my questions. I am pretty overwhelmed right now. I am a little concerned about having to start over from the beginning. ISO can be confusing.
Thank you
Kathy

Kathy:
Don't be too intimidated. If you have a good quality system and just "say what you do", you'll probably end up with most of the bases covered. Don't fall into the trap of "papering yourself into a corner" with too much documentation and you'll be OK.

The Covers are all here to answer questions and point you in the right directions. Don't be timid about asking questions. You may get the occasional wisecrack,:notme: but you'll also get invaluable advise!:agree1:

Good Luck -Steve:bigwave:

Well...Hello

1. Name: John Huheey

2. Job Title: President, CFO, COO -Its a small company :o

3. Industry: Private Investigations/Consulting

4. Company: Secure Systems Group, Ltd.

5. Time in Quality: I am not a Quality Professional like most who venture to the Cove, but I spent 25 years as a Federal Agent investigating companies that provided non-conforming products to the DoD, so I have a good appreciation for the work that you do. Now I operate a company that provides investigative support to law firms that Represent Whistleblowers who file complaints (Qui Tam lawsuits) against companies supplying nonconfroming material to state and federal agencies. We also perform Due Diligence Investigations to assist our clients in evaluating businesses they are purchasing or considering for use as vendors/suppliers. In both of those activities we use ISO Registered Quality Auditors to assist in our inquiries.

6. What sets me apart: Hmmm, I guess its he fact that I view QA Systems in a somewhat different light than most people because I have seen how such systems can be abused to misrepresent the quality of products being produced. A QA System means nothing if company managers have no ethical standards.

7. Pet Peeve: The fact that most companies rely on vendor certifications as the sole basis for acceptance of material.

8. What Would I Change: Any system in which the QA and Engineering Managers work for Manufacturing or Sales Executives :D

:thanx: John

:bigwave: Welcome to all you newbies!

John - what an interesting business plan! I've commented on your post in the Ethics thread. Thanks for the contribution to our "body of knowledge!"

Following are the details:

1. Name - Dr. Mithilesh Trivedi
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - General Manager - Quality Assurance
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Pharmaceuticals
4. Company you work for and location - Calyx Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd., India
5. Length of time in quality function - In the Pharma Industries since 1977, worked in different departments at various capacities.
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 - Hugo Becerril
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Statistical Engineer Plant Master- Problem Solving
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Automotive
4. Company you work for and location - General Motors de Mexico, Toluca Complex
5. Length of time in quality function - 9 years.

hello sir

i ajm mukesh and i wnat some help related to ts manangement

Welcome Mukesh, there are a lot who can help you on here on TS issues. So do not hesitate if you have questions, they'll be too eager to jump in and lend a helping hand. Try also the "search" menu for topics or discussion that have been posted. It help me before getting engaged in any discussion. :bigwave: and oh yeah. :bighug:

1. Monica
2. QA Manager
3. Software development
4. Software company / Bucharest / Romania
5. I'm a beginer - 6 month :confused:
6. I don't know what to say - I'm just a normal girl :cool:
7. I don't know yet :confused:
8. I don't want to change anything now ... let's talk again in 6 month :rolleyes:

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?
The Details as under:
1. Name: GK Srikantan
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Design and Developement, specific to mass production and automation
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Automobile , Bearings, Lightings specially Energy Saving CFLs
4. Company you work for and location: Starlite Lighting Ltd, Nashik-India
5. Length of time in quality function: over 35 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Risen from a mere Apprentice on the shop floor to Technical Director of Ltd Company, all on my own effort
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Provide Proper Design Tolerance and Manufacturing Tolerance to achieve realistic and expected quality levels
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Work to Eliminate "UNCERTAINITIES"


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See you down life's highway!

Eric

[This message has been edited by Greenraisin (edited 18 April 2001).]
The Details as under:
1. Name: GK Srikantan
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Design and Developement, specific to mass production and automation
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Automobile , Bearings, Lightings specially Energy Saving CFLs
4. Company you work for and location: Starlite Lighting Ltd, Nashik-India
5. Length of time in quality function: over 35 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Risen from a mere Apprentice on the shop floor to Technical Director of Ltd Company, all on my own effort
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Provide Proper Design Tolerance and Manufacturing Tolerance to achieve realistic and expected quality levels
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Work to Eliminate "UNCERTAINITIES"

Hi - my name is Mary. I work in quality sytems at an automotive supplier. I have not posted before, just read a lot. I am looking for some very basic, easy to understand control plan training for the end user, such as line operators etc. This is not indepth training for those creating control plans. I have all of that. I'd appreciate anything you might want to share.:rolleyes:

Thanks!

