Dear Sir,
I read your thoughts. I could not agree more even though I am a CB auditor for nearly ten years. I am an ex-Army officer who took voluntary retirement after twenty one years. I on panel of ten certification bocies. I conducted ISO 9001 & 14001 audits.
However it seems to me that unfortunately you have met the CB auditors like the ones you described. But let me assure you that all of us are not like that. That is why I am interacting with you as soon as I read your thoughts. I would love to be friends & interact with you as well as other like minded people on any forum
Regards
Major BV Naik

Hi,

My name is Christina Cain and I am currently a Sr. Technical Recruiter specializing in placing scientists and highly qualified Engineers. I often come across job orders seeking out Quality Engineers certified in ASQ.
I was guided to this site in hopes if I post a few of my positions, I may get a response back.

Any referrals are welcome as well. It is a difficult industry out there... helping people is what I do- I hope I can get some help back.

Thanks to all!!

~Christina Cain
Sr. Technical Recruiter

:thanx: I downloaded the ISO9001/9004 draft from ASQ Web last week - it was also in the link you posted. There's great info on the link - thanks for sharing :bigwave:

1. Name -
Bob Ge
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
LPO - Lean Promotion Officer, focus on LSS projects leader and instill LSS culture in plant
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Automotive
4. Company you work for and location
TRW Shanghai China
5. Length of time in quality function
Not full time
6 Your pet peeve in quality
No comments
7 If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
"Cease dependence on inspection to achive quality" --- Dr. Deming

I wish all of you welcome to the Cove :bigwave:As usual, I see people from all over the world pouring through the gates. Fantastic, isn't it? So many people from so many places and so many different backgrounds, and yet with a common interest, and a craving for more knowledge.

:applause:

/Claes

1. Name: Dennis Jarrett

2. Job title: Facility Quality Manager - Oversee all of the Quality functions within my particular facility.

3. Industry: Aerospace wiring and cable and CCA manufacturer

4. Company and location: Killdeer Mountain Manufacturing, Inc. - North Dakota
5. Time in quality: almost 1 year

6. What sets me apart (condensed version): I have been an electronics technician for 19 years and did engineering for my present company for 3 years. I bring a common sense approach to the job and can understand and disseminate how the quality world really meets our production.

7. Pet peeve: Management being out of touch with the reality of their production floor.

8. What I would change: Make everyone realize that it is cheaper to build something right the first time.

Hi cove-ers. Here's a little about moi:

1. Name: Lisa Blanchard

2. Job Title: Well, I don't really work. I volunteer at this place and they give me a small stipend on a monthly basis :lol: . Ok, seriously, I'm a Standards Officer in the Certification Department.

3. Industry: Standards-related body

4. Company: Saint Lucia Bureau of Standards. My department does mainly Product and Process Certification and implementing ISO 9001 internally. We are located in Castries, Saint Lucia (that's in the Caribeban, if anyone's windering)

5. Length of time in quality function: 2 years or so.

6. Something personal that sets you apart: Hmm. I am pretty creative with my hands. My co-workers seem to look forward to my latest triumphs in baked goods (for a while I thought they actually like me, but now I know better).:D

7. Your pet peeve in quality: When people totally miss the point of implementing a QMS and focus on generating papers or on putting something together for an auditor. They forget the true benefit is the system functioning effectively.:mad:

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? I would like to see more diversity in the world of quality. :frust:

Hi all,

I am the new comer to this forum. Still i am a undergraduate studing for a Bachlor of Science degree in Industrial Mathematics.

We are the first batch in Rajarata University of Sri Lanka which is just a 10 years old kid among other sri lankan universities.

i was following a course in university regarding Statistical Quality Control and i found it very interesting area to study. so i intended to do a project relevent to that.

my project is to analyse and introduce a SPC system to a garment factory (sewing department).

i went to a garment factory and analyse data, and nowadays i am writing my project report.

i just searched for constructing xbar and R chart, and google directs me this valuable forum.
i think you, genious, will help me in advising me always.

remember dears, we are the first batch in reading for a degree in industrial mathematics. we have to clear the path as well as to show the path to others. help us in this regard. our main subjects are in Operation Research.

Jo
Quality Engineer
Aerospace but have recently moved into Automotive so need all the help i can get.
Kencom Ltd - United Kingdom
Been involved in quality for 15 years
What really peeves me off is people that assume, because im female that i dont like to get my hands dirty!
If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? I'd have all customers singing from the same hymn sheet, so i dont have to create different work instructions for each of them

Jo xx

Name: Jestine
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: I am working in education environment. Currently placing graduates on internship.
3. Industry you're in or have been in: IT training and development
4. Company you work for and location: curently Microsoft
5. Length of time in quality function: about 5 years, directly and indirectly
6. Something personal that sets you apart: I love working with people and enjoy their faces when they apreciate my assistance.
7. Your pet peeve in quality: I do not know what this means.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: Less paper but more direct and clear content.

1. Chris
2. Quality Engineer
3. Engineering (Injection moulding, CNC machining and assembly)
4. Interlube Systems in Plymouth UK
5. Here for 14 months, in Quality for 6 Years
6. My house burnt down last april
7. Monkeys not following basic instructions
8. Too much to list, have an unlimited budget to make absolutely everything foolproof!!!

Hi, I've been viewing this forum site over 2 months and I find it very informative and have very good treads. So, today I decided to introduce myself to the community and hope I can contribute something good to the forum.

1. Name : My name is WAN: I'm a Malaysian , 33 years old
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : My current job is as Six Sigma Black Belt and incharge on DMAIC projects and training
3. Industry you're in or have been in : Semiconductor Packaging
4. Company you work for and location : Malaysia
5. Length of time in quality function : 6 year plus ( but mainly in Six Sigma side )
6. Something personal that sets you apart : Like to try something differents
7. Your pet peeve in quality : NONE
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? To reduce NVA in quality control / assesment.

Looking forward to contribute :D :thanx:

1. David
2. Quality Manager (new to Quality Management)
3. Metal stamping, fabrication and now engine remanufacturing
4. Diesel Exchange - Missouri
5. 2 Months
6. The way I see things. I am a problem solver. Put me in and I analyze, make corrections and get the job done.
7. People jumping to conclusions about problems without analyzing the root cause. Asking “Why” really works.
8. Convince everyone to see quality through the eyes of the customer (internal & external).

Welcome, all. Hope you find what you are looking for!!!

Mahmoud
UAE
Ad Terminals
4 yesrs
work with other , share idea

1. Jiri
2. SPC, FMEA coordinator
3. Automotive glass industry
4. AGC Automotive Europe, Czech republic
5. Almost 7 years
6. I like statistics and to work with numbers
7. Less support of management in statistical process control activities :(
8. I would unify the different customers' requirements into one common procedure. :D

1. Name
Michael Woldahl

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Incoming Quality Team Lead

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

4. Company you work for and location
TRW Automotive, Marshall Illinois

5. Length of time in quality function
15 Yrs

6. Something personal that sets you apart


7. Your pet peeve in quality
Manufacturing first before Quality

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Manditory that Suppliers actually do supplier defect free material

1. Name
Frank Teleso

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality Assurance Specialist

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

4. Company you work for and location
Excelsior, Inc. / Rockford, Illinois

5. Length of time in quality function
5 Yrs

6. Something personal that sets you apart
???

7. Your pet peeve in quality
$$$$ before Quality

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

1. Name:
Derek

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:
Presently a full time student at Kettering University —GM Technical Education Program Master of Science for Manufacturing Operations. I’m also a member of the SME, ASQ and an ASQ certified quality engineer since 2005.

3. Industry you're in or have been in:
Mostly automotive. I’ve specialized in engineering solutions for the sustained improvement of quality and productivity. I’ve functioned as an IE, quality engineer, quality technician, and performed some quality system auditing.

4. Company you work for and location:
I’ve worked in southeast Michigan for GM and for suppliers to Ford, GM, Chrysler, et al.

5. Length of time in quality function:
I’ve kept a focus on quality engineering for many years. Academically, I’ve studied in quality science going on ten years now —there’s never enough to learn about quality!

6. Something personal that sets you apart:
What probably sets me apart is a solid background in the science of human behavior. I am very good with people and relate well to our problems which ultimately begin and end with ourselves.

7. Your pet peeve in quality:
So many spend a great deal of time emphasizing a process focus. I feel however, like Dr. Deming, that we must be wholly conscious of the greater system of processes if we are to be truly effective in achieving and sustaining competitive advantage.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
I feel there is too little education and training that should make up a core feature of every job function. Leaders too often forego education and hurry training, this having the devastating effects of which we are all too familiar. My modus of operation is to ensure that everyone functioning within the system has the opportunity to develop the proper orientation, education, training, and on-the-job experience necessary to achieve and sustain competitive advantage.

1. Randall
2. Quality Assurance Manager
3. Aluminum & Zinc Die Casting
4. Whitehead Die Casting, Gainesville Georgia
5. 15 years
6. Honesty
7. Quality takes a backseat to Production numbers
8. Remove non value added functions often required by various quality systems.

Hi, everyone, and Welcome!

Yes! Welcome to all the new folks.:bigwave: I hope the experienced ones among you will pitch in with answers for newbies to Quality and other "confused folks."

If you are one of the newbies and "other confused folks" - take heart! Many of our folks started out that way and now they are the "old pros" providing answers!

All this just from being a regular Cove visitor!

:cool: bunch of new Covers - Wes I can't find the discussion thread from a new Cover that responded on Process Turtles - he didn't know what they were and one of our LOL:lmao: Covers response was a little harsh. You and Mark came to his aid and I just wanted you all to know he published an article in March QP - his name is Howard Lee and the article attached is a true profile in courage. I want to share it with you and the new Covers.

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

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My Name is Mercylin
My company name is :Merind Automotive Pvt.ltd & Merind Die Cast Pvt.Ltd
Chennai (Madras)India
I am the Managing Director of both these companies
we are into manufacturing of Alu.pressure Die casting & CNC machined parts
& into Automotive Water & Oil pump
I am too happy to be associated with you all new enterents and existing members

:cool: bunch of new Covers - Wes I can't find the discussion thread from a new Cover that responded on Process Turtles - he didn't know what they were and one of our LOL:lmao: Covers response was a little harsh. You and Mark came to his aid and I just wanted you all to know he published an article in March QP - his name is Howard Lee and the article attached is a true profile in courage. I want to share it with you and the new Covers.Howard's post started here http://elsmar.com/Forums/showpost.php?p=178853&postcount=1398

At the time, Randy's comment reminded me of the story Bess Truman used to tell regarding her husband, President Harry Truman:

President Truman was noted for his plain ways and "direct language."

At a luncheon one day, Bess reported, some of the women approached Bess and said, "Oh, Mrs. Truman, we love your husband but his language is so coarse. He keeps using terms like 'horse manure.' Can't you talk to him to use language more befitting the President?"

"My dears," Bess replied, "it took me twenty years to get him to say manure!"

Hi everyone!
1. I'm Fauzi.
2. I'm an Assistant Production Manager as well as the Management Representative of the company. Besides in charge of Production, I also responsible for all the quality systems in the company i.e. ISO 9001:2000, HACCP, OHSAS 18001 & ISO 14001 EMS
3. We are manufacturing edible oils and specialty fats
4. I'm working for Kempas Edible Oil Sendirian Berhad, a subsidiary of the Sime Darby Group, one of the leading conglomerates in South East Asia. Located at Pasir Gudang, Johor, Malaysia
5. Working experience = 13 years, have been in charged for quality system for the past 7 years.
6. I like travelling very much
7. No idea
8. I will change the world by publishing my own standard for everyone to follow me !!!
:thanx:

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?

Welcome everyone!

Hello, All

Marc, thanks for assistance in re-establishing my membership after some three years.

10 yrs in oil and gas drilling/exploration, 5 years working offshore
20 yrs quality background
16 yrs producing power and distribution transformers for the electrical industry - company is a world leader. began on the shop floor and departed after 3 yrs as the Corporate ISO Administrator working for the CEO. Effectively implemented systems in numerous facilities.

