Executive Committee Agenda
Friday, December 1, 1995
PERSONS ATTENDING:
Eileen Boardman, Boardman Associates
Tom Boardman, Colorado State University
Terri Crosby, Chevron
Veronica Czitrom, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Pat Defeo, DuPont Engineering
Susan Develin, Bellcore
Pat Donnelly, Drexel University
Lynne Hare, NIST
Jim Hess, Leggett & Platt
Roger Hoerl, General Electric
Jeff Hooper, AT&T Network Systems Professional Services
Ramon Leon, University of Tennessee
Bob Mason, Southwest Research Institute
Steve McGuire, Lockheed Martin Energy Systems
Bobby Mee, University of Tennessee
Tim Read, DuPont Engineering
Innis Sande, Bellcore
Lori Thombs, University of South Carolina
Joe Voelkel, Rochester Institute of Technology
ACTION ITEMS FROM THE CONFERENCE CALL:
Tom Boardman, Eileen Boardman and Ramon Leon:
1996-HOMEPAGE-01 Develop a procedure for maintaining
the Q&P Homepage.
Bob Mason:
1996-RM-01 Updates/corrections to Version 2
of the Q&P Operating Manual
Roger Hoerl:
1996-RH-01 Secure additional members for the
Committee on Nominations
Roger Hoerl:
1996-RH-02 Secure additional members for the
Committee to Nominate Fellows
Veronica Czitrom:
1996-CZ-01 Confirm CE course sponsorship for
1996 Chicago Meetings after ASA
approval of submitted courses
Innis Sande:
1996-IS-01 Finalize plans for having a second
Focus Group at the 1996
Chicago Meetings
Tim Read:
1996-TR-01 After receiving 1995 spending reports
from ASA (Penny Young),
compile an updated 1996 Q&P
budget
ITEM DESCRIPTION
RESPONSIBILITY
1. Additions / Changes to Agenda Items Bob Mason
Ramon Leon had to leave the call early to teach class
and requested that his report on
the Q&P Section's World Wide Webb Homepage be moved
to the beginning of the call.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
2. Electronic Communications
Ramon Leon
Q&P World Wide Webb (WWW) Homepage
PAST ACTION ITEM:
1995-RL-01 Ramon was asked to lead the development
of a WWW Homepage for the Q&P
Section.
Ramon reported that the Q&P's Homepage is ready for access at:
http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~asaqp/
Ramon has been named the 1995-1996 webmaster by Bob
Mason and Roger Hoerl. Ramon's
responsibilities is:
The webmaster of the Quality and Productivity Section
has overall responsibility
for the section's homepage and is the leader of
the Q&P Web Team. In addition,
the webmaster is responsible for publishing the
homepage using appropriate World
WideWeb technology.
Tom and Eileen Boardman have agreed to be the editors
of the Homepage. Their
responsibility is:
The editors of the Quality and Productivity Section
homepage have overall
responsibility for the content of the section's
homepage. They are responsible
for soliciting material, editing it, and submitting
it to the webmaster for
publication on the Section's homepage.
Tom and Ramon discussed the need for a basic structure
to maintain the Homepage. Who is
responsible for updating, correcting, and enhancing
the contents in the Homepage.
Ramon suggested that the Section Officers should have
their area of responsibility on
the Q&P Homepage. The officers can submit their
material to Tom, Eileen or Ramon, but
ideally the officers should have their own local homepage
with the Section's homepage
having hyper-text links to them. Tom Boardman supported
the idea that these hypertext
links were critical for the Homepage and would permit
editing to be done by the
officers on the local homepages. The Q&P Homepage
editors would remain responsible for
areas with no clear officer responsibility and for providing
editing input to the
officers on their local homepages. Roger Hoerl asked
what the overall purpose of the
Homepage would be and how it supports the Section's
overall objectives. Roger
suggested that a proposal be prepared by Tom, Eileen
and Ramon describing how best to
handle maintaining the Homepage. Roger also indicated
that Eric Lagergren, Organizing
Chair for the 1996 Q&P Research Conference, would
send Tom and Eileen information on
the 1996 conference for input to the Homepage. Joe
Voelkel asked if people who
accessed the Homepage could submit questions or would
the page be read only. Ramon
informed the group that material in MS Windows MS Word.0 format could be converted into
html format automatically through MS Internet Assistant
software. After more
discussion it was decided that an action item to develop
a procedure for maintaining
the Homepage would be assigned to Tom, Eileen and Ramon
(HOMEPAGE-9601).