Torger

Quality Lead

Hydrualics/Fluid Power Manufacturing

Eaton Hydraulics - USA

6 Months::confused:

I started in Customer Support and they have added a new position for improving broken process for Customer Support. I don't even know where to start...But have been thrown right into the mess.

My pet peeve is ideas never turning into an actions or solutions.

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Hi, I'm Cheri
I have never participated in a forum before, so it will take me a bit to get firmilar w/ how to work w/ it:o . so thanks for your patience ahead of time.

2. I'm a Quality Manager, developing the managemnent systems, ISO's TS, UL...directing the day to day quality support of this site. also experiancing the journey down the lean road... one subject i'd like to learn about, leaning the buracracy. I've been involved with quality about almost 10 years now, wow didn't realize it's been that long...what aride.:agree1:
3.A design & fabricator of packaging compoonents & custom molding from expandable resins. polypropolene, polystyrene..
stuf you find your computers packed in when you buy them. also do some automotive components as well. i have also had the pleasure of working in the fiberglass industry as well as Truck manufactureing, a few others as well.
4.EFP Corporation The elkart, in site.
5. i've been here about 2 1/2 years, hired in as a quality engineer, (not fully qualified) the 1st question during my interview was, if you could take my job would you?, my resopnce was , sure w/ some training & here i am. we were expecting a 2 or 3 year transition, but 6 months later, boom.:bonk:
6. ???
7. my pet peeve in quality is not really w/ quality, but how people view quality personal. we're either viewed as police dogs or snictches & are expected to have all the answers NOW.:magic:
8.i'd have to give this one a bit of thought.

My background in manufacturing began as a metallurgical tech. (1983 – 1986) working for a company that supplied tungsten carbide bits for oilfield drilling. In 1986 I went to work for an automotive company (aluminum wheel division) working in their metallurgical lab (1986 – 1990) doing destructive testing (tensile testing), non-destructive testing (x-ray & fluoroscopic exams), metallurgical exams, and industrial spectrometry analysis. I then went to work in our metrology lab (1990 – 1996) where I performed 1st article inspections, CMM programming, and gage calibration. In 1997 I began working in the engineering dept. (1997 – 2001) as a CAD designer, doing 2d drafting and 3d modeling using ProEngineer software.

In 2001 I transferred to our Kentucky facility to take a Design Engineer position. In 2002 a decision was made to close this facility. At that time I decided to change careers to the Health Field. I graduated from a Radiography Program in 2005, and took national boards with the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist (ARRT) in Radiography and passed, earning the designation R.T. (R). I then applied to a Radiation Therapy Program and graduated in 2006. After graduation I took my ARRT boards in Radiation Therapy and passed, earning the designation R.T. (R) (T). Due to a lack of Radiation Therapy positions at this time in Kentucky, I have accepted a position as an atomotive interior/exterior supplier as a CMM Operator/Designer.

1. Robert Wilson
2. Quality Manager
3. Heavy metal fabrication shop.
4. Hamilton Metal Works. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
5. I have been in quality assurance for about 4 months. We are a fairly new company.
6. I have worked in the manufacturing field for over 25 years and have moved fron helper on shop floor to supervision to programming plasma and laser cutting machines.
7. The amount of paper work required sometimes seems like overkill.
8. Standardize procedures and how things are done so every outside quality inspector is speaking from the same book.

Hello Everybody,

I am sapna and i would be thankful if i could get some help in finding template for requirements traceability matrix

regards
sapna

I am sapna and i would be thankful if i could get some help in finding template for requirements traceability matrix

Welcome, Sapna. :bigwave:

Towards the top right of your screen is the "Search" function. I recommend you go there and try to find what you are looking for. Or post a more specific question in the appropriate forum.

This thread is just to introduce yourself. We don't typically discuss management systems issues in this thread.

Hi All,

My name is Ron and I'm currently working as QA Group leader in an
Oil Company in the Netherlands. I'm some 15 years with the company
and I am responsible for maintaining the Companies ( European) supplier list and in-house technical standards. As such I coordinate and conduct plant surveys verifying the manufacturer's Quality system and technical capabilities.