Past 3 yrs Quality Engineer and Management Rep for one of the largest defence companies, our facility currently producing one of the future weapons for the US DoD.

Looking to get help when needed and also be able to assist the forum.

RAB/QSA registered Auditor (1998)
CQA (1998)
Baldridge Criteria Examiner - mulitple years

Plain and simple, I just love golf.

Hello everybody here.
I'm Wangwei from Shanghai of China.
I'm an QC in a relay production company for 3years. Do you know the relays of OMRON?
I think the quality is relation between company and customers, manager and colleagues, the partments in one company.
I hope to get some fresh quality information in this forums.

1. Name - Andy Peters
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do _ Contract Quality Engineer
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Mainly automotive but defence is becoming a big part of my work too
4. Company you work for and location - myself and others as they needed me
5. Length of time in quality function - In quality since 1988
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I also build custom motorcycels so the beared and tattos make me stand out a bit
7. Your pet peeve in quality - the use of buzz words - all buzz words and no common sence in alot of places:mad:
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Take all the managmnet studies people in quality and tell them to get the hell out of engineering and leave that to us engineers. Sorry has become a pet hate of mine over the past few years. I even had a business studies type person (MBA and no time on the tools) tell me how to weld :lmao: during a problem solving exercise. By the way I was at one point a time served welder

Hi all, here gose

1. Name
Peter Singlelton
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Currently Technical Production Opperator making pipe assemblys for air con systems. But have been asked to take on the roll of QC.
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Manufacturing and automotive industry.
4. Company you work for and location
Burgaflex UK Ltd based in Heywood, England. We do have companys world wide
5. Length of time in quality function
Just starting out my training for the roll of QC.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
Want to make good by doing what I can for the company I work for.
7. Your pet peeve in quality
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Do not know, not got enough experance yet.

1. My name is Rayson Li.
2. I worked in Delphi Packard Electric System Co. (Guangzhou Branch, China)
3. The title is Quality Engineer
4. For 5 years (to July this year)
5.....
6....
7. Anyway I would like to say "hello" to everyone... because this is my first log in this forum, I am very glad to know so many friends that all are engage in Quality -_- .. have a good day!!!

Hello All.
1. Name - Mike Tucker
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Manager, also lead improvement projects
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Currently plastic food packaging (10 years, 2 companies), previously automotive plastic injection and electrical assembly (5 years), previously appliance metal stamping and roll forming (8 years)
4. Company you work for and location - InnoWare Plastic, Inc US, Georgia
5. Length of time in quality function - 23ish years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I like what I do :confused:
7. Your pet peeve in quality - the phrase "we've always do it that way"
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? remove segregation of QA, Production, etc and create one big happy family

Welcome All!,
Looking forward for your comments and thoughts.
You'll find a lot of info's here, but i'll be glad to hear from you all.

Have a great day!

>>rey

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

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1. Name AngeloH
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
i am a SHEQ officer recruited by the Mondi Plastic Containers to impliment and maintain their QMS under the banner of iso9001
3. Industry you're in or have been in
previously 5 years in the automotive industry now palstic injection moulding
4. Company you work for and location
Mondi Plastic Containers cape town south africa
5. Length of time in quality function
06 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
evectively helped with the implimentation of ISO 9001 with 4 companies
7. Your pet peeve in quality
streamlining industry to world class manufacturing
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
most certainly

Thank you Elsmar, a wealth of knowledge and advise for free!
1. Name
Julie Lyons
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality System Manager - administering ISO9001/AS9100 (as well as everything else paperwork wise for the company)
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Engineering (Predominantely Grinding of aerospace rings)
4. Company you work for and location
Grindrite - Tyne & Wear UK
5. Length of time in quality function
6 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
Keen (Keane ) football (soccer) fan
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Costs involved in achieving and maintaining quality standards from the point of view of a micro company (6 persons)
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do
Standards to be written more clearly (maybe with a few examples per section!!);)

Hello everyone, and welcome! Let us know if we can help in any way.

1. My name is Naeem Akhtar
2. CEO
3. Engine Bearings, Bushes & Thrust Washers Manufacturer
4. Shahsons Pakistan Pvt Ltd Multan Pakistan
5. In Auto Parts Manufacturing Business for 25 years
6. Personal Humility
7. ?
8. Quality should mean effective management

My Degree is in B. SC. Engineering with MBA

Hi Friends,

I am PSSKumar from Chennai , India.

I am working as a Sr.Manager in a CG Group company

I have about 25 years of experience and i am specialized in Quality. Also i am exposed to Manufacturing, New product development and TQM.

I am now working on to monitor Cost of Poor quality in our Organization.

I am looking for an effective and easy way to capture the cost of poor quality and i am confidant that i will get lot of useful information from this Forum.

Thanks and Regards,

PSSKumar

Greetings All!
Ooh, I like the emoticons ---> in particular the 'mad rant'...'no pity' and keep in line. although the pity violin is a bit large.
Obviously I'm new on this forum, but I've been in the engineering or compliance laboratory many years and the calibration undertakings for several years in one capacity or another.

I presently manage a cal lab in the states, but we are internal only for the factory/service depts and ANSI Z-540 accredited. One of my to-do's is 17025 as we are seeing more requests for our products at this QS level.

I google hunted the topic of 'ISO 17025 Waiver' and found this site, but most of the 'waiver' threads are 2001. I will post a query on the subject here shortly.

I am hopeful to be of help as some of you will be to me.
kyle

Hello Everyone!
1. My name is David Silorey :cool:
2. I am a Sr. Manufacturing Engineer
3. We Design and Manufacture Evinrude E-Tec Outboard Engines.
4. I work for Bombardier Recreational Products
5. 1 year in manufacturing. 14 years as a Mechanical Designer.
6. I shave my head. Not that there is much growing on top.
7. It is not always seen as important to everyone.
8. I would require other departments to work in Quality to better understand the importance.

A big and warm welcome to all newcomers. Don't be afraid to ask questions and provide input.

:bigwave:

1. Mel Sanchez

2. "Quality Assurance Director", 1st time QA representative responsible for setting up a "Quality Plan, Systems, and Procedures" for "Fulham.com", "WaldDiversified.com" and "Professional-Products.com".

3. Aerospace, Govt, Mass Production picture fame manufacturing, and now Distribution and auto.

4. "Fulham", "Wald Diversified", and "Professional Products", located in Hawthorne, CA.

5. 1 week

6. Over 20 years experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Controls, and Supplier Quality.

7. Working "process and procedures"

8. Train and Instruct all departmental manager's in the concept of "Total Quality Management" with commitment.

1. Doug Storch
2. Engineering Manager-Black Belt Candidate
3. Aluminum Die Casting for 20+ years, currently in wireforming.
4. CFC Wireforms, Inc Batavia, Illinois
5. 27 years
6. Sense of humor/attitude
7. Talking the talk but not walking the walk.
8. Refer to #7

:bigwave:

Doug, Mel, a big Cove welcome to you!!!

hi everyone,
i'm Vefa ARIKAN, from Turkey.
i'm a research asistant in the "production and operations management" department of, Istanbul Uiversity, Faculty of Business Administration.
i'm interested in spc and this forum seems to be a great source for me..
hope to find many friends here...
unfortunately i couldn't find any forums like this...
thank you four your friendship and shares..

Vefa

1. Name - Stephanie Sullivan
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Engineering Analyst, Document Controller, Internal Auditor & as needed Quality Assurance Inspector
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Manufacturing of Rubber Products
4. Company you work for and location - Mid-States Rubber Products, Princeton, IN
5. Length of time in quality function - 21 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I am active Girl Scout Leader who loves camping and boating. I have 6 children and 9 grandchildren. I'm also only 43 years old.
7. Your pet peeve in quality - People who create procedures and work instructions but won't follow them - change them to what you are doing or follow them.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - Simplify! Write the requirements so that they are easily understood.

My name is Howard Houser, but I've been going by Chip for all my life. I was born in Sellersville, PA (Grand View Hospital), raised in the Bloomsburg, PA area, and now live in north-central Pennsylvania (town of Nelson in Tioga County).

I recently was hired as the Quality Manager here at Kennedy Valve in Elmira, NY. My focus is to implement a quality management system here, but until then I just run around and put out "hair fires" all over the plant! :frust:

Kennedy Valve has been in the area for 125 years and manufactures fire hydrants and water valves. We have our own foundry, machine shop and assembly area in-house.

Prior to coming to Kennedy Valve I worked at Lockheed Martin as an Inspection Supervisor for 16 months, at OSRAM Sylvania as a Production Supervisor for 13 months, and at Schweizer Aircraft as an Inspection Supervisor for 4 years. Prior to all that, I served in the United States Marine Corps for 20 years. While there I was a CH-46 helicopter mechanic and crewchief. I also ran a Planned Maintenance Department, Flight Line, and Quality Assurance Department. And for three years I was a Detachment Commander in charge of Marines at two American Embassies in Rangoon, Burma and Vienna, Austria.

I like to hunt, fish, play golf and read (John Jakes is a favorite). I play bass guitar and am a progressive rocker from the 70s! You'll find me listening to bands like Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Led Zepplin, etc... most of the time.

If I have a pet peeve in quality it is the "it's good enough" attitude that most everyone has. If the part had a print drawn for it, then follow the print! I don't care if it's a part for an F-22 or an ashtray. Aim for nominal and be mindful of your tolerances.

Now me!

1. My Engilsh name is Peace Wong, Wang Ping An is my chinese name. I come from the people's republic of China.
2. Lean Specialist
3. Auto Component & Electronic Industry
4. Flextronics. Located in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province PRC.
5. 2 years in development and 1 in Operations, 3 years in management.
6. Play Pingpong.
8. My credendum is: where there is a will, there is a way.

My degree is in Polytechnic.


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See you down life's highway!:bigwave:

Peace

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Hi PeaceWong

I hope you enjoy working in Flextronics

I am a Trainer and Consultant and had been to Flextronics ZhuHai in Year 2003 training VE for your Design team

Take Care

KT Chua:tg:

Hello KT,

Could you tell me what the VE is? Now I'm implementing Lean in Flextronics, certainly, you know that Flextronics did not know Lean before last year.


Regards
Peace :thanx:

Dear PeaceWong

Oh... VE Stand for Value Engineering. This is a Design Tool in which the Design and Development Engineers make us of this technique to design a product with less parts, more functions. Or same number of parts as in the old design but more function.

I though Flextronics had employed a Lean Black Belt in Y2003 to implement lean.

I also conduct training for companies in Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma in Singapore and China Wuxi. We have office in ShenZhen at NamShan.

You can look into the website ecciinternational.com/sg

Thanks and regards

KT Chua

Dear KT,

Sorry for my mistake. I don't familiar with this company before I joined in. You're the eldest specialist on Lean & Six Sigma in Flextronics? For past three 3 years, I worked as an industrial engineer in Delphi. You realize that there are many differences on lean between Delphi and Flextronics. Do you work in Flextronics now?

Regards
Peace

I have been a long time lurker on this board, and have found it a great source to spark thinking. A little bit about myself:
My name is Charles Scott and I am a Master Black Belt / Quality Manager for American Express. I am located in Greensboro NC.
I have worked my entire career in services, starting at Walt Disney World, where I worked my way through college (BS and MS in Industrial Engineering) including stints in WDW's IE dept and Finance dept. I have been with Amex 11 years, primarily as an IE, but involved with quality since 1999.

On a personal note nobody would ever guess that I am half Brasilian and love the music, food and culture of Brasil.

My personal pet peeve in quality is using quality tools to justify decisions already made, instead of using quality tools to unlock the potential.

If I could change one thing about the world of quality, it would have to be to make non-quality people realize that we are actually a fun loving lot. :)

Holla all, my name is Peter.
I'm a Quality Assurance Co ordinator.
Wires and cables Industry
I'm only three years in the business (yeah I'm green)
I try my best in what I set my mind to do.
Quality is free, but why do I have to pay to learn it huh!

Well I am a newbie at this forum, I was actually looking for a samples of IQA report form. Ours was under revision and I was looking for new form. If you guys could suggest where I could find one. thanks.