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
3. Operating Manual Revision Bob Mason
PAST ACTION ITEM:
1995-DG-01 Operating Manual Revision - Dick Gunst
Bob Mason asked that any changes to the new version
2 of the Q&P Operating Manual
should be sent to him. All officers should have received
copies of version 2 and, if
anyone did not receive one, contact Joe Voelkel. All
extra copies of version 2 of the
Operating Manual were sent to Joe for future distribution.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
4. 1996 Q&P Program for Annual ASA Meetings Bobby Mee
PAST ACTION ITEM:
1995-VC-01 Send 1996 speaker information to Lori Thombs
for use in Q&P Newsletter and
to Soren Bisgaard for inclusion in the Amstat News.
Bobby reported that the Section would sponsor three invited sessions:
Monday morning 10:30 - Statistics for Quality:
Honoring Don Owen
Organizer: Subir Ghosh
The session is designed to challenge the practice
of Q&P improvement by
demonstrating how important it is to collect
pertinent statistical
information. The session is in line with the
dreams of Professor Owens.
Wednesday afternoon - Statistical Methods for Customer
Satisfaction Measurement:
Leading Edge Applications and Research Challenges
Organizer: Susan Devlin
The session will offer three papers presenting
applications to different
corporate challenges and conclude with a panel
discussion of 1)
analytical problems that need to be addressed
rigorously to optimize the
value customer satisfaction survey data has
for corporate decision
making, and 2) methodological controversies
in this growing area of
statistical applications. Susan mentioned
that Jim Drew, GTE
Laboratories, would be a good resource for
future sessions.
Thursday morning - Lessons Learned from Real Case
Studies
Organizer: Veronica Czitrom
This session will consist of recent case studies
from AT&T, Hewlett
Packard and Scott Paper.
There will be two special poster sessions:
Teaching Statistics to Engineers
Examples of Total Quality Management
Bobby asked that anyone with an interest in organizing
a session send their plans to
rmee@utk.edu. The additional session for 1996 was due
to attendance at the 1994 Annual
Meetings and Bobby commented on the need to continue
this attendance if the Section
wishes to maintain or add additional sessions in 1998.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
5. New Officer Appointments Roger Hoerl
PAST ACTION ITEM:
1995-RH-01 New Officer Appointments - Roger Hoerl
Roger reported that Pat Donnelly would be the 1996 Q&P
Newsletter editor. Lori Thombs,
the 1995 editor, will be working with Pat to transition
to the duties of the editor.
The 1996 Q&P Research Conference Chair is Eric Lagergren
and Jeff Hooper agreed to
continue as the Q&P Research Conference Steering
Committee Chair for 1996.
The Homepage editors will be Tom and Eileen Boardman.
The Committee on Nominations will have Jim Hess and
Lynne Hare rotate off this year
leaving Veronica and Joe Skwish, DuPont Company, if
Joe agrees to serve. The time
table for submitting names has been moved up a month
to September. Roger indicated
that the Operating Manual would be the source for who
rotates off committees.
The Committee to Nominate Fellows will have Bob Lundergard
for 1996 but will need two
additional members, one to be the chair.
The following committees Roger would like to change to standing committees.
Membership Committee - Innis Sande
Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee
- Jeff Hooper
Continuing Education Committee - Ramon Leon
Internet / Homepage Committee - Ramon Leon, Tom
& Eileen Boardman
Newsletter Editor - Pat Donnelly
Charter Committee -
ITEM DESCRIPTION
RESPONSIBILITY
6. Continuing Education Veronica Czitrom
Veronica Czitrom reported that Q&P will sponsor
or co-sponsor five Continuing Education
courses at the Chicago meetings:
Analytical Tools for Assessing and Using Customer
Satisfaction Surveys - Susan
Devlin and Terry Gleason
Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TIPS) - Steve Zayac and Val Tsourikov
Statistical Thinking for Business Improvement -
Ron Snee, Roger Hoerl, Lynne
Hare
Reliability Analysis - Larry Leemis
Co-sponsoring, with the Computing Section, Regression
Graphics - Dennis Cook and
Sandy Weisburg
Veronica, after talking with Kathy Crocker (ASA) felt
that these courses would be
approved. Co-sponsorship will be finalized after the
courses are approved.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
7. Q&P Newsletter Lori Thombs
Q&P will have the following articles in the next
edition of the joint Newsletter with
SPES.