In my spare free time I'm an amateur musician, who loves to fool around with guitars, keyboards and computers in an attempt to produce some (jazz) music. :rolleyes:

If I could change the world of quality, I would pursue the delinkage of cost and delivery time from the product/material Quality, as to ensure that the product really complies with client specifications.

It's great to see that there are actual good quality forums in this world, hence my subscription.

A big Cove welcome :bigwave: to all the newcomers.

:bigwave: Hi Ron if you're using Wireless (IS) Intrinsically Safe handheld computers in the oil refineries, and fields you may be using a product from my company that we handed off to a German manufacturer.

Sapna – I’m attaching a Matrix that may meet your needs.

1. Name:
Jake Curry
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:
EHS Coordinator - OSHA compliance, General Safety, Environmental Management Rep, Workers Compensation, TRWP Coordinator, DFWP Coordinator.
3. Industry you're in or have been in:
General Industry (Currently Automotive parts manufacturer)
4. Company you work for and location:
Takumi Stamping Inc. Fairfield, Ohio
5. Length of time in quality function:
I served as a quality manager appr. 4yrs ago
6. Something personal that sets you apart:
Once a Marine always a Marine!
7. Your pet peeve in quality:
Employees not following SOP and doing it thier own way.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
I wouldn't even know where to start.

Thank you,

Jake Curry

1.Name: Joseph Indian:)
have never participated in a forum before,would be intrested to discuss on standards and issues related to QSM 9001 14000 & OHSAS
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
I have been in printng field for tha 20 year in all dept and now in the Quality Assurance and MR.we are a size of 5
I work for a printing industry as a Manger QA and the MR for the company.My experiance is just 4 years in this field and i am not a Quality person by profession i have just learned it thru Exp
Your pet peeve in quality : sory i dint understand this
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
The world of quality? I doubt!:thanx:

Your pet peeve in quality : sory i dint understand this

A pet peeve is something that really bothers you (probably something that is commonly done) Such as, my pet peeve is people who think that the QMS applies only to product quality not our business as a whole.

Welcome to the Cove, Joseph, good to have you with us.

Hello to all! New to "The Cove"


1. Name: Sam AVERETTE

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Corp Quality Manager

3. Industry you're in or have been in: Injection Molding Plastics

4. Company you work for and location: Precision Southeast Inc. Myrtle Beach SC, Marion SC, Greenville SC

5. Length of time in quality function: 5 Years

6. Something personal that sets you apart: Pack leader for BSA Troop 323 and I have been known to catch a fish or two

7. Your pet peeve in quality: Non-conformances and paper work but don't we all?

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you: If there was some magical way to really know all the things that could go wrong with a program at APQP.

Thank you to all that post, this is a great site!

Hello, Everyone!

1. Name
John Nabors - Same as my username! What a coincidence!
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality Assurance Foreman / Internal QMS Auditor
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Manufacturing large diesel- and electric-driven water pumps for construction, mining, oil fields, and public works among other applications
4. Company you work for and location
Location: Port Orange, Florida
5. Length of time in quality function
Orginally began working in quality in 1988, but have gone pack and forth between production and quality for 24 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I play a mean game of chess and a meaner game of basketball. I'm also lucky to be able to type this because the killer tornado passed about a quarter-mile of my home in Lake County FL. :mg:
7. Your pet peeve in quality
"It's not our fault they're no good! Your inspector didn't catch it!"
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make manufacturing systems so robust I would have to look for another line of work

Attached is a picture of my girlfiend and I on Christmas morning (taken by her nephew with a cheap camera phone) assuming that I did this correctly.

My cover name is Giles Cory. (don't want to give real name just yet, my company is not sold on some concepts such as Lean).
Six Sigma Black Belt in Quality and Productivity Dept.
Finance Industry
6 years in Quality
My pet peeve getting execs to fully champion projects

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1. Name:
Stanley.Su, from China:agree1:
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:
Project Quality Leader, to handle NPI transfer.
3. Industry you're in or have been in:
EMS
4. Company you work for and location:
After a short-term working time in GE, i go back to my previous company to take care of my wife. Now i am in Solectron
5. Length of time in quality function:
round 4 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart:
To be positive for your life, you will be success
7. Your pet peeve in quality:
Yes, team work, employee's compliance for the SOP
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
I think it is impossible, change the quality concept of the people.:thanx:

Thank you,

Stanley Su

1 - JAK
2 - Quality Systems Manager
3 - Defense - Air, Sea + Space
4 - NY
5 - 20 years
6 - Like to breath reality into my job every now + then.
7 - Service personnel who say "Not a problem", instead of "glad to help", "my pleasure", after offering help or answering a question...etc...:mad:
8 - Add mountains to Long Island, NY

Hi friends I am very late in joining you all.Let us meet in gurgaon,Indai when possible.