1. Name
Mar
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Docs. Controller
3. Industry you're in or have been in
-
4. Company you work for and location
phils.
5. Length of time in quality function
7 months
6. Something personal that sets you apart
--
7. Your pet peeve in quality
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8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
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1. My Name is Greg Pollock
2. Job Title - Quality Manager and OH&S Representative (but I am also the facilities Manager asa well)
3. Industry - Mostly occupied at the moment with Transport and Logistics, also conduct Auditor Training
4. Company - IFC Global Logistics and myself, Altona, (Melbourne) Victoria, Australia
5. Length of time in quality function - 31 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I have two daughters and a wonderful wife and I coach American Football here in Australia
7. Your pet peeve in quality - fads and the use of catch phrases
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Try and provide them with my experiances where management systems have saved companies for harm, including prosecution, and how it didn't cost them what all the scare mongers said it would at the beginning.

Hi.
My name is Odongo James
Job Title - Quality Environment Health and Safety Manager
Industry - Construction
Company - Spencon in Kenya (East Africa)
Experience - 8 years in the quality field

If i would change this world of quality - Would ensure that organizations appreciate that quality management systems are about business performance improvement and not just certficates

hi,
I am Anitha -Quality Analyst n a software company

Find this forum as very interesting and like to join here

I think we all will rock:biglaugh:

Hi All this is Anfield Red here!! (This is in reference to Liverpool Football Club for those not in the know)

I am currently applying for a contractor position in an electromagnetics firm so thought I would take the time to do some catchup on this subject as it has been some time since I have used ISO 18001 (or BS8800 / ISO 14001 Etc...)

Just to say what a great site and it looks as though there are some highly knowledgeable people out there - I will definately be returning to pick some of the brains - especially on the electromagnetic front.....:)

Nice to meet everyone... "You'll Never Walk Alone"

Anfield Red

Enjoyed the intros above...some familiar companies and industries.

1. Name- Jim B (IndySon refers to my status as oldest son of a USS Indianapolis CA-35 Survivor, the WWII Heavy Cruiser that took the atomic bomb to Tinian & was sunk right afterwards. Dad spent 4.5 days int he water, and luckily, survived)
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do- Quality Manager, Chief Cook & Bottle Washer
3. Industry you're in or have been in- Manufacturing, Fabrication & Assembly/Test, Military & Commercial
4. Company you work for and location- Prefer to keep a lower profile just in case
5. Length of time in quality function- Since 1982
6. Something personal that sets you apart- 6 foot Asian American...LOL...nobody can tell but they all look at me and wonder, "What is he?". In today's PC world, it's just not possible to ask any more
7. Your pet peeve in quality- Too often I discover "Manufacturing Rejects" are placed in quality (i.e., one is too many) both up & down the external chain from me. Bad idea, they can hurt you twice as much there...well, unless you ignore your quality people anyway
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Go to the "proof is in the pudding" concept. Instead of telling everyone how to comply with your quality requirements, expending great energy with systems definition & compliance inspection beyond bare minimum, we should all focus more on examining the results (the product) and seriously track results...then reward those who deliver a quality product (meets all requirements/specs) with more work and absolutely cut off those who do not get the job done. "That's all I got to say about that"

1. Name: Johannes
2. Job Title: Quality Engineer
3. Field: Manufacturing, Aerospace and Automotive
4. Company: USAeroteam
5. Length of time: Complete Rookie:confused: 3 Weeks
6. What sets me apart: Originally from England, 10 years in the Automotive
performance/customizing field. I love old cars (4 car garage full of projects
in varying array of dismemberment). 32 yr old Senior Mechanical
Engineering Student finishing up B.S. @ Wright State Univ. just getting
started in the Quality Field, Married with a little girl on the way.:D
7. Pet Peeves: Don't Have any yet.
8. Changing the world of Quality: I have no clue

Good day all!

I am somewhat new to this site. A colleague encouraged me to become a part of this forum.:applause:

My name: John Balderrama AKA GBE Johnny or TechTalentAgent

Job Title: Staffing Manager, AKA Human Capitol Specialist

Industry: High Performance Automotive (real…race car development)

Time in the BIZ: 10 Years Human resources (staffing / project management)

Special Talents: Team Building, Staffing / Recruitment and Training management in “Improving The Way You Hire”

Core Competencies: Automotive Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Niche Occupations and all those hard to find positions.

Interests: Anything with wheels. 0-60 as fast as you can. 60-0 as quick as I can. Vintage 70’s Sports cars / Road race

"Hire right, and manage your business...Hire wrong, and manage your problems"

Name- G.J.Tahiliani
Exp - 37yrs, in quality- 12 yrs
Present Job- QMS Auditor on panel(Retired from regular job after 37 yrs service)
Objective- To spread the importance of quality, and share experience of QMS
gained through years.
Hobby- Reading, music

1. Name: Wee
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Quality Engineer
3. Industry you're in or have been in: 2 years in semiconductor, 2.5 years in automotive
4. Company you work for and location: CSPM, currently "Driving Tomorrow's Technology"
5. Length of time in quality function: 4.5 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: Have natural curly hair, uncommon for chinese
7. Your pet peeve in quality: No one seems to find value in what we are doing

1. Name - Pawel (Paul) Antypin
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - now internal auditor previously quality engineer
3. Industry you're in or have been in - all the time automotive
4. Company you work for and location - currently HUF, Poland
5. Length of time in quality function - 3 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - I love hydropneumatic suspensions :biglaugh:
7. Your pet peeve in quality - nothing by now
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? mentality - do not be afraid to stop production if components are bad.

hello! i don't know what to say

Welcome ngokypnxuong!:bigwave: Now thats a real nice name if I ever saw any. I hope I got the spelling correct.:tg:

Name: Jason Leach
Job Title: Quality Consultant; Quality Manager; Business Manager; Business Consultant; Continous Student; Teacher; and a couple hun'red other caps
Industry: Business Improvement; Quality Systems
Company: Intlanzi Business Support, Tagline: Business Enabling Systems
Length of time: About 6 years in quality, although the cross over from management to quality is very hazy
Personal Trait: I'll never know enough, God gave me less hair for better cooling. I can never see things as belonging to one discipline.
Pet peeve: People taking things in isolation and not considering the full impact.
Change for the Industry: See above

1. Mike Fairburn
2. Business Systems Manager
3. Now in Construction, was in Aviation
4. Costain PLC, Warrington, UK
5. 15 years on and off
6. I used to be an Air Traffic Controller
7. Lack of Senior Management Support - we're seen as an unnecessary overhead!
8. Improve the salaries of Quality Managers :lmao:

Welcome to all our new folks!:bigwave:

Just a few pointers:

Don't hesitate to ask a question
Don't hesitate to offer an opinion in any thread
Be sure to weigh different opinions; none of us is 100% correct 100% of the time - often there will be conflicting opinions - it's the nature of an open Forum.
It's OK to "lurk" - no one will force you to post either questions or answers.In no time at all, YOU will be "old hand" welcoming newbies!

New to this forum and was also wondering if posting messages and replying to questions is a good way to study and get experience from this forum to write the CQE exam. Are other CQE exam forum members taking this approach?

Name: Sebastian Vlad
Job Title: Quality Inspector - coordinator, (BScEE)
Industry: Automotive/manufacturing
Length of Time: 3 years
Personal: I have taken quality as my mission to make alot of things better, including: advancing personal aptitude.
Pet Peeve in quality: Is this part good?
Change the world of quality, what would I do? -Everyone should be trained and made aware of quality regardless of their status in life. Even as kids when you share that jelly sandwich, you better make sure it is not overflowing or has too little jelly otherwise the other kid might not like it and he will comment on it and your friends will laugh and there goes the neighbourhood; just an example. Quality done the right way will make things better. Its impossible not to. I attribute alot of quality failures with human failure. "Fail to plan is like planning to fail"

The imperfection in humans: we gather information therefore we don't think with the same pattern of thought. I wish we were all robots... but that wouldn't be good either.

1. Name - Candace Phinney

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Director of Performance and Business Development for a small company in Florida; we provide third-party audits and monitoring to the workforce/social service industry.

3. Industry you're in or have been in. Currently in the workforce/employment training; have been in manufacturing and healthcare.

4. Company you work for and location. Focused Management Solutions, Corporate office is in Gainesville, Florida, but we have QA people in 4 other states.

5. Length of time in quality function. 20 years - YIKES!

6. Something personal that sets you apart. Saving up for my first Harley-Davidson.

7. Your pet peeve in quality. The lack of understanding that quality is (or should be) an essential piece of everybody's job.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Eliminate the fear that results from auditing and try to get everybody to understand that we are working with them as a team rather than against them to find something wrong.

:bigwave: Welcome new Covers - and Kyle if you're looking for ISO17025 info go to http://www.a2la.org/

1. Name - Candace Phinney

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Director of Performance and Business Development for a small company in Florida; we provide third-party audits and monitoring to the workforce/social service industry.

3. Industry you're in or have been in. Currently in the workforce/employment training; have been in manufacturing and healthcare.

4. Company you work for and location. Focused Management Solutions, Corporate office is in Gainesville, Florida, but we have QA people in 4 other states.

5. Length of time in quality function. 20 years - YIKES!

6. Something personal that sets you apart. Saving up for my first Harley-Davidson.

7. Your pet peeve in quality. The lack of understanding that quality is (or should be) an essential piece of everybody's job.

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Eliminate the fear that results from auditing and try to get everybody to understand that we are working with them as a team rather than against them to find something wrong.


Candace, You are missing too much fun sell everything you have and buy your HARLEY DAVIDSON NOW. Welcome to the cove.

Welcome all!!!

Ha ha - ok I'll do it!

Welcome to all the new members. :bigwave:

1. My name is Doug Zeeff

2. I am the Quality Manager and ISO Management Rep where I work.

3. The spring and stamping industry.

4. I work for Southern Spring & Stamping in Venice, Florida.

5. I have been with SS&S for 33 years. I started out as a draftsman, turned
tool & die work, then went into CNC programing for turret punch presses.
In 1996 the "asked" if I would take over the Q.A. department because they were running a 7%+ reject rate.

6. My hobies are backwater kayaking in the swamps and rivers in Florida and
raising and training Labrador Retrievers.

7. My pet peeve is management that has never worked a day in quality.

8. I my world new hires would go through as much quality training as skills training.

Hi,
1. Name : SK Tan from Penang,Malaysia
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : QA Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in : Contract manufacturing of electronics
Product
4. Company you work for and location : Kedah, Malaysia
5. Length of time in quality function : 14 years

I am currently doing my part time Master research in Quality Management System implementation in Malaysia Industrial.

I am looking for help on "process approach" for internal auditing. As recent ISO 9001:2000 surveillance audit, the registrar auditor comments that :

(i) Audit could be planned according to process, not per ISO 9001 elements
(ii) Process approach auditing skill was not clearly demonstrated
(iii) Audit note taking could be improved

I am thinking use the ISO/TS 16949 turtle diagram for the process approach, but how to use the turtle diagram? Any samples of particular process? for example: Internal auditing Process?

Hi folks

I am suresh from Bangalore (India). My specialisation is in the areas of supplier quality assurance, quality management systems. I have exposure in automotive, engineering industries for more 15 years.

Hope to see you all on the message boards and have interactions

bye

Suresh

Hello everbody!

1 Name: Ghiban
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do : trainee by a yacht manufacturer
3. Company you work for and location : France (85)
5. Length of time in quality function : just a previous 6 month training period(Customer Relation Service)
6. Something personal that sets you apart : (from the messages I've read so far on the forum) : I'm just starting my career:o
7. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? : they teach us at school that quality is improving...so, improving is changing - the world of quality should always pe changing, isn't it? :-)
But well...I'll certainly have some more intelligent stuff to say when I get more experience!

"See" you soon:)

Welcome, everyone!

I'm glad to be part of this discussion forum. It's been a great resources for information and contacts. About me...

1. Name- Murray Sittsamer

2. Job - I'm founder and president of The Luminous Group LLC. We help quality leaders in all industries who are under pressure to acheive significant improvments in quality and productivity but have limited resources internally.