Message from the incoming chair of Q&P
Message from the outgoing chair of Q&P
Report on Orlando meetings / courses
Q&P Homepage information
Plans for the Chicago meetings
List of new officers for 1996
The Tools article and the Process Capability Indices
article did not make this edition
but should be ready for the June edition. The deadline
for the June edition is April
30. Q&P has eight pages available for each edition
and Lori welcomed suggestions for
articles. The question of putting the Newsletter articles
on the Q&P Homepage was
raised and this will be pursued and reported on (person
???).
ITEM DESCRIPTION
RESPONSIBILITY
8. Q&P Research Conference Jeff Hooper
PAST ACTION ITEM:
1995-JH-01 Complete content and program for 1996 Q&P
Research Conference by mid Fall -
Jeff Hooper.
Jeff reported that the Q&P Research Conference Fund
is healthy (~$30,000) and that we
recovered about << of the student support dollars
from the 1995 conference. The 3rd
edition of the Conference Manual, which details how
to plan and conduct the conference,
will be available soon. The best time to update this
manual is immediately at the
conclusion of the conference, while all experiences
are fresh in everyone's mind.
1996 Conference: Will be a joint conference with SPES
and IMS, will be sponsored by
NIST and DuPont.
Eric Lagergren is the 1996 Organizing Chair
1997 Conference: Will be sponsored by the University
of Central Florida, the University
of Florida at Gainsville, and AT&T.
Mark Johnson is the 1997 Organizing Chair
1998 Conference: Will be sponsored by Hewlett-Packard
and possibly Stanford University.
??? is the 1998 Organizing Chair
The joint meeting with SPES and IMS will happen every
three years and concentrate on
very technical aspects. Joe Voelkel asked how we could
communicate the Research
Conference outside of the statistical community, to
include other technical areas. The
IMS conference may move to the international stage and
this, along with setting the
dates for the various conferences apart from one another,
should serve to reduce the
competition for attendance and participation.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
9. Membership Communications Innis Sande
PAST ACTION ITEM:
1995-IS-01 Work with Lori Thombs to get information
into the Q&P Newsletter and with
Soren Bisgaard to get material into the Amstat News.
Innis asked if the Section wanted to do the Focus group
at the 1996 Chicago Meetings.
The Focus group was supported for the 1996 meetings
with better publicity to grow the
attendance. The results may be placed on the Q&P
Homepage. Innis indicated that an
open forum is needed for this topic.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
RESPONSIBILITY
10. Treasurer's Report Tim Read
The 1996 budget has been submitted to ASA but no updates
on ongoing expenses have been
received to date from ASA. Tim will contact Penny Young
to check the status of the
expenditures during 1995. Tim will contact Susan Devlin
once he talked with Penny.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
11. Tactical Plans for 1996 Roger Hoerl
The four areas for focus during 1996 and corresponding team members are:
Communication Tim Read, Innis Sandy,
Terri Crosby
Continuing education Veronica Czitrom,
Jim Hess, Steve McGuire
ASQC STAT DIV Roger Hoerl, Bob Mason,
Bobby Mee
Emerging technologies Steve Zayac, Susan Devlin,
Lynne Hare
Two of these teams have submitted plans and the others
will be presented by January 1.
Once all four plans are in the same format they will
be sent to everyone. The WWW
Homepage was recognized as another key initiative for
1996. The Sections use of Amstat
News to publish plans and activities needs to be improved.
Roger will discuss this
need with Steve Zayac. Use of and current updates to
the Operating manual were also
emphasized. Prior to the next conference all officers
must read and verify their job
descriptions in the Operating Manual.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
12. Officer Nominees for 1997 Jim Hess
Candidates for 1997 officers are:
Chair: Veronica Czitrom (AT&T
Bell labs)
Joe Skwish (DuPont)
Program Chair: Eric Lagergren (NIST)
Greg Larson (Hewlett-Packard)
Publication Chair: April Milliken (Milliken Associates)
Susannah Schiller (NIST)
Council of Sections: Geoffrey Vining (University
of Florida)
Richard Bilonick (Scientific Systems,
Consol Inc.)
Jim also reported that the ASA Committee on Sections
discussed the need not to allow
section treasuries to grow too large.
ITEM DESCRIPTION
RESPONSIBILITY
13. Council of Sections Activities Eileen Boardman
Eileen reported no new material other than an additional
request for sections to
support the ASA Homepage through additional funds.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
14. Publications Update Soren Bisgaard
Soren was unable to participate in the call.
ITEM DESCRIPTION RESPONSIBILITY
15. Next Conference Call Roger Hoerl
The next conference cal was scheduled for Friday, January 12th, from 2:00-3:00 EST
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