1. Name
CN Duggini
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Minda Industries Ltd
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Leader QA
4. Company you work for and location
Gurgaon,new delhi,india
5. Length of time in quality function
6+ yrs
6. Something personal that sets you apart
spending with family in free time,playing chess,watching
movies,participating in quality forums,listening music
7. Your pet peeve in quality
customer complaints/satisfaction
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
I will ask elsmar forum to close the site...not serious please....

Welcome all of you :bigwave: A truly international mix as usual, I see. Keep posting. :agree1:

/Claes

:agree:
HAI FRIENDS,
1. Name : BALAJI.T
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : ISO CONSULTANT
3. Industry you're in or have been in :SERVICE SECTOR
4. Company you work for and location:CHENNAI ,INDIA
5. Length of time in quality function:2 YEARS
6. Something personal that sets you apart : THINKING,THINKING,THINKING....
7. Your pet peeve in quality :QUALITY PLAN ,PROBLEM SOLVING
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

:thanks:

Hi, I'm a new folk. TheWizard

I have been in the Quality arena for 15+ years. I currently work at a blood collection center in Wisconsin. Prior to coming here I work for a pharmaceutical company. Big, big cultural change!!!!!!!!!! Shock!!!!

My pet peeve in quality is any unnecessary redundancy.

If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Promote system thinking and organizational learning.

1. Kevin Gallagher
2. Corp. Quality Engineer
3. Contract Manufacture of circuit boards, system assembly, and cable assembly
4. LeeMAH Electronics, Inc. in San Francisco, CA. - Richardson, TX. - Hong Kong + Taishan Lihua China.
5. 20 + Years
6. I am me
7. So many views of the same issue
8. Ya right

1. Name:
Annie
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:
Internal auditor, auditing to TS 16949, ISO 13485, ISO14001
3. Industry you're in or have been in:
Currently in the automotive and non-automotive sector
4. Length of time in quality function:
I have been the quality field for nearly 20 years.(various jobs within quality )
5. Your pet peeve in quality:
Taking the time to effectively plan upfront will lessen the pain down the road.

1. Christy (Chris) Logan
2. Quality Manager
3. Medical Device Mfg.
4. Company = RespirTech Location= St. Paul, MN
5. Time in Quality: 12 years, started out in ISO 9002 & Ford Q1; responsible in my last company for the conversion to the new standard ISO9001:2000. then changed companies & Standard to ISO13485:2003.
6. Something personal that sets me apart: I was adopted in Germany & born on St. Patty's Day.
7. Pet Peeve: Previous employers lip service to quality. Lack of holding Mfg. Management accountable.
8. I like Dan's idea of putting everybody in someone else's shoes for a week. To see how there actions or lack there of make a difference. Cross Training.

Just found this website yesterday and now I am hooked.

1. Karen S.
2. QA something or other
3. I've worked in qa and manufacturing for a while.
4. STI in Tucson AZ
5. 15 years or so
6. I love to travel/wilderness
7. lack of management support
8. More management support.


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Karen :whip:

:bigwave: Welcome Covers - If Jak438 wants to see mountains on Lawn Guyland he'll have to settle for Bald Hill one of the hightest - locatin of Vietnam Memorial Park - or cruise upstate on the Taconic Parkway to the Catskills. I'd love to see the Grand Canyon Karen - maybe this year. Great International group joining this week - Come back soon.:cool:

Well, the canyon is certainly worth seeing. It's even better if you get a pass and just wander around in the bottom of it! I must confess to the fact that we did have a bit of snow this year. 2 inches and the schools shut down. It only lasted one day. There is still snow on top of Mt Lemmon, and it's just a drive up the hill from Tucson. :cool:

1. Name: Andy Sanchez
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: E.E. or make anything out of nothing. Risk Management; E&ES
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Manufacturing
4. Company you work for and location: Classified
5. Length of time in quality function: Always
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Multidisciplinary approach.
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Mediocrity
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: If it's done right the first time.... Improve upon it.

