The Original "Introductions" Thread started in 2001 and split off October 2009

[biomarine]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

Good Morning All!
Name: Rich King
Job Title: Quality/Business/Marketing Consultant
Industry: Manufacturing, 35 years(Primarily Defense Industry)
Company:Self-Employed (Bio Marine Industries is my company name)
Length time QA: Directly and indirectly combined about 25 of those yrs.)
Personal: Built primary life support for Navy Seals and EOD (underwater rebreathers, and along with others Beta tested them myself).
Pet Peeve: Almost always, other areas of company believe that quality is the job of the QA/QC function only!
Name of Quality: Unified Harmony

 

[ViktorVM]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

HI.
I'm Viktor.
Born and educated (Mech.Eng) in Bulgaria.
Currently residing in South Africa. Went into Quality field few years ago. Currently QA Manager in a plant supplying Automotive Industry (ISO/TS 16494 certified).
I find this site and the forums very helpfull and full of practical advices and solutions. Keep it running

 

[luciano]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

HI.
I'm Viktor.
Born and educated (Mech.Eng) in Bulgaria.
Currently residing in South Africa. Went into Quality field few years ago. Currently QA Manager in a plant supplying Automotive Industry (ISO/TS 16494 certified).
I find this site and the forums very helpfull and full of practical advices and solutions. Keep it running

wellcome

 

[kirankumar]

Re: Hello all!

Dear All,

Iam Kiran Kumar from India.
Iam M.Sc In Agricultural Chemicals;
Worked in MNC lab for 12 years as a Manager and come into line of Quality consulting 3 years ago.
Iam happy to join the forum where we can exchange our views on various QMS related topics.

Wish ELSMAR a success and the members all the best in getting their quiries answered.
Kiran

 

[Howard Atkins]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

Here is a warm welcome from me as well.

 

[atchukorn - 2011]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

1)My name is Atchukorn T. I'm stay near Donmuang Airport,Thailand.
2)Job Title is the freelance for TS16949, EMS and OHSAS.
3)I have experience in PC 1.2 Yrs in automotive field, IE 1.2 Yrs in Semiconductor field,Manufacturing 1.2 Yrs in PCBA and Quality 13 Yrs with UL Mark.
4)I'm a subcontractor of UL
5) 13 Yrs
6) Play snooker and basketball
7) Mgmt lack of quality mind.
8) give the right knowledge to concerned person and learned from them also and hope they have quality mind to improvement the quality, productivity and compettive position.
9) I graduated in MBA
If you have a good training courses. please reach to me at 09-177-6290

 

[Beerguy]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

Name is Tumi from Durban in South Africa, I work for a brewing company as a Manufacturing Development Consultant. My job gets me intimately involved in everything relating to world class manufacturing. I am currently working with my colleagues to figure a Measurement System Analysis standard for our breweing process, so that we can properly account for beerloss. That way we can do proper problem solving to reduce the losses and save the company tons of cash.

 

[56flh]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

1. Rob
2. Quality Assurance Manager
3. Manufacturing: 40 years as machinist, supervisor, and manufacturing engineer
4. Hydraulics products
5. 4 long years
6. Professional musician (46 years) into Corvettes and Harleys
7. Can't stand the acronyms and buzz-words used to describe the quality world.
8. If you could change the world of quality, what would you do? Retire: 2 years to go.

 

[Jim Wynne]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

Welcome to the Cove, Rob

Manufacturing: 40 years as machinist, supervisor, and manufacturing engineer

Come back when you have some experience, OK?

Professional musician (46 years) into Corvettes and Harleys

Then you certainly can't be all bad.

Can't stand the acronyms and buzz-words used to describe the quality world.

I'm with you!

Feel free to jump right in--I'm sure that someone with your background and experience will be a welcome addition.

 

[QAMMAN]

Re: New Folks - Please Take a Minute and Introduce Yourself / Say Hello!

Greetings all,

Ok I'm going to break down and get involved.
I have been using the site now for a few months and have found it very helpful.

I am the Quality Assurance Manager, Management Rep, and Production Scheduler (I know, seems like a conflict of interest) at a small (40 employees) sheet metal manufacturing company in suburban Detoit.

We have been QS now for about 6 years and are pursuing TS registration.

I am down to writing my last procedure for Preventive Actions.

I hate this one because I have always said that a P/A could be written as a Continuous Improvement or a Preventive Action. (I know that I will get conflicting statements on that one LOL)

I have read many postings that have said they combined the C/A and P/A forms as one. It occurs to me that would work fine for QS but not TS.

TS requires a seperate procedure for P/A's and C/A's. I am making the assumption that the two procedures should not be mirror immages of each other so how could the forms be.

One think I like is that TS does not require a procedure for Continuos Improvements but says you will continuouslly improve the QMS.

I am reading this as saying through the correvtive action and preventive action process you are continuouly improving the QMS.

One last point, wouldnt corrective action address root cause more closely than preventive actions? If you are trying to prevent an occurance how would you have a root cause already?

I had a 3rd party internal audit a while ago (that turned into a gap analysis audit because it went so bad) and the auditor told me I need to address root cause as part of preventive actions. I do not see this as part of the standard and do not agree with her.

all opinions are welcome

kindest regards

the QAMMAN

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Preventive Action vs. Corrective Action - What about Root Cause?
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