3. Industry you're in or have been in -- personally: computer hardware, medical devices and automotive

Hello, there. My names is Toshiaki Aranishi (Japanese) and I'm new in this website. One of my jobs is to assess quality management systems in our company as a quality system analyst. I'm just beginning to learn about quality management systems and I do hope I can learn more about them from your suggestions and comments.:thanx:

:bigwave: Suman Stephen Soundraraj, MS in Industrial Engineering,
University of Illinois, Chicago(www.uic.edu)

1. Suman
2. Quality Engineer, Production
3. Gear Manufacturing, Garments
4. Shanthi Gears, India
5. 1-1.5 yrs
6. Interesting Mix of Experience, Quality , 6 Sigma Stuff, Inspection, Production, Operations, Supply Chain Management
7. trying to automate and document quality techniques
8. Let you know in 2years:bigwave:

please see my profile to send me an email:thanx:

Hi,
This is Chells from India.... am happy to get in !!!!! hope u'll help me out in my queries !!!!!
Thank u.

Could any one of u give me the details regarding the selection of pipe material, pipe thickness calculation, losses in pipe etc... (Flowing medium is Aircraft fuel)

Candaceph and Silentrunning-

About time we got some more Floridians in here!!

GO GATORS !!!!!

Candaceph- I'm quite frequently in Gainesville, have family there and I am a UF alum so my hunny and I try to make it for most of the football games. If you ever wish to join us for lunch on a weekend, let me know.

-John

Sure, why not.

1. Name- Al
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do- Director of Quality for a mid-size build to machining operation making turbine engine components
3. Industry you're in or have been in- Aerospace turbine engine components, 25 years
4. Company you work for and location- A growing manufacturer in New England
5. Length of time in quality function- 25+ years
6. Something personal that sets you apart-?
7. Your pet peeve in quality- quick solutions that don't get at the heart of the matter
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?- I'm not out to change the world, just to do my job as best as I can

Hi Everyone, my name is George Caron
QA Manager for Triton Workshop Systems
I've been in a Senior management position for over 25 yrs and have just recently opted to focus on QA
This is a FANTASTIC place for a " Newbie " like me to gather information, it is going to be one of my most important tools in the days and weeks to come. I am implementing a QMS format and am looking for some real simple terminology for the various points of a QA manual as well as Procedures.

Thanks All

(Never noticed this before!) OK. Here goes:

1. Allan Johnston

2-5. Architectural Conservation Technologist. After many jobs, went back to school in my mid-30's, graduated with a diploma in Architectural Technology, specializing in heritage conservation (restoration in the USA). Worked in the private sector for a few more years, now in Canadian government (10 years). Among other functions and skills, I write and do quality review of construction specifications. Our unit in Public Works is a multidisciplinary group of engineers, architects, technologists and administrative support (50 or so people in all). We started working on a quality system in 1997, KPMG registered it in 1998, and we just passed another continuing assessment today (hence, I'm on Elsmar Cove looking for ideas). I have been the "Quality Team Leader" for the past 2 years. Did the Lead Auditor course through BSI in April 2005. In fact, Randy (above) was one of the two instructors. (He is very a good instructor, by the way.) The office I work in is located across the river from Ottawa -- Canada's capital.

6. Play guitar (like millions of other people, so that doesn't set me apart, does it) -- mostly for stress release. It works quite well.

7. Quality pet peeve . . . ? Running up against people who cannot see that a quality management system is in their best interest.

8. Change the world of quality . . . ? I probably need a few (30+?) more years in this field to come up with a "quality" opinion.

I've been dropping into Elsmar Cove since Randy gave the class the web address two years ago. I've found it a very good source of information and ideas to begin answering questions posed by Management, solving CIs and bringing Opportunities for Improvement to fruition.

If anyone has comments or questions about an A&E group with an ISO 9001:2000 quality management system, please feel free. (Please NOTE: my position as "management representative" is part time and subordinate to my other job functions, so I am usually only on Elsmar Cove a few times a year during our internal assessment periods, when I'm working on 'CI's or 'O for I's and the mad rush before each external audit.)

Thanks for the opportunity to look good to Management; hope I can return the favour [Canadian spelling ;o) ] someday.

Allan

Name : Noorliza Sudin

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

Hello,
I am suhas, Manager QES SEL India

1. Simon Phenol
2. Supplier Quality Engineer
3. Supplier assessment, evaluation & management
4. International Buying Office
5. 5 years
6. Participate in quality in the rest of my life
7. Dealing with somebodies who thinks quality is useless
8. Quality of human mindset

Welcome one and all. Now that you have introduced yourselves we are looking forward to your posts (I see that some of you already made a few). :agree1:

/Claes

Hi
To introduce myself:
I am Kas Mehra
Location: Melbourne Australia
A Professional Engineer with a number of years of expereince in manufacaturing and quality management.
Currently semi-retrired - working 2 to 3 days a week as a consultant.
Would like to contribute on Quality Management issues for the benefit of the Quality Community.

Hello,

Sam Edwards
Auditor
Aerospace / Aviation
17 years...qa manager, QE, inspector, etc.
Currently work for a large aerospace company, but have worked for nine total
Genuine passion for participating in business improvement, vice just the paycheck.
Unmotivated people/employees/managers/companies.
Too many to list...

Nice meeting you!

Hello to everyone!:thanks:

Great forum!:applause:

1. Name: DACIAN VASILESCU
2. Job Title: INTERNAL AUDITOR ON HACCP
3. Industry you're in or have been in: FOOD INDUSTRY
4. Company you work for and location: D.V.V. CONSULTING IN ORADEA-ROMANIA
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?

:bigwave: :bigwave: :bigwave: Welcome to the Cove!!!!

@CarolX

Thanks for your wllcome, hope to bring my best to the forum

:bigwave:

Here's the skinny...

1 - Tom Seymour
2 - Currently IT Manager (Have been Toolmaker, Quality Engineer, Quality Manager, Production Manager)
3 - Currently Precision Plastics Machining, have been in Aerospace most of my working life
4 - Plastics machining company in Tilton, New Hampshire
5 - Involved directly or otherwise for 15 years
6 - Hockey Nut and Jersey Collector
7 - Pet Peeve: Quality is Quality's job
8 - Gee... If I were King, huh? Well, I guess ONLY Quality managers or Engineers would be qualified to serve as company President or CEO.

Hey everyone. There is alot of great information on here and it helps alot.

1. My name is Bryan Johnson
2.I am currently Plant Metallurgist at Cold Finish facility
3. Work in the steel industry, large supplier of steel raw materials and products
4. Nucor Cold Finish - Nebraska
5. Been in steel industry since I graduated with BS in Met Eng in 2005
started as Melt Shop Metallurgist then moved to CF in Jan 07
6. Skiing and SCUBA diving are my passion
7. "This is the way we have always done it."
8. I would make it so that everbody, sales, production, management, quality spends atleast 2 weeks working in all other areas in order to understand the entire process. It will only work out better for everyone.

Hi, Bryan and Tom, and WELCOME!!

You both seem to have lots of experience. I am sure we can learn from you, and maybe you can learn from us. Please share when you can!

Again, Welcome to the Cpve!

1. Bahar
2. QMS Consultant focused on ISO/IEC 17025
5. 2 Years
6. I don'tknow is it different or not, a young girl who loves everey moment of life

Hello Peoples !!

My self GAURAV NARULA
I did my B.E. From Pune University in 2001

Presentl working as Supplier Development Engineer With Continental Products component system (U.K.)
Posted at INDIA
Previously I was Woking at the Post of Asst. Manager Q.A.

With an CAR AIR CONDITIONING COMPANY (SUBROS LTD.)
TEFLON COATING, Machining, Calibration etc are my Fields

A very big welcome to you all.
As you can see there is a large group of professionals from all over the world.
Please remember
Do not be frightened to ask we all learn from each question:agree1: :agree1:

Hai all,

Iam srilakshmi, presently working as a quality analyst..

hope this forum will be advantageous, hope we all share knowledge together..and sort out all kinds of doubts here.

Best Regards,
Srilakshmi

Well im just gonna do my best here,
:o
1. Name - Declan McCaffrey
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Work Placement Student/Assistant Project Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Construction Industry
4. Company you work for and location - University of Ulster/Belfast/Northern Ireland
5. Length of time in quality function - 9 months
6. Something personal that sets you apart - Curiosity

Becky Blatchford
ISO Representative
Printing industry
RiverRun Press
Kalamazoo, Michigan
I've worked for the company for 6 months now, was asked
to take on the ISO implementation 4 months ago.
The thing that sets me apart, and baffels my co-workers/friends, I am a Sweet Adeline. I love to sing and perform barbershop quartet music!
:)

:bigwave: Wow Ireland, Israel, Iran, India - I have family in Dublin and Galway - I hope to see Israel and India before I retire (TL9000). ISO 17025 in Iran - is that for Calibration or Test Lab? I was an ISO 17025 Lab Quality Manager but that was 5 years ago - if you need information I suggest you go to www.a2la.org

Welcome Covers :thanx:

1. Name - ichigo
2. job title - process analyst
3. industry - transport
4. company - aboitiz phil
5. length of time in quality function - 1 yr
6. something personal...- average, can't think of any
7. your pet peeve in quality - documentation
8. if you could change the world of quality...- prioritize over cost

1. Name - Cherry Diesta
2. Job Title - IQA Staff
3. Industry - IC Burn In
4. Company - Sempac Philippines.
5. Length of time in quality function - 5 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - TS Understanding
7. Your pet peeve in quality - How to get a good objective for quality?
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - We will going to celebrate, because head ache was already cure.

Welcome all of you. :bigwave:

It really warms the the heart to see so much talent from all over the globe pouring in. Can you even imagine the magnitude of the collective knowledge base we form together?

I have been a member for a number of years now, and I am still awed by the mutual learning and friendship found here. :applause:

/Claes

Well, I have jut joined the forum a few minutes ago and here are my details.

1. Name

JOSE PAUL MELETH

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do

MANAGER-QA & MANAGEMENT REPRESENTATIVE

3. Industry you're in or have been in

Been in the Tyre industry as a Technical Officer for three years and witched over to the latex dipping industry - MEDICAL GLOVES. I have been in various capacities as Rubber technologist, HEAD - technology and developement, maanger-qa and management representative

4. Company you work for and location

Working for the FITCO GROUP OF COMPANIES (PRIMUS GLOVES and SANREA HEALTHCARE) located in Cochin, keral, india.

5. Length of time in quality function

15 years

6. Something personal that sets you apart

Sort of a " team work" guy,

7. Your pet peeve in quality

In these days of competiton Quality is the first casualty!

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

Put Quality first in everyone's mind.

dcc_csd, ichigo; Mabuhay, welcome to the cove!

Welcome everyone!
Do not hesitate to post a question, share your thoughts or bring good news.
We love to :lmao: (laugh our a$$ off) too.. so share that when you can.
:bighug:

I guess I should have done this yesterday. No loss i guess.

Name - Peter (last name not needed at this point).

Job Title - QA Coordinator (officially) but technically I manage the entire system...and the corporate bigwigs always refer to the me as the QA Manager. Whatever...just a title.

Industry - design and production of screen printed decalomania and various other forms of printed signage.

Company - Sunwest Graphics

Tenure - 10 years as of June '07. 3 of which in the QA role...although I had been auditing from the get-go.

Individual trait - I'm not an optimist nor a pessimist...I'm a realist.

Pet peeve in Quality - the fact that one of the most important aspects of ANY occupation (quality assurance) is generally a very thankless one.

How to change Quality - I wish everybody had a passion to challenge things.

Woo hoo! Another crazy canuck! Welcome onboard, eh! (sorry, but my company is about to enter our North American group's probelm solving competition...so there's a fair amount of "canadiana" sweeping my site!)

Pet peeve in Quality - the fact that one of the most important aspects of ANY occupation (quality assurance) is generally a very thankless one.

How to change Quality - I wish everybody had a passion to challenge things.

So challenge your pet peeve! Help those around you to understand the important role of management systems.

Of course, if we don't thank ourselves first, we can't expect others to do so. (Good job, Roxane...good job...*pats self on back*) ;)

LOL!! Way to go Roxane...nice job! :D

Extremely nice to meet you...wow, two days and this site has been more than fruitful!!