On a side note: I've been lurking for some time and figured I would finally sign in.

Thank you for having me on this site. AS:applause:

On a side note: I've been lurking for some time and figured I would finally sign in.Glad you decided to join us :agree1:

7. lack of management support
8. More management support.There is a lot of merit in those simple statements. Perhaps the current Step 1: Engage Top Management! (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=20488) thread could be of interest?Just found this website yesterday and now I am hooked.Yep. Not a bad place for exchanging hints and ideas, is it? :agree1:Taking the time to properly plan will lessen the pain down the road.Yes.... A continous topic of discussion here. My pet peeve in quality is any unnecessary redundancy.In other words: waste. I agree.4. Company you work for and location:CHENNAI ,INDIAWe seem to be getting many new members from your part of the world. Business still booming?

Welcome all of you. Now start posting, like Chris already did :D We are looking forward to your input.

/Claes

Ny, Milwaukee, Tucson, India, Kitchener, Bay area, St. Paul and Wisconsin

Welcome to the cove.. :bighug:

1. Name: Tim Behr
2. Job Title: QA Manager, bringer of hope....
3. Industry: House Manufacturing - assembly line construction
4. Company you work for and location: Westchester Modular Homes, NY
5. Length of time in quality : 10 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: I love farming
7. Your pet peeve in quality: NO TOP MANAGEMENT SUPPORT
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: Just do it right the first time...

1.) Aaron Lupo
2.) Corporate Quality Systems Specialist for a Medical Device Company-
RAB Lead Auditor performing audits on a subcontract basis.
3.) Medical
4.) STS, Rochester NY
5.) 10+ years
6) I drive 130 miles a day round trip so I can be abused
7) Putting things in place without evaluting the impact it will have!
8.) Have people use the common sense they were born with.

Hi Aaron,
I noticed you work for a Medical Device Company. I recently was hired at as very small start up Medical Device Co. We received our ISO 13485 certification but we have a minor in Software Validation.

I was wondering if I could pick your brain on that topic?
I am also new to this site so I am not sure how to take this to a new thread so to speak. If I could get some guidance I would appreciate it.

I have gone through the post attachments list on Software Validation but it seems to be a sparse subject.
I would appreciate any help on the subject.
Thanks in advance.

Hello,

My name Asakir, Quality Engineer in Frontken Malaysia. 12 year working and still learning. Please assist me whenever i need your guys help

Cheers

Hi Guys,

I'm Dhoy I do IMDS for my company for 3 months now and I've been trying to find a champion on IMDS for quite sometime so I hope I can find some here cause I'm a bit strugling in this.:lmao:

Hi everone,

I am Alan Sevugan. I am a practising Consultant. I have been involved in Quality and Productivity for more than 20 years.
I quite regularly visit this EC forum for broadening my knowledge,and, also to hear views from others who are involved/associated in these fields. I really find this forum very interesting and useful. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Marc and his team for their efforts.
Industries start off with the intention of producing 100% good quality units. There is no motive to produce "reject" units. However due to number of variables during design/manufacturing there is no way they can produce 100% good units all the time and every time. The Company knows that; the Customers tell them, they accept it faithfully; however here we find some smart CB Auditors just walk in and without even having understood the operations and limitations, give lectures on Quality based on Standards developed by the so called experts, without looking at the basics. What's most important is "the culture of Quality". Quantity is eqully important. CB's cannot use the same yardstick that they are using for an MNC be used for a small Company.
I wrote an article on Quality in the 80s for a leading English daily. I introduced a term "QUANLITY", Quantity with Quality. Because Quantity cannot be separated. We have to look at both in the same perspective.
My request here is the CB Auditors and the so called experts who drafted the Standards must actively participate in this EC forums and other similar forums and get the views and opinions to enrich themselves. Alan

1. Name: Dimitri S.
2. Job Title: Tool and Die College Student.
3. Industry: None.
4. Company: Not yet.
5. Length of time in quality function: None at all.
6. Something personal that sets you apart: I'm 19, and I'm the only one I know my age that lisens to country music. :cool:
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Too many standards. Based on what I've seen/been told.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Cut out duplicate standards, like removing the ISO screw standards (which arn't that good) and keeping the ANSI ones. Actually for that matter if I only had to use ANSI type standards it would be great!

