March 2005 Newsletter
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Tours
Would you like to help the section by sponsoring a tour at your place of business? We are always looking for new locations. Please contact Hilda Wise at (920) 969-3627 for more details.

Please Welcome Our New ASQ Members! 
 

Ron Belcher

Linda Roethle

Amber Neu Kaye Shukosky


ASQ Section 1206 Needs You!! 
As we prepare for the next program year, we are looking for a Vice-Chair. This is an excellent opportunity to network with fellow quality professionals and develop additional leadership skills. The Vice-Chair role is a support position to the Chair and spends the year learning about the behind the scenes roles that take place to make the chapter so wonderful. After a year as Vice-Chair, you will have the opportunity as Chair, advising a terrific board of peers. 

Take some time and consider this wonderful opportunity. If interested, please contact any board member. We would be happy to have you as part of our team.
Upcoming Training Opportunities 
Dates Course Title Location Contact
Mar 2-3 Lean Thinking Applied to Service Tampa, FL www.asq.org/ed/courses  (refer to course #05137C)
Mar 2-3 Customer-Supplier Partnerships - An Introduction Tampa, FL www.asq.org/ed/courses  (refer to course #05141C)
Mar 10 ISO 9000/TS16949 Quality System Documentation D.J. Bordini Center, FVTC, Appleton www.fvtc.edu/swreg 

Go to www.asq.org/cs/ and click on Courses for more info.

Get Involved!
Become a Section Volunteer!  
As a section volunteer, you will:
  • enhance your leadership skills
  • increase your visibility in the quality community
  • help develop and support the quality movement
Please contact section chair, or any section 1206 board member to find out how you can contribute.


Notice of ASQ Section 1206 Elections for Fiscal Year 2005 - 2006
Elections for the next fiscal year are approaching! This year we will be voting for a Vice-Chair and Secretary. The fiscal year runs from July 1, 2005 - June 30, 2006. The election will be held at the April 11th dinner meeting following the Oshkosh Truck Corporation tour. Here's how the election works:
1. The Nominating Committee will nominate, at a minimum, one eligible candidate for each elected position. In addition, nominations from the general Section membership can be made as well. Nominations from the general Section membership require the submission of a nomination petition, signed by at least 10 Members, and submission to the Section Secretary prior to the election. 
2. If there is not more than one nominee for an elected position, the nominee shall be declared elected by acclamation at the dinner meeting on April 11, 2005. Any contested positions shall be resolved through an election. 

If you have any questions about the position responsibilities or would like to nominate a candidate for the Vice-Chair and/or Secretary positions, please advise anyone on the Board. We are trying to arrange for job specific training for shortly after the election!

Thank you for your consideration! 
Hilda R. Wise
ASQ Section 1206 Chair
920.969.3627

ASQ Section 1206 Board Meeting Minutes From January 24, 2005
  • Bruce reported that the spring conference is set.
  • Mini-sessions/dinner meetings are set for the remainder of the program year; some details still need to be worked out. 
  • Steve Kiel submitted 1099s to ASQ by the 1/10/05 deadline.
  • The group unanimously agreed that a job placement chair is not a necessary function for our section. Job opportunities will be considered on a case-by-case basis. In general, we will consider for our website/newsletter: jobs benefiting a section member for short periods of time. No recruiters will be considered. Postings can be provided to Headquarters outside of the general rule. 
  • The group agreed that section leadership training would probably be best done after the elections in April for incoming board members.
  • To date, it doesn't appear that we have had attendance at our dinner meetings from Milwaukee membership as a result of publishing in their newsletter. 
  • Mark has started to send electronic newsletters to those who have requested (about 65 members and 4 nonmembers). There was more discussion on combating the cost of the newsletter with many ideas. The following was later agreed upon via a teleconference with Hilda, Ron and Jonna: less information, less pages via hardcopy, additional information could be posted on the website. Mailings need to continue to be sent first class to be timely.
  • We are averaging 182 unique hits per month on the website this program year; up 14% from last year. 
  • Survey will be posted on the website after the spring conference (mid March) for members to tell us what they would like to see in the next program year. 
  • We may need to double the budget for website next program year with our increased dependence on it. 
  • Jim Wenske reported that the rate of new members through November is on a steady downward trend. There were only 2 new members in January. 
  • Jim Wenske shared the financial report with us for Steve. We are operating at a net loss for the year of $3,237; attributed mostly to printing and postage. 

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Supplier Management Learning Opportunities
ASQ's Customer-Supplier Division is pleased to bring two of its most popular courses to Minneapolis (April 18-19), Chicago (April 19-20) and Milwaukee (April 20-21). Quality Audits for Improved Supplier Performance and Supplier Certification: The Quality Link in Supply Chain Management are each 1-day courses, offered on back-to-back days in each of the three cities. While each class has a different emphasis, they are very complementary Supplier Management approaches.
 
Quality Audits for Improved Supplier Performance is taught by Dennis Arter. Topics addressed in this 1-day course include:
  • Supplier Quality 
  • Preparing to Audit 
  • Purchasing Controls 
  • Fieldwork
  • Your Audit System 
  • Reporting Results
  • Follow Up 
Supplier Certification: The Quality Link in Supply Chain Management is taught by Richard Gould. Topics addressed in this 1-day course include:
  • Supplier Certification? 
  • Choosing Suppliers
  • Introduction and Definitions 
  • The Players
  • Specifications
  • What about ISO & Clones?
  • Supplier Performance Measurement

Significant discounts for early registration; attending both courses; or for sending three or more from the same company. For more information; to download a brochure; or, to register for the course, please visit www.asq.org/cs/courses. 

Ask Woody
Dear Woody,  Is there any difference between serial correlation and autocorrelation in regard to independence of sequential data? This comes up sometimes when I am performing a capability study in Statgraphics. An example would be our iron pouring temperatures that we take every fifteen minutes.

Woody says this is a question he will answer himself:
Autocorrelation is most often used in Time Series analysis or simple linear regression (one of the most popular measures is the Durbin-Watson D-statistic) which examines the residuals in the order the data were collected, it looks for a non random pattern. Most of the time autocorrelation uses a lag of one (1) and looks for correlation.

However, correlation could be a lag of two or three or any number. When performing a multiple regression (more than one x variable), any x could have a lag or one x could have a lag with another of the x variables, and in these situations they usually refer to it as serial correlation.

So, you could think of autocorrelation as a particular subset of serial correlation, but the meaning is the same - there is not independence of the x variable(s).

In your situation, I can foresee a situation where the capability study is examining a run chart (the data over time - also known as time series). Large vats of iron take time to heat up and cool down, and you probably have a heating system with a feed back loop that maintains temperature within a band. Sequential readings go from below the average for a while to above until it cools down and the heater kicks in again and brings it back up. When the period of the heating cycle is longer than the sampling interval it would show up as autocorrelation - or the more general terms, serial correlation.

Thanks for your question!

Got a quality question or a problem at work you can’t solve?  How about asking an expert?  You can take advantage of the “Ask Woody” column -- a place to ask questions, share concerns or anything else on your mind.  Email .
 


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