Hi ya'll. I have learned a lot in my short time here. Thanks!
1. Name - HSSE Auditor
2. job title - HSSE Audit Program Manager
3. industry - making fuel
4. company - very big one
5. length of time in quality function - 22
6. something personal...- tennis, golf and Bud are my hobbies
7. your pet peeve in quality - So many ways to spell it. http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=21489&page=4

8. if you could change the world of quality...- I don't know what to do, so I leave it up to you.

Hi everyone,
My name is Carolyn and I am the quality assurance person at my company. I was hired unofficially for this position and may have lots of questions for all of you.
I work for a small manufacturing company in Northern Michigan. We manufacture Center Drills. I have been here for 10 years now and we have been registered to ISO for 5 of those years.
I am a 42 year old college student that wonders sometimes what the heck I was thinking when I became a student.
My pet peeve for quality is when people say "where was our ISO" whenever something went wrong.

I am a 42 year old college student that wonders sometimes what the heck I was thinking when I became a student.

My pet peeve for quality is when people say "where was our ISO" whenever something went wrong.
My Mother, the doctor (PhD, not the real kind) says, "Always learn, never stop learning, embrace learning. It keeps you young." She has retired from helping people and is studying horticulture at a technical school.

I don't hear "where was our ISO" but I have come to accept that quality and/or quality people will likely be the sacrificial goat when things go wrong.

Name: Micky
Job Title: Northeast Area Mgr. (just a title) I spend alot of time on applications work and like crunching numbers
Industry: Paper Manufacturing and converting
Company: Small Instrument manufacturer
Tenure: Current comp. 9yrs (in Industry 22yrs)
Something personal: home wood and metal shop projects and playing guitar.
Pet Peeve: The quality labs are easy marks for cost cutting.

I've only visited this site 3 times and each time can not wait to visit again. Thanks to all who contribute.

Hello from Texas,

I have been lurking the forum for a while now trying to figure something out. I have recently been hired on as a psuedo quality administrator, to a non-existant quality manager. Make sense? No... it doesn't to me either.

Either way, I was hired at this company as a QC, just checking equipment before it went out the door at a calibration lab. Long story short, I got wrapped up in trying to get this company ISO 17025 certified.

I figured I would introduce myself before I start making a fool of myself asking questions which may seem common sense to alot of you. Please bare with me... I am learning.

I have already learned alot from visiting these forums but now it is time for me to start posting some specific questions that I have searched up and down for and cannot seem to find what I am looking for.

Well off I go... hope to hear from you as I post. Thanks in advance.

I don't hear "where was our ISO" but I have come to accept that quality and/or quality people will likely be the sacrificial goat when things go wrong.

That's because we're expert firefighters!! The difficulty lies in teaching and training others to prevent fires. At least that's what Smokey the Bear says...and I admire that dude!

Hello everyone!

I'm Benjamin Inigo, that is my real first and last name. I'm a certified public accountant (CPA) from the Philippines and currently working as a Corporate Auditor for a conglomerate company engaged in investment management for it's various companies within the group. The group currently has diversified operations in banking (commercial and thrift bank), power group (both generation and distribution), food group (flour manufacturing and swine operations), construction & shipbuilding group, real estate and leasing (both industrial and residential) and transportation group (crewing, freight & logistics and passenger and cargoes shipping).

I basically joined this forum as a venue for practice development through information exchange as the brand promise of my professional organization, the Institute of Internal Auditors, PROGRESS THROUGH SHARING.

Good day everyone and lets have fun in sharing information and grow in our respective professions.

Thanks,

Benjamin.

1. Name: David Niu
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: QA engineer
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Automotive parts supplier
4. Company you work for and location: Ventra group, Ontario
5. Length of time in quality function:Two years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: play soccer
7. Your pet peeve in quality:lack of the support from the top management
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Let all the employee understand and implement "total quality management".

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Hi,everybody.It is so nice to meet you here.:agree:

ISO17025 is a huge task go to www.a2la.org to familiarize youself and manager with the scope of this accreditation. :bigwave:

1. Name: Ron Faraday :bigwave:
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Industrial Engineer/Lean Transformation Coordinator
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Fence systems
4. Company you work for and location: Master Halco Fence Systems - Scranton, PA
5. Length of time in quality function: 17 years

Hai all,

Iam srilakshmi, presently working as a quality analyst..

hope this forum will be advantageous, hope we all share knowledge together..and sort out all kinds of doubts here.

Best Regards,
Srilakshmi

Hi sri
welcome home am a QA manager & MR in a printing industry may i know what kind of analusis u do and to which sector u belong
by the way which part of india u from I am frm south

I have learned so much reading this forum. I just happened to find it accidentally searching for Quality information, and I am thankful that I did. :thanx:

1. Name Pam Moore
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do Quality Manager, Gov't Property Manager and Configuration Management Specialist & the Lead Technical Writer (We are a small company, but growing fast!)
3. Industry you're in or have been in The wonderful world of Government Contracting :biglaugh:
4. Company you work for and location Systems Techology Forum, Ltd. - Virginia
5. Length of time in quality function Pretty new, I was just kind of given the position. I'm just so lucky! :mg: But, I have been in the Gov't Contracting business for over 27 years.

I look forward to sharing with everyone and learning more and more everyday.

Pam :bigwave:

I just searched APIQ1 information, and I get it in this forum. Hope will learn a lot of thing and always get an update news about quality.
:thanx:

1. Name Dio
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do QHSE Coordinator
3. Industry you're in or have been in Chemical drilling supply for oil and gas company
4. Length of time in quality I've been 7 years and just feeling very stupid in this area :( , but believe I will get help from this forum :yes:

I look forward to getting help from everyone and learning more everyday.


Regards, Dio:bigwave:

1. Name Dio
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do QHSE Coordinator
3. Industry you're in or have been in Chemical drilling suplply for oil and gas company
4. Length of time in quality I've been 7 years and just feeling very stupid in this area :( , but believe I will get help from this forum :yes:

I look forward to getting help from everyone and learning more everyday.


Regards, Dio:bigwave:

Greeting Dio,

Trust me...you will get a lot out of this forum!! It is packed with more info than you could imagine!!

Welcome all to the Cove

:bigwave: :bigwave: :bigwave:

Hope you find what you need - and if you don't - feel free to ask!

I am Nagabhushan

I am from Bangalore ,India.

I am managing the quality and environmental systems implementation at FESTO ,INDIA.

The production of pneumatic componentsis the main business of the company

1. Name: Ted
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Quality Assurance Manager, responsible for FDA compliance, OSHA compliance, and general training
3. Industry you're in or have been in: I am transitioning from 9 years in neutraceuticals to active medical devices. While different, it's all the same.
4. Company you work for and location; I'm in South Florida
5. Length of time in quality function: 9+ years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: I shave my head
7. Your pet peeve in quality: "Just getting by."
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Create true believers.

Hi,

I'm relatively new to Elsmar cove
1. My name is Tom Hutchison and am Scottish born but grew up in Canada (Toronto Ontario area)

2. I am a Quality engineer responsible for administration of our AS9100 QMS

3. We service a number of industries including nuclear, aerospace, automotive, power generation and commercial equipment manufacturers.

4. I work for General Gear Company located in Toronto, Ontario

5. I have been with GGC only a year but have been employed in the Quality field for a little over 30 years with most of that in an aerospace manufacturing enviroment (airframe, gear & transmission and landing gear manufacturers). Immediately prior to joining General Gear I had been consulting for the previous 8 years again within the aerospace industry.

6. My wife sys I'm a pain in the butt, but I think there is probably a lot of that going around.

7. Lack of ownership by process owners who see quality as a necessary evil only.
8. Have true integration of Quality within all business systems, an effective training program and management support.

My best to all

Tried to find my way through this site but cannot. It is unclear as to how to introduce myself, post a topic or respond to queries.

Thanks

Hello wayne

Tried to find my way through this site but cannot. It is unclear as to how to introduce myself, post a topic or respond to queries.

Thanks

Welcome to the Cove, Wayne :D

You can start by having a look at the posts in How to Use the Forum Software--Basic Instructions (http://elsmar.com/Forums/forumdisplay.php?f=86).

:eek: oh for crying out loud I can't believe I'm doing this - I don't join anything but I found this place today while doing a search for some quality stuff and I think you are possibly the answer to my prayers :)

The name is Poll and I recently fell into a quality role by accident (my boss thought I'd be good at the job and I didn't run fast enough ;)). I have little/no knowledge of quality issues/thinking/systems/procedures/people/etc but I'm learning fast - and I do want to learn. It seems that after far too many years of waiting to grow up and discover what I wanted to be, I may have possibly found my niche.

I look forward to spending at least some of my learning journey with you all :tg:

Poll :-)

Hi Poll, and welcome :bigwave:

Looks like we are neighbours (of a sorts) and I'm pretty much in the same boat, I did not step back at the same time as everyone else. The info on this site is unbelievable. :biglaugh: Have fun.

Peter.

OK, here it goes:
1- name: Lise Robert (French)
2- Job title: quality/production supervisor
3- Industry I am in: Automotive Tier 1
4-Company you work for and location: sister company to the Toyota Group and own by the same family, location: Quebec and Ontario with HQ in Japan
5-length of time in Quality: 7 years
6-Something personnal that set you apart: I trained in Japan on TPS and Visual control
7-Your pet peeve in Quality: Sometimes production comes first
8-If you could change the world of Quality, what would you do? Promote accountability for what you produce. Every one should be quality oriented, not only the team members but management also.

Regards
Lise

My name is Thurai, a Malaysian and I'm attached as a purchasing officer in a private firm.
I would like to know how to determine a critical vendor? On what criteria are these critical vendors evaluated? Other then the criteria for quality and delivery how can we evaluate a critical supplier on price?
I hope someone there will help me out in this matter.

Thanks

Hello everyone. My name is Wayne G., from Ontario, Canada. I currently work in the automotive supply chain for a tier 1. My past experience has been with a tier 1 supplier of aluminum wheels, tier 1 supplier of closure systems, supplier quality at GM powertrain, and now here, tier 1 supplier of transmission components. My responsibilities are supplier quality assurance, manage the internal audit program (TS16949, ISO14001, OHSAS18001) and the day to day fire fighting.
I hope I can be of help answering questions that anyone may have, and I too have some questions that I'm sure this vast wealth of knowledge can help me with.
Glad to be aboard!

Hello covers,

I have posted a few times and thought it is time to scribe my name in the sand. So here it goes-

1-Nick name: 36, or would you prefer Tater salad?

2-Job title: Quality Systems Specialist (under paid internal QMS consultant)

3-Industry I am in: Medical Device Mfg., Textile Screen Printing & Graphic Design (personal business)

4-Company you work for: Not Medtronic, Breakaway Sportswear

5-location:Midwest

6-length of time in Quality: 14 years

7-Something personal that set you apart:
I was a brawler who scored goals in hockey.

8-Your pet peeve in Quality:
People who can’t grasp change & generational differences.

9-If you could change the world of Quality, what would you do?
Big topic so I will pick one point. I would remove the ranking system behind education. Too many people come out of college and all they can do effectively is write a well formatted business letter.

Hello there!

:bighug:

-Siva Kishan is my name. (Indian)
-Internship in quality (client claims) management is my job.
-Polymer components for light motor vehicles related to fluid and acoustic applications (OEM for European Automotive industry).
-Trelleborg Automotive Nantes SAS, Carquefou, France is my company.
-3 months have passed in this role. (also the first ever quality role)
-Obsessive Attention to Detail is what sets me apart.
-I have barely scratched the surface of quality and have no pet peeve.
-Yet to figure out what needs to be changed in the world of quality.

Nice joining you all in this life's journey.

Hope it would be as instructive as Robert Pirsig had narrated through his Chautauquas on his ride from Minnesota to California.

:thanks:

Hi,
I'm Patrick, Quality Manager at a small contract testing laboratory (mainly blood samples from clinical trials) in Oxford, England.

I was bitten by the quality bug around 1990 and currently present many of the symptoms of quality management. I've worked in large, medium and small academic, pharmaceutical, medical device, animal vaccine and contract testing organisations. I love quality, perfection, consistency, problem resolution, improvement etc.