Found this forum looking for ANSI B89.1.10 Standards (I know ANSI and ASME has them on their websites but at 41$ US for 26 pages it seems like its a tad expensive) because I'm interested in Tooling and Measuring building/repair. :)

Dimitri

Welcome to all the newcomers! :bigwave:

1. Name: Oscar Martinez
2. Job Title: Project Engineer.
3. Industry: Injection molding and Metal stamping
4. Company: We make metal parts and plastic parts for a several companies which make PC's TV's and other kind of products
5. Length of time in quality function: 1 year
6. something personal that sets you apart: I'm 24 and I'm like do exercise.

I do not have so much experience for this reason I am learned a lot in this forum.

Regards!

Hello every one,
I have recently joined a Manufacturing Company which manufactures heavy mining equipment. They have asked to me work for their quality team. I am completely new to quality. My back ground is electrical engineering. The followign are the goals for me for year 2007. What is thecompnay really expecting from me? Any books that I need to refer for this kind of Job? Any classes/ Traning I need to take? Please give me your input. I have lilttle knowlege in Quality and I do understand ISO-9000, but nothing much more than that.

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Question copied to new thread: New to Quality - How to achieve goals company has given me (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=20639)

:bigwave:
1. Name -
Harry M. Bacheler, Jr.
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Technical Writer, - Hardware, software, processes and procedures (Software Process Improvement)
3. Industry you're in or have been in
DoD, Hardware Mfg, Software Development,
4. Company you work for and location
Consultant/contractor (W2. with bennies), W2 (without bennies),
1099 employee, Contractor (invoice)
5. Length of time in quality function
0 time, however, I believe that the quality of the products that I have produced
have been commended for their quality
6. Something personal that sets you apart
Rapid learner, fit into many busines environments, work well with working
entities (internal and esternal)
7. Your pet peeve in quality
A lot of lip service in some areas
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make more people accountable for their work

hi,

1. My name is R.Kannan
2. Assistant professor teaching quality management.
3. Education Industry
4. SSN School of management and computer application, kalavakkam, Tamilnadu, India
5. 22 years in Electricity board. 9 years in the teaching.
6.Play cricket, table tennis and chess.
7. My pet peeve is the lip service given to quality
8. My degree is in Business Administration, Electrical engineering and law

Name : Noorliza Sudin

Currently working as Collection Coordinator in one of the biggest Food Manufacturing in Malaysia...

1. Name - Dorothy Mann
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Systems Coordinator
Basically I plan and execute all internal auidts of our TS16949 and ISO14001 System. I am also in charge of IMDS and Document Control.
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Automotive Wiring Harnesses
4. Company you work for and location - Tal-Port Industries, LLC, Hattiesburg, MS. We also have plants in Yazoo City, MS; Saltillo, Mexico; Fresnillo, Mexico; and Guaymas, Mexico.
5. Length of time in quality function - 3 years
6. I am relatively new to quality. I never know QS9000. I was hired to help implement TS16949 and I basically learned it by implementing it.
7. Your pet peeve in quality - Quality only gets the go ahead to change anything if there has been a written nonconformance from a CB.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? I don't know, I haven't learned all I need to know yet.

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?

1. Albert

2. Quality Manager - I am currently implementing a quality system at a privately owned company that has never had a quality manager or any type of formal quality program.

3. I am currently in the automated utility meter reading industry, but I have worked in many different industries including printing, automotive, fiberglass, and plastics.

4. Datamatic - Plano, Texas

5. I have been in quality for about 10 years

6. ISO background

7. Lack of ownership of thye quality system by everyone in the company

8. ???

1. Name: Marcelo Anunes
2. Job Title: Researcher / Compliance Engineer.
3. Industry: Medical Devices
4. Company: Institute for Technological Research - IPT - Electrical and Optical Equipment Laboratory -We´re a multi-lab research center, and my lab is performs P&D and safety tests.
5. Length of time in quality function: 6 years
6. something personal that sets you apart: i´m standar-addicted.

I´ve got an website / blog on medical electrical equipment safety - the Medical Electrical Equipment Information Website at www.electromedicalinfo.com - I don´t know if i can post the link here, but anyway...

Regards!