posted 26 March 2000 01:27 PM               

On the other hand I have only one question:

Have you planned to include into the Forums topics like Kaizen, 5 S's, Hoshin and other improvement tools ?

Take care

Qualiman

posted 27 March 2000 12:45 PM               

I saw your post of the 17th, but was waiting for a response from Marc. Either way, any topic you want to discuss, you could fit it into a couple related forums, which would effectively attract a few of us.

So now that you have been discovered, what would you like to discuss first?

Regards,

posted 27 March 2000 01:24 PM               

I really have not thought much about specific forums for each quality tool. I can easily do that if you want to come up with a proposed list.

posted 28 March 2000 06:09 AM               

Create a section for the new ISO 9000:2000 Standard.
For each individual section ie 8.5, 8.5.1 create a thread and let people ask their questions in each section.
You should end up with something like a very useful reference book with information/clarification for each section of the standard.

Regards

posted 29 March 2000 06:15 AM               

I will leave the option to you folks - if you want to start a thread for each section, you are welcome to do so.

In so far as starting a number of new forums - well, suggest a short list and I'll add them. Adding forums is no problem.

posted 29 March 2000 01:07 PM               

Andy's suggestion is a pretty good one. But to your point, many forums may make your maintenance activity a bit cumbersome. I think it is a good idea to get more opinions on this suggestion.

I think that most of the advantages of having a separate forum might be offered by performing a search. However, the search engine may be viewed as an additional, seldom used step.

Regards,

posted 30 March 2000 04:05 AM               

As far as forums for each quality tool or specialty, I'm open to suggestions. If you want me to add a forum you have to agree to monitor that forum.

My experience has been, however, that many 'specialty' forums don't 'succeed'. An example is the AS9001 forum and the VDA forum. I have done this with a few of my 'pet' interests (such as TPM). What we wind up with if I make a forum for every tool, however, is tons of forums to monitor (it's hard enough to watch every forum as it is), increased maintenance for me (the software is pretty lame, actually, but not unexpected for a script based system. Each forum has to be individually maintained - you can't do much globally. I don't want to end up with 100 forums. I personally feel there are too many now.

posted 31 March 2000 01:09 AM               

Hello everyone. When I posted the Kaizen-5"S" topic i wasn«t thinking of opening a "special" Forum but discuss those topics in some place.I agree with Marc to talk about it in the general topics. We cannot overcrowd the forums. I think that a good idea could be put all "starting" or new topics in the general, and in such a case that discussions are rich enough or even over concurred, in that time the forum coordinator will have sufficient evidence of the necessity of place that topic in a private or special Forum.

As always, is a pleasure to talk to you guys