My peeve is managment that are not 100% verbally, physically, demonstrably committed to quality (maybe I have failed). I wish that everyone would realise that it is quality that makes the world go round, not money.

To ensure I maintain my infected state, I brew my own beer with honey !!!!

This site looks awesome (as my youngest daughter says).

Looking forward to enjoying your contributions and hope that I can offer something in return (beer does not travel).

Thank God for quality.

Hello to all,
i m amit.i m a mechanical engineer & intrested in quality functions.Nowaday i m working on supplier improvement project.So i want to draw a format for supplier process audit.

Hello to all,
i m amit.i m a mechanical engineer & intrested in quality functions.Nowaday i m working on supplier improvement project.So i want to draw a format for supplier process audit.Welcome! :bigwave: Try using the Advanced Search feature by clicking the "Search" button and choosing it in the drop down box. The Search button is on the right in the navigation bar at the top of the page.

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 : Vijay Dhavala
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Vice-President, Operations
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Steel, Chemicals, Construction and presently-Typesetting . Notice the common thread :OPERATIONS : I see all process as but a set of logically interlinked sub-processes and.....
4. Company you work for and location: Laserwords, Chennai, India
5. Length of time in quality function: 17 yrs. (Though, formally, I started off in the Quality Assurance division of an integrated steel plant and spent only an year in that, i have internalised the attitude and don it - even though my core hat is of Ops !
6. Something personal that sets you apart: An Ops guy with a Quality hat!!
7. Pet peeves - many....wouldn't like to mention! Am very positive
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: Will let that pass! Too open-ended!

hellow

1. Name: sharaf ageed
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: quality manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in: avaiation
4. Company you work for and location: safat - sudan
5. Length of time in quality function: ywo year
6. Something personal that sets you apart: ????
7. Your pet peeve in quality: all
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? i will be excellance

1. Name: Scott, But Ive been called 'Bull' since my early military days.
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Ergonomics technician, Injury prevention specialist.
3. Industry you're in or have been in: Medical Field
4. Company you work for and location: Two Hospital System in California
5. Length of time in quality function: Seems like all my life... but for this company the past 3 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart: I'm pretty run of the mill, normal
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Quality has to be excellent but it also has to be ergonimically safe too.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Make it ergonimically sound too.

:bigwave:

Hi Guys
My name is Jorge Vargas I'm a Quality Engineer :cool:
As you can figured out I'm from Mexico and I live in a town 3 hours away to Mc Allen Texas.
I like to play football soccer, and I like too much to watch NFL games on tv
My experience is in plastic inyection processes where I have worked over four years
I wish I could to offer free and helpful software (quality system applications)to small companies wich don't have enough resources to implement
Regards everybody :D

Dear All,

Namaste.Wondering what it is? saying hello in Indianway.I am glad to be amongst you.I look forward to a fruitful interaction.

My full name: R.Narasimhan (typically Indian ya. R is my initial,stands for Rajagopalan my dad's name.)

Call me Naras.

I am 48 years old.Guess I have peers in the forums.

I am an experienced Mechanical Engineer having exposure to various manufacturing processes.

I work in an Automotive ancillary company as Divisional Manager in South India/Madras.

:cool: Hey Everybody my names Angus, I am a QC Engineer at NGK Ceramics South Africa

Hope That I can Help You in any way possible and that you can help me:thanx:





Quote: Quality is a Way Of LIfe

Welcome!!! Its great to see new folks join us with such impressive resumes. I look forward to reading your posts!

Hi, I'm Ersin Bulut

I'm working as an internal auditor in one of the major banks in Türkiye. İnternal audit is a new term for my country. So, we're learning internal audit procedures by baby steps.

I'm reading the topics and I'm learning a lot of things. Thanks for everybıdy for contribution

Best regards

My name is Daly. I am an industrial Engineering Engineer. I am worked for a multinational company specialized in automotive cables, (so it is certified ISO/TS 16949:2002). I am actually a Quality System Engineer, I am working on the folowing projects:
- Process Audit check list,
-Preparation for certification according to ISO 14001:2004,
- energetic efficiency,....
I am interested in ISO/TS, FMEA, Control Plan, SPC, MSA, SMED,ISO14001, Quality improvement, Six Sigma...
Hope to keep in touch with all of u
Bye bye

1. Name

TOM Y
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
SENIOR MANAGER
3. Industry you're in or have been in
PCB ELECTRONIC
4. Company you work for and location
TECHWISE COMPANY IN CHINA
5. Length of time in quality function
MANY YEARS
6. Something personal that sets you apart

7. Your pet peeve in quality
The cooperation does not match.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Iwoud like toi change the quality system as QS9000

My name is G. NAGARAJA RAO. I am working as a marketing manager and as mangement representative at bangalore malleable castings pvt ltd. Bangalore, we are manufacturing iron castings for different type of industries like automotive, linehardware, railways,scaffolding, and general engineering industries. As an MR I am responsible for the quality managment systems of the company besides I am looking after the marketing activities also.

thanks

welcome, everyone. We are glad to see you here.:bigwave:

Hello everyone, my name is Bill Jones, I live and work in Central Scotland, as Manufacturing and Quality Consultant. I have a successful record of working with ISO 9000 etc. A client has asked me to help them obtain TS16949 : 2000 at one of its plants.

I am seeking advice towards the vital differences and major changes that will be required in their present systems.

I would appreaciate any information anyone can supply.

Gary W.
Sr. Product Engineer
Pumps & Water Purification, Electronics, Defense
ITT Corp.
Not in QA; Engineer for 28 yrs.

1. Giulio Dinon (ju-lie-o), nobody gets it right the first time.

2. Quality Engineering & Systems

3. Electromotive diesel - locomotive

4. 7 yrs

6. I love to golf, fish, and cook

I am looking forward to sharing my experiences knowledge with the folks in these forums, as I have definitely learned a lot from the short time I have been on board. I have just found this site and all I can say is WOW!! Great stuff to be found.

1. Matt Bell
2. I am responsible for bringing my company into compliance with ISO 13485
3. Former auditor, now work at a small manufacturing and importing company.
4. Atlanta, GA
5. 1 month of QMS experience
6. I like outdoor sports, music, cooking, and pool halls.

I'm a greenhorn, to say the least, as far as quality management goes. I'll certainly ask some elementary questions, but I really appreciate any input.

-Matt

1. Matt Bell
2. I am responsible for bringing my company into compliance with ISO 13485
3. Former auditor, now work at a small manufacturing and importing company.
4. Atlanta, GA
5. 1 month of QMS experience
6. I like outdoor sports, music, cooking, and pool halls.

I'm a greenhorn, to say the least, as far as quality management goes. I'll certainly ask some elementary questions, but I really appreciate any input.

-Matt

Welcome, Matt! :bigwave: You've come to the right place! There are plenty of folks here who don't mind helping.


Welcome everyone!! Looking forward to seeing more posts from y'all! Don't be shy, jump in whenever you feel like it. :biglaugh:

Hi buddies!!!!

1. Name : Arindam Ray
2. Job Title or explanation : Working as Manager Business Excellence, Looking after the overall quality in ISO 9001:2000 & ISO 27001 standards
3. Industry : Presently E commerce
4. Company location: Mjunction Services Ltd., Calcutta, India
5. Length of time in quality function : 6 Yrs
6. Something personal that sets me apart : Extremely fun loving
7. Pet peeve in quality : Not quite sure
8. If I could change the world of quality: I would perhaps eliminate the system of 3rd party external assessment......and stress on something which people will love to do by themselves.

Cheers

Arindam

Hi folks. I'm Alvin here

Hello! This my first post though I have registered quite a while ago.
I am Satish Hule and an engaged in supplier development and audits.
I find this forum highly enlightening as I read through Q&As of other members.

I am interested in a FMEA case study which highlights benefits of FMEA showing before and after situations.

Hi; I'm Gary Maile. I've been on the Cove in the past but changed jobs last year and am only just getting back on board. I'm the Quality Manager for a pharmaceutical packaging manufacturer - otherwise known as "we make toothpaste tubes"!! I've been in quality for nearly 24 years. I started in the research & development labs in a paper mill and got hooked on quality by accident! Anyway, I've already found a lot of very useful information and discussions so I'm looking forward to joining in some more of the "healthy debate" about the usual topics in the future.

hello, everyone, the following is my detailed info.

Name : joan ( From a plastic mold factory in china )

Job Title: Sales director

Company service: Total service for injection mold & plastic parts

products including : TV screen, auto parts, electrical &electronic appliance, digital products, bi-material injection mold and etc.

Certification : ISO9001:2000

If you are interested in our products, just fell free to contract us.

If you are in the same line, let us be friends and exchang ideas and improvement together. :applause:

My last name sarts with Bargh. I like it because it sounds german although Im not. :)

I'm physicist by education but engineer by experience. I'm interested in Statistics and in proving that Gage R&R studies are just over-rated.

My posts will focus on this goal :)

Thanks for the very inciteful forum.

M. Bargh

1. Nichole
2. Quality Manager
3. Waer Purification Manufacturing & paper product manufacturing
4. Lighthouse for the Blind
5. 11 years in the Quality Department, 4 months as a Quality Manager
6. ??
7. My pet peeve in Quality is the lack of attention that Quality receives, unless we are due a visit from the auditor
8. I don't know about changing the world of Quality, but I would really like for everyone in Management to attend a Quality seminar at some point to get some idea of Quality concepts :)

Wecome:bigwave: to all the new and returning members! feel free to jump in and get your feet wet.

1. Name Phil
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do: Exploring quality & manufacturing
3. Industry you're in or have been in : Manufacturing & engineering
4. Company you work for and location: Australia
5. Length of time in quality function :
6. Something personal that sets you apart; Just curious!
7. Your pet peeve in quality: Companies that make the noise with little results
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?: In our industry, a lot of employees are cynical about all the short term attempts to create a QUALITY quality system. Without confidence, there wil be limited results

Welcome to newbies and returnees alike!:bigwave:
I hope you find the Cove informative and helpful and that you will soon be one of the informative and helpful contributors on a regular basis.

Many of us have found the Cove to be one of the "good" addictions in our lives. Here's hoping you will, too!

Hello.I am Arther XU,come form China.
1. Arther XU
2. QA Engineer
3. Lens produce
4. Carl Zeiss Vision (China) Ltd,Guangdong privince, PRC
5. 8 Years of quality experince

Welcome to all of you folks! The moderators and I hope you enjoy yourselves and find the information you're looking for! Have a question? Just Start a New Thread (http://elsmar.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=18980) and ask!

Marc

Welcome aboard!

Hi,

I am Feroz.
Currently working for one of the companies in Toshiba Semiconductor groups.
I have been in the QA field for 7 years.
Hopefully I could gain lots of knowledge here since I think members here have vast knowlegde in quality.

Best regards.

Hello everyone,
1. Name - Julie Elsdon-Height
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Quality Systems Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Manufacturing many kinds
4. Company you work for and location - Polymer company, Bolton Ontario
5. Length of time in quality function - 8 years
6. Something personal that sets you apart - Quirky..lol
7. Your pet peeve in quality - trying to find the words at times to ensure my meaning is clear when I'm having to state what I think is straight-forward to someone...making sure they understand the value if they're being negative just because...
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Encourage people who have the opportunity to represent the Quality dept to be respectful of other's views....we must influence people in a positive manner so they don't see Quality as a police system

Welcome Julie! I'm with you on your frustrations!

:bigwave:Hi All
My name is Zappy:bigwave: and I am new to the Quality Dept of a soft drink company. I have the daunting task of helping to implement ISO 14001. I am madly reading everything I can get my hands. This site has been a big help already. Thank you.

Hi all,

My name is Peter and I am the quality officer at a regional hospital medical laboratory in my region.

I recently received this position and I am looking for all the help I can get to put together our personal QMS.

The iso standards of interest are iso 15189:03 and 902:04.

Glad to be part of this forum and looking forward to share and receive information on quality.

