ASQ 0511 - Regional Activities

Nearby ASQ Sections

These sections all have regular meetings and offer a variety of other services. Visit the individual websites for additional details.

• Baltimore Section 502

• Harrisburg PA Section 503

• Philadelphia Section 505

• Delaware Section 506

• Washington, DC & Maryland Metro Section 509

  • ASQ 509 General Membership Meeting
    Date: 16 April 2019 – 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
    Topic: Capture and Deploy the Voice of the Customer
    Speaker: Tony Belilovskiy

• Richmond Section 1104

• Blue Ridge Section 1108

• Pee Dee Section 1124

• Northern Shenandoah Valley Section 1131 Your Quality Resource in the Northern Shenandoah Valley

  • The Northern Shenandoah Valley Section will host two FREE virtual professional development opportunities in the next few weeks. Registration is required to receive the links. Certificates of attendance will be provided afterwards for those needing certification points.
  • April 2020 Meeting — Innovation and the Critical Role of Star Customers
  • When: Monday, April 13th 7 – 7:15 pm – business meeting; 7:15 – 8 presentation & discussion
  • Where: virtual
  • Cost: FREE
  • Not all customers are equal. Some people have a disproportionate influence over what others think, how they vote, and what they buy. Some excellent research puts these "Influentials" at 10% of the population. Those influential people that are also extremely well‐connected are called Star Customers and account for 3 to 5% of a given population. Star Customers™ can be a wonderful source of innovation and feedback, as their connections with others enable them to speak for a much broader audience. Because of this link to so many others, they are also able to synthesize what they hear, and reveal new insights.
  • Attend this virtual session to learn about Star Customers, their role in innovation, how to find and grow such customers and what they can and cannot do for your business; examples will be shared from Apple and WL Gore.
  • Presenter: After working in sales, service, maintenance and operations positions, and spending two years in the Marine Corps, Kai Dozier started several small businesses and realized that he most enjoyed helping leaders solve real business problems. Along the way he helped Ford improve quality, Kroger improve creativity, Gore improve innovation, Kimberly-Clark and P&G improve leadership — and all improve customer focus, sales and profitability. He developed a problem-solving methodology that is tailored and transferred to his customers in workshops utilizing their real issues, and supported by a guidebook and follow-up. There is one key that distinguishes his work: putting the customer at the center — hence "Customer-Centric Problem Solving" and "Customer-Centric Innovation"
  • Register by noon, April 10th at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/99918529010
  • May 2020 Meeting — Wheel of Fortune — Product Wheel Scheduling Explained
  • When: Monday, May 18th 7 — 7:15 pm business meeting, 7:15 — 8 presentation & discussion
  • Where: Virtual
  • Cost: FREE
  • Attend this virtual session to learn how product wheels provide a powerful way to manage the scheduling of manufacturing lines that must produce several or many product types. The most obvious benefit of wheel scheduling is the increased throughput achieved through fewer and simpler product changeovers. A more subtle benefit is the improvement in quality by better grouping of products (for example, organic, gluten free or allergen containing products). The wheel concept will be described, with examples of several successful applications.
  • Presenter: Peter King, President Lean Dynamics has over 30 years of experience in a Fortune 100 Chemical company with assignments in R & D, manufacturing automation, system analysis, lean manufacturing and supply chain improvement. King has a BSEE from Virginia Tech, graduating Cum Laude. He is Six Sigma Green Belt Certified (2001) and Lean Manufacturing Certified (University of Michigan, 2002). He is certified as a supply chain professional (CSCP) by APICS ‐ the Association for Operations Management.
  • Peter and his daughter are authors of three books dealing with lean in the process industries
  • What is a Product Wheel? A product wheel is a visual metaphor for a structured, regularly repeating sequence of the production of all materials to be made on a specific piece of equipment. The overall cycle time for the wheel is fixed and the time allocated to each product ("spoke") is relatively fixed, based on the product's average demand over the wheel time. The sequence of products is fixed to result in the lowest total changeover time or the lowest overall changeover cost.
  • Register by noon, May 15th at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/92746183331

  Other Groups:

  • Configuration Management Working Group

  • The INFORMS Maryland Chapter

  • The Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), National Capital Chapter

  • Maryland Performance Excellence Awards

  • Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute (Mtech)

  • SPQA

  • SPQA Forum, Programs, Solicitations and Deadlines
  • The Virginia SPQA is an an organization committed to the mission of Continuous Improvement through the administration of Senate Productivity and Quality Award (SPQA) and recognizing the highest caliber of performance excellence. Since 1982, Virginia SPQA has served organizations of all sizes from all sectors, and honored over 80 organizations with the prestigious Medallion Award in recognition of their achievement of performance excellence. We have trained hundreds of Examiners in the Baldrige criteria and methodologies to serve our Awards program and to support their own organization’s journey to performance excellence.
  • We have heard from our past volunteer examiners who offer that volunteering for the SPQA has enhanced their career through knowledge enhancement and networking and has provided a sense of purpose and giving back to the community. By volunteering and supporting the SPQA mission and you are directly helping organizations get to that next level of performance through providing actionable feedback and leveraging the Baldrige Criteria for Performance Excellence.
  • Please consider an opportunity to volunteer as an examiner for the Virginia Senate Productivity and Quality Award (SPQA) Program, your state Baldrige affiliate program.
  • The Examiner Application Form is here and applications are now being accepted through December 3, 2021. Please review the Examiner Requirements noted in the application form to be sure you are able to fully commit to this critical volunteer activity and the proposed training dates.
  • The 2022 Award cycle will start in January 2022. We are planning on virtual training that blends Examiner training with criteria review, starting in December, once accepted. This will be provided at NO COST to our Examiners once accepted to the 2022 Examiner Class.
  • If for some reason you are unable to commit to a full award process, there are other opportunities for volunteering. These volunteer opportunities have less time demands but still provide significant contribution to our SPQA Mission. These include:
    • Training/ Facilitation
    • Discovery Team (3-month commitment for reviewing a Discovery Application)
    • Operational Projects (Micro-Volunteer opportunities) to support the ongoing work of the SPQA.
  • If these alternative volunteer opportunities are of interest, please complete the Examiner form and send an email directly to henrisa.haskell@spqa-va.org or james.spengler@spqa-va.org to express your desire for these micro-volunteer activities.
  • We look forward to having you join a very worthwhile cause (helping organizations in their improvement journey) and network with passionate, forward-thinking individuals who sign up to be Baldrige Examiners for the SPQA.

  • The Virginia Association for Healthcare Quality

  • The Washington DC Chapter of the Project Management Institute

  • Washington, DC Software Process Improvement Network (DC-SPIN)

  • WINFORMS: The Washington DC Chapter of INFORMS