Have a great day!:)

Peter

Hello,
1. Gene Lepage
2. Engineering QA Manager
3. Power Generation, Aerospace, Electronics
4. ALSTOM Power Systems – Windsor CT
5. 25 yrs
6. 27yr Private Pilot, R/C Helicopters, Fishing
7. People who actively refuse to follow company policy but will not participate in revising or establishing policies.
8. Raise awareness of the importance of efficient data and business information management.

Zeev O.
QA & Continuous Improvement Manager
Surface Preparation Equipment Manufacturing
9 Yrs Exp.
Im the only quality professional I know with an MBA
Pet Peeve: No CQO positions out there
Create a CQO position

1. Kevin Boyd
2. Quality Assurance Manager
3. Aerospace, Defense, Commercial, Etc....
4. 5th Axis CNC San Diego, California
5. 5 Years
6. We specialize in 5 Axis Machining and plan on ramping to Robotic
7. When Machinists do not measure before brining the product in for buy-off
8. The world of quality is changing... We have fully automated CMM Machinery, we can import Solidwork files, CNC's have offset verification now.. We are not doing to bad.

Zeev O.
QA & Continuous Improvement Manager
Surface Preparation Equipment Manufacturing
9 Yrs Exp.
Im the only quality professional I know with an MBA
Pet Peeve: No CQO positions out there
Create a CQO positionPerhaps you'd be interested to know we have lots of quality pros here at the Cove with advanced degrees, including MA, MBA, PhD.

Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:

To all the newbies: Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:

I'm pleased to see such diversity in backgrounds and industries. I'm looking forward to some interesting posts from you!

My name is Liong Sze Woon, chinese descendant from malaysia.
Has been actively working in the construction industry in singapore and currently in malaysia before decided to pursue academic excellence at University Tunku Abdul Rahaman in construction management for the extra ooomps.
Currently in my final year, where the toughest task is the project paper in which i am preparing in order to qualify an honors certificate.
This web site has allowed me to communicate with all layers of people in their respective field with regard to quality in which i find enticing of all the jargons, requirements, system etc.
Glad to be part of group, time again does not allowed me to participate actively.
Mainly now i am seeking views, opinion and infortmation for the time being.
Perhaps in the near future i am able to contribute and share my part of experiences and knowledges acquired for all.
cheers

Perhaps you'd be interested to know we have lots of quality pros here at the Cove with advanced degrees, including MA, MB, PhD.

Welcome to the Cove!:bigwave:


Good to know.

Hi everyone,

I am somewhat new to this site and I am just getting into AS9100.
We are going for our certification this September and have a lot of work to do.

Would love to hear from others, drop me a line at digitalfemale at excite dot com

1. Christine or AKA Digitalfemale
2. Manufacturing Support Specialist
3. Manufacturing of Membranes
4. Air Products - North America
5. Newbie - Greenie - Wet behind the ears etc...
6. Just finished my Engineering Degree at the age of 40
7. My pet peeve in quality is the lack of attention.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? That's a great question with which I don't have the answer yet.

welcome new members:bigwave:

Remember everyone, if you put an e-mail address into your posts, you invite a lot of spam from bots and spyders crawling the web. If you want people to e-mail you, make sure that you activiate that function in your User CP (left corner of nav bar on the site) and then refer to your profile, it's safer that way! Enjoy, and jump right in there, I'm sure you can all teach us a thing or two also.

Hi, I'm Ersin Bulut

I'm working as an internal auditor in one of the major banks in Türkiye. İnternal audit is a new term for my country. So, we're learning internal audit procedures by baby steps.

I'm reading the topics and I'm learning a lot of things. Thanks for everybıdy for contribution

Best regards

Ersin,

First let me say welcome to the Cove! I am certain that you'll find alot of helpful information here -- and if you don't see what you need, feel free to ask!

I just returned from Izmir, Turkey, having traveled there to teach an AS9100 Internal Auditing Course. I found the country to be exciting, the industry well developed and the interest in quality improvement a great thing.

Although there may be a shortage of AS9100 Instructors in the country, there are organizations with offices there who have access to qualified and competent resources always ready to travel.

For those of you who never considered Turkey as a destination for work or holiday, you would be well advised to reconsider. I found this to be one of the most beautiful places on our planet!

1. Tim Whitehead
2. Supplier Quality Engineer
3. Contract electronics manuf.
4. Axiom Manufacturing Services - Wales U.K.
5. 10 yrs exp in various quality roles
6. Auto insert to box build
7. Poor supplier response
8. Maybee this forum will give me the answers lol

Hi! This is Udayan from India... am basically a Senior Management guy involved in setting up projects for manufacturing automotive components..currently doing Door Sash Project for Tata Small Car (X3).

:bigwave:Hi New Folks - and Tim does tg stand for the grim reaper - I hope there's not 72 of them roaming around. I just got back from Boise and Louisville and my e-mail was migrated so I missed posting on this great site. Lots of great information and moderators - check out topics at top of page.

Hi This is Lucy Yin from China who is quality Engineer for Automotive manufactory. I am a fresh man for quality system audit, and never get integrated and systematism training, i am reading also and learning more, thanks!

1. María Diehn
2. Translation - Quality Assurance
3. Translation
4. HispanoAmerican Communications, Gilbert, Arizona, USA
5. 18 months
6. Direct
7. Do what it takes to do it right
8. I will think about that

1. Tom Fuller
2. Senior Quality Systems Auditor
3. Military Contracting, Food Processing Industry, Military (Army)
4. CSA Ltd, Kuwait
5. 15 yrs
6. Flexibility
7. "cant" !
8. Conveying the message that I am here to help you improve not hurt you

1. I'm John
2. Quality Systems Engineer. The previous 5 companies I had been the Plant Quality Manager.
3. I have been in Passenger transportation, Paper making, Printing, Paint & Powder Coatings, Pipe fittings, Petroleum Products distribution, Pressure Sensitive Adhesives and now I am in Polishing Pads.
4. I am now with Rohm and Haas.
5. I have been in Quality continusouly since 1978.
6. I passed 5 ASQ certification exams all on the first attempt.
7. Companies (prior not current) that hide what they know they are intentionally doing wrong from the quality dept until the customer finds out, then they expect quality to bail them out.
8. Remove the age bias in most companies that won't allow older employees to become Black Belts.

Hi,

1. Name :
My name is Guy Frankin and am Belgian born but live in Reunion since 10 years.

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do :
I am quality and environment manager

3. Industry you're in or have been in :
I am in sugar industry (storage and packaging cristalized sugar 50000 T/year), before that I worked in an ice cream factory, coffee torrefaction and packaging unit, aerospace engine, software maintenance, banks transactions, call centers,...

4. Company you work for and location :
I work for Sucreries de Bourbon / EUROCANNE, Reunion Island (Indian Ocean/ France)

5. Length of time in quality function :
8 years as quality control lab manager and after that 8 years as management quality manager

6. Something personal that sets you apart :
I have sence of humour and like to do derision of me

7. Your pet peeve in quality :
Suppliers with monopolistic situations (They provide bad quality of product and service ....)

8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? :
Reformat brains of directors for they learn that preventives actions are the best than little changes and waiting to go a probable crash in a longer period...It's important to think THE CHANGE than only to think to bandage's change


My best to all

Welcome to all the new members!:bigwave: Hope we get to "see" you around here often.

1. Name - Raimana
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do - Work Placement Student/Assistant Project Manager
3. Industry you're in or have been in - Aerospace (stockist & distributor)
4. Company you work for and location - ATR (EADS/Alenia JV) Eastern support
5. Length of time in quality function - 1 mth
6. Something personal that sets you apart - Be the difference because that makes a difference

Hi all, so glad to be here. I came from China, I found this forum when I am searching something on google. Hope can communicate with all of you.

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

Welcome to all our newcomers!:bigwave:

I'm looking forward to the time you feel enough a part of our "family" to welcome other newcomers.

The one thing you'll learn here is we have continually recurring "themes" about Quality topics. The surprising thing is that, although the questions are similar, the ANSWERS change over time. Quality is based on some immutable themes, but new insights and technologies demand continual effort on the part of quality professionals to keep up with the changes to help their organizations stay competitive.

One of the best places for that continuing education is here in the Cove. Here's hoping you find it a valuable resource for your career!

Well here it goes:
My name is Grace Gully
I am the Regulatory Affairs / Quality Assurance Manager for a company that distributes class II medical devices. We also have a laboratory that is one of the biggest in the country, we test for drugs of abuse and steroids in urine.
The company is Redwood Toxicology Laboratory, Inc. Santa Rosa, CA (heart of the wine country).
I have work on and off in Quality starting in 1978, starting will mil specs, ISO and now cGMP or CRF 820.
My pet peeves is that upper management dosen't seem to want to get involved with the quality system until an auditor shows up at the door.
I'm not sure what I would change about the quality system I just know that I would make it better and more stream line.
I am truly looking forward to joining this forum.

Hello, my name is Bill Asher.

I am a Supplier Quality Engineer in manufacturing. I have also been in the Building Materials and Automotive industries.

I am employed by FLOW International Corp (High-Pressure Pumps and Waterjet Cutting Equipment).

I have been involved in Quality for about 10 years, beginning with an ISO9001:1994 implementation while I was a Production Lead. I was very resistant to it, saw it as a waste of time and increased paperwork, but became a convert after I saw the tremendous improvements in quality and delivery that we experienced (my company took ISO VERY seriously!).

Pet Peeve: All the effort expended in the name of supplier qualification, then the contract is awarded on price alone.

If I could change the word of quality, it would be to convince Management that if you DO IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME, you will get better throughput, less waste, higher efficiency and productivity, on time delivery and, by the way, higher profits!

1. I am Henry.
2. I am actually an Electrical Engineer but currently my job is about Calibration, Reliability and Measurement System Analysis, in an LCD Company.
3. Semiconductor, LCD
4. Amertron Inc. (previous), but currently working at Nanox, Clark Philippines.
5. 1 and a half years
6. Reclusive.
7. Very interesting and challenging! Calibration Principles, i guess.
8. Changing probably means going into better things.

1. Ben T
2. Job title - Associate professor in a business school teaching TQM and business ethics
3. Industry - Higher education
4. Metro Manila, Philippines
5. 22 years as quality educator and part-time consultant
6. Personal: I play the ukelele and love aikido
7. Peeve: Top managers who don't get it
8. Change: Teach it in highschool for all

1. Shawn Ann
2. Accounts Receivable Manager - Person who also does all the ISO work in the company
3. Automotive
4. IMC & IMF - Sterling Heights Michigan
5. 5 years at the company
6. I'm a female with the name Shawn LOL
7. How much EXTRA work there is needed
8. Remove it all together. No matter how many things you try to add to the world of quality the worse off the company ends up. Plus it makes me have to do so much extra work that has nothing to do with Accounting!

RB
I was thrust into the Quality Manager, Technician, Iso Cordinator etc.
Small company Been bought several times and each time a different registrar.
It is a challenge when the Job of successfull audits fall to only you but are supposed to be a team effort.

:bigwave:Hey, Ya'll, welcome to the Cove. Pull up a chair and sit for a spell!

Brother in law works for Rohm and Haas. 5 first time Certifications is impressive.

Dustyn Webb
Regulatory/Quality Manager
Osteogenics Biomedical, Inc.
Lubbock, Texas
products - suture, barrier membranes (periodontal)
small, progressive medical device manufacturer
20 employees
EN ISO 13485:2003
CMDCAS ISO 13485:2003
EN ISO 9001:2000
Directive 93/42/EEC Annex II/CE Marks
Notified Body - SGS-UK
1 year with OBI-We changed NB this year, so went through the initial audit.
New to RA/QA (1 year).
Worked at university in cell/molecular lab and intellectual properties office.
MBA General Business, MS Cell/Molecular Biology
wife-Tess and two sons (Ben-11yo & Jake-9yo)

Hi my name is Gloria Parker
I am the Quality Technical Assistant, I am responsible for managing our TS program.
We are in the automotive supply industry
I have been working here for almost 17 years
My pet peeve is the fact that in order to comply with the requirements of our customers and TS we must have resources, we have very little resources.
To change the world of quality, I would make sure that it is understood that you truly get what you pay for.

hello everybody

hi every one, this khan abdul baseer
i have just completed my graduation in mechanical engineering & joined to the Rucha group of industries
as quality assurance engineer its an ISO/TS16949-2002 Certified group manufacturing automobile chasis for various companies as Bajaj auto ltd. , tata motor etc......
can i have guidence from anybody regarding iso/ts16949-2002 plz., since i have joined there as trainee engineer just now ........

1. Name
Michael J. Connell
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Six Sigma Black Belt
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Sensor Manufacturing
4. Company you work for and location
Airpax Corporation, Frederick MD
5. Length of time in quality function
13 Years
6. Something personal that sets you apart
7. Your pet peeve in quality
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?

1. GySgt Christopher Bailey
2. Production Control NCOIC
3. Aircraft Maintenance
4. USMC
5. 21 years active Marine, Six Sigma Certified Green Belt, 17 years Quality Assurance.
6. I say what I think....carefully
7. Over zealous incorporation of a little understood program or process.
8. Learn to create a collective understanding of quality and process improvement.

HI to all the new members

I hope we at the forum can be of great help and we will appreciate your contribution in quality. Lets all strive to one goal, a world with less variation.

Hello All,

1. My name is Jack Tsui;
2. My job title is R&D Engineer;
3. My profession is manufacturer of sprayer products;
4. Factory located in Hong Kong;
5. Long time involvement in QS functions prior to current capacity;
6. Let's change the quality culture bit by bit.

------------------
Best
Jack

1.sowmen
2.Q.A Engineer
3.11 years exp.

Hi to everyone,

Good idea to give a short introduction; here's mine:

I come from Germany, 42 years old.
I've studied 'medical computer science'.
Jobs:
- SW engineering for blood diagnosis devices (7 years)
- Consultant for computerized systems validation / GMP - consultancy for pharmaceutical companies (3 years - tough but extremely interesting)
- Quality engineer / management for medical imaging company (6 years now).

Live in South Germany (next to the Alps).

OK, that much for now. Feel free to contact me ...

Peter

Welcome :cool:crew - QC from TN some of us have "...greatness thrust upon them" make lemonade when you get handed a bunch of lemons - and Shawn Ann - I'd rather be you than a boy named Sue. Shy Poster (last week) Variety is the Spice of Life. Return often and browse around I just found some advise on purchasing a laptop for home. :)

Hi Everyone,

I am new to this group

Name - Dave Kamboj
Title - They dont want to tell me, but I do everything related to Quality, CNC
Profession - Manufacturing Engineer
Industry - Automobile, Tool & Die, Aerospace - I mostly train people
Most Respected - Has to be Deming


I need some tutorials on PPAP, APQP; preferably in Powerpoint format. please feel free to contact:

dave.kamboj(at)gmail(dot)com

hiii.....
this side meenu.working in relcom engineering Pvt. Lmt. as a Astt. Quality manager....

Hello!
I have been using your forum since 2005 and it'a about time to a least say Hello!

1. I am Igor Belosevic from Croatia
2. Quality and environmental management consultant
3. After 8 years in merchant marine (where I was first introduced to QM) I started working in consulting company
4. Varazdin, Croatia
5. 3 years
6. I'm passionate about continual improvement

I hope to be more active in this forum after this post!

Hi to all.
My name is Con Giagtzis and I have joined your community today.
I am from Adelaide in South Australia.
Most of my career has been in the Automotive Industry (tier 1) until recently where I now am employed as a Quality Manager in a company which manufactures Heating and Cooling products and are exported globally.
My main role here is to introduce systems which have been in use throughout the automotive manufacturing sector but have not yet been embraced by other manufacturing areas.
It's a bit of a battle but hey, if your going to make an omelette, you have to break a few eggs!
Regards to all.
Con.:bigwave:

Welcome to all our newcomers!:bigwave:

It's nice to see folks from all over the world come together to share knowledge and foster awareness of the VALUE of Quality in products and services.

Here I go as well

1. Name- Yan Li
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality Engineer and Professional automotive auditor in China
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Electronics, Material, Mechinery
4. Company you work for and location
International Quality Services , China
5. Length of time in quality function
15 years in quality system related
6. Something personal that sets you apart
Live in Guangdong, near Hongkong
7. Your pet peeve in quality
Top management no concept for QMS
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Make every position competent

1. See above

2. Quality Leader

3. Rotational Molding and Filtration Products

4. DCI

5. Well give or take a few here and there, roughly 8 years

6. Probably the one person in history who got thrown in jail and still got
custody of my kids........can you say :mg:

7. When quality only exists until there is a customer complaint or some other internal issue.

8. I would like to see everyone at the company take a rotation through each department, to see what other individuals have to deal with.

1. Name- Michelle Doran
2. ISO/6 Sigma Coordinator
3. Industry you're in or have been in
As of right now, customer repair center for digital display and digital media
4. Company you work for and location
LG Electronics Huntsville, AL
5. Length of time in quality function
11 years in quality and related fields
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I've only been in this position for two weeks
7. Your pet peeve in quality
At the moment, management wants to stay ISO compliant but without bothering anyone. They are too busy. :frust:
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do?
Hopefully, it would be for everyone to understand that the quality of the product is not just a job for the Quality Department.

Welcome!:bigwave:
We all face challenges. The only difference may be whether we can successfully separate the challenges that matter from the ones that don't.

Re: rotating through the various positions
I worked summers and some nights while going through college at the big (1/2 billion $ yearly sales) steel distribution center where my dad worked. I worked almost every job in the warehouse except overhead crane operator (not good enough depth perception in qualifying test.) Working right along with me were the "management" trainees (really mostly sales trainees) who spent six months rotating through all the jobs in the warehouse so they had a good "feel" of what went on to get an order out the door. Together, we ran bar saws, plate burners, sheet shears, coil slitters, etc. Seemed to work (plus, once wearing their white collars, they retained rapport with the folks in the warehouse.) Helped me a lot in my own subsequent career to know what things were like working at ground zero.

The system sure separated the wheat from the chaff. There was about a 25% drop out rate before they graduated to a white collar.

Re: 6S, etc.
Good luck!

Lionel F.
Quality Engineer
I have been in
Telecom, Military Industry, Aeronautics
I'm working for Segula, France
5 years in Quality

My pet peeve in quality
"This is a quality problem, so it is for Quality guys, it doesn't concern me."

If I could change the world of quality, I would you
ban the word "qualité" in all French standards and internal procedures.

ok here goes

1. Name - Jill F
2. Project Manager
3. Retail
4. New Clicks S.A.
5. 2yrs
6. iam consistent
7. products that that are whishy, washy!
8. dont reckon that will happen easily, different folks have different strokes

A big hello :bigwave:to all the newcomers! Thank you for taking a minute and dropping by! Thanks also for letting us know a little about you.

Welcome to the Cove! We look forward to your input!

1. Name - Ray Cervelli
2. Job Title - Company Director
3. Industry - Automotive Components Manufacturer
4. Location - Melbourne, Australia
5. Length of time in quality function - some 5 years in the early 80's.
6. Something personal that sets you apart -
7. Your pet peeve in quality - Quality Practioners who believe that senior management only pays lip service to that function.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - Revert back to a common sense approach and let all senior execs. respond to an 8D report and discuss the issues with the end user.

1. Don Reid
2. QA Manager
3. Precision engineering (machining)
4. Shearline Precision Engineering, Ely, Cambridgeshire, England
5. 25 long years!
6. Not taking life too seriously
7. A customer QA rep who beleives he is better than you, or is more knowledgeable, simply because he is your customer
8. Make people aware that theer is not a lot that is new in the field of quality assurance; it is re-packaged, re-branded or re-labelled. Most of it is basic common sense.

1. Nigel Madan
2. QA Engineer
3. Oncology (Manufacture, Installation & Service)
4. Crawley UK
5. been on the Q Road since 1985
6. Can juggle... lol
7. People who say, "I hear what you are saying", but clearly don't.
8. Harmonise USA and Europe

1. Alexis McCann
2. Quality Systems Development Manager
3. Medical Device
4. Scotland
5. 12 years
6. Nothing springs to mind
7. Rude or aggressive e mails
8. Others perception of Quality as a police force

1. James D Trixler
2. Quality Manager
3. Heavy Gauge Sheet Metal, RV & Heavy Truck Industry
4. Maron Products INC
5. I took this position a weeks ago, but I have been in the quality area for 5+ years
6. ?I am not sure what sets me apart?
7. My Pet Peeve??? I am not sure...yet...
8. I am too new at this game...

1. Nigel Madan
2. QA Engineer
3. Oncology (Manufacture, Installation & Service)
4. Crawley UK
5. been on the Q Road since 1985
6. Can juggle... lol
7. People who say, "I hear what you are saying", but clearly don't.
8. Harmonise USA and Europe

Hello Nigel! Welcome to the Cove!

Of course, you know, everyone in quality has to know how to juggle! :lol:

We're really glad to have all the newcomers!

Welcome to all new users/posters and Greetings from Malaysia.

I've notice a trend:
1. A gradual increase in registered users from the medical/ medical device fraternity - I think it reflects the trend in the industry
2. A noticeable increase of registered users from the UK.

Overall, It's good for the cove.

1. Name - Ray Cervelli
2. Job Title - Company Director
3. Industry - Automotive Components Manufacturer
4. Location - Melbourne, Australia
5. Length of time in quality function - some 5 years in the early 80's.
6. Something personal that sets you apart -
7. Your pet peeve in quality - Quality Practioners who believe that senior management only pays lip service to that function.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? - Revert back to a common sense approach and let all senior execs. respond to an 8D report and discuss the issues with the end user.

I have to agree with you. One finger pointing out is three pointing back. I was in that position before and had since moved out and not looking back (at that narrow hole).

Hi all the new friends!

It is great that the forum is expanding everyday. I can see a mixture of skills and experiences from a wide range of industry verticals.

Hope you all would find the forum more exciting and share all the experiences and doubts if any, on the message boards.

Welcome on board ... new guys

Suresh

1. Aimee Siegler
2. Global Compliance Manager
3. EMS provider
4. Benchmark Electronics, Winona, MN
5. ~15 years
6. I used to sing semi-professionally; I walk marathons; I love football.
7. Failing to use the tools and then blaming the tools for the problem
8. Find new ways for people to learn from each other.

1. Anthony Houghton

2. Amongst other things, Quality Assurance Representative

3. Maintenance Engineer by trade and now work for a Medical Devices company

4. Medical Models Ltd, Twickenham, England

5. 10 months

6. The ability to listen, absorb, assess, figure out and then get totally confused :bonk:

7. Writing procedures

8. Have the standard (ISO 9001) written in plain English, simple terms, that even my boss can understand

;)

Hello,

I am Nitin Aloni
Based in Maharashtra State Pune City in India.
Teaching is my profession and learning new management concepts is my passion.

Nitin

Ok, I'll jump!
1. Name Mike
2. Job Title or explanation of what you do
Quality Manager -
3. Industry you're in or have been in
Maintenance and Logistics Services for the US Army
4. Company you work for and location
ITT Systems Division - Kuwait
5. Length of time in quality function
On paper, 6 years - in reality, most of my adult life.
6. Something personal that sets you apart
I enjoy flying sailplanes. The type with 20 meter fiberglass wings and body. A weekend of flying will put a big :) on my face all week long.

1. Name:

John J Black

2. Job Title or explanation of what you do:

Consulting Engineer & President of JJBlack & Associates, Inc. We specialize in Process Improvement Consulting – ISO systems development, simulation modeling, reliability modeling, process & value stream mapping, etc.

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

Many years in the machine tool industry working my way up from a machine operator, to a journeyman tool maker, engineer, graduate college instructor and consultant.

4. Company you work for and location:

JJBlack & Associates, Inc.
5. Length of time in quality function:

Intrinsically all my life as “quality” must be part of every job

6. Something personal that sets you apart:

See ‘Background’ on http://jjblack.net

7. Your pet peeve in quality:

That there are sill companies that think can add on 5 pounds of quality on the back of the truck delivering their product.

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

Help people, organization, companies to build in ‘quality’ into their internal processes to improve their products or services.

JJB