April 8. 1998

MEMORANDUM
To: Quality and Productivity Research Conference Steering Committee Members
From: Lisa M. Gill

Statistical Engineering Division, NIST

Subject: Minutes of the April 8, 1998
Steering Committee Conference Call
10:30 am - 12:30 pm E.T.

Present: Veronica Czitrom, Lisa Gill, Jeff Hooper, Dan McCarville, Angie Neff, Ai-Chu Wu

Next Meeting: 1998 On-site Conference Meeting

Friday, May 22, 1998

11:30 am - 2:30 pm P.T.

Quality and Productivity Research Conference

Santa Rosa, CA

Important URLs:

1998 Conference Homepage: http://www.hp.com/info/qprc/

Q&P Section Homepage: http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~asaqp/

Attachments:

1. Agenda for May 22, 1998 Steering Committee Meeting

2. Agenda for April 8, 1998 Steering Committee Meeting

3. Steering Committee Member List

Additional Meeting: Manual Update

Thursday, May 21 (after dinner in Santa Rosa, CA)

7:45 pm - 9:15 pm P.T.

Participants: Jeff, Veronica, Tim, Ai-Chu (whomever else is interested)

Meeting Highlights:

1. Review of Open Actions Items

(items where status has changed or were discussed)

97.01 Deferred until May 21 meeting

97.02 Deferred until May 21 meeting

97.03 Deferred until May 21 meeting

97.05 Closed. Lisa sent email to Ramon; he said latest version from Jeff is on the web.

97.07 Almost finished. It is a compilation of past conference attendees and the mailing list of the Q&P Section.

97.16 Derferred until May 21 meeting.

98.01 Closed. Six students received scholarships and are presenting at the conference.

98.02 Closed. See March 1998 Issue of Amstat News, page 57.

98.03 Closed. see URL http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~asaqp/qpr/qpr1999.html

New Action Items

98.04 Committee will develop recognition for Stu Hunter at the 1999 conference.

2. Review of 1998 Conference - Ai-Chu Wu

! Program updated with contributed sessions. Available on the WWW (see URL).

! To date, 48 have registered (approx. 5-10% of total will register on-site).

! 22 people already signed up for short course on reliability.

! 15 people signed up for the HP tour.

! Student scholarships were a success. Six students won scholarships and will be presenting contributed papers at the conference.

! A special effort has gone into advertising the conference. A letter describing the conference was sent out to the VP of Quality to top companies. Also, the distribution list has a column for email, which is a good way to reach people.

! Contributed sessions have been arranged, with 14 papers submitted.

! The conference is well organized and everything going according to schedule.

! Tim will talk about 1999 conference at the dinner on the 20th.

3. Review of 1999 Conference - Angie Neff (sitting in for Tim Keyes)

! Conference set for May 19-21. Location is GE Corporate R&D.

! Theme: 6-sigma quality, reliability and design

! Preliminary list of speakers include: George Box, Stu Hunter, Ron Snee, Wayne Nelson and Josef Schmee.

! Tim will talk about conference at the 1998 conference at the dinner on the 20th.

! Having somebody develop the web page for the conference.

4. Other Business

! 2000 conference set with Boeing and joint with SPES. The focus will be on reliability. Contacts are: Andrew Booker, Kayla Stratton and Rita Lai.

! Brainstorm on host for 2001 conference. Previous winner of the Malcolm Baldridge Award may be a good host, since they are motivated to share their success stories.

! On May 19th, at the conference, a Q&P Section meeting to discuss the vision and mission will be held. If interested in attending, see Veronica for more details.

Number	Action Item	Responsibility
97.01	Review Astarred@ items in the 1997 Conference post-mortem and add material to address these items in the Conference Manual. Get the revised version of the conference manual to Jeff Hooper by August 15, 1997. Status: Deferred until May 21 meeting	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.02	Create in the conference manual a brief section on AGuidelines for Session Organizers.@ Include items such as Abring props or specimens to interest the audience. A Complete this section with the revision of the Conference Manual by August 15, 1997. Status: Deferred until May 21 meeting	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.03	Add to the Conference Manual a summary of the 1997 conference in section 7. Also attach samples of invitation letters and thank you letters. Complete by August 15, 1997. Status: Deferred until May 21 meeting	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.04	Produce a WORD document version of the Conference Manual by August 31, 1997, and email this WORD document version to Ramon. Status: Closed	J. Hooper
97.05	Put the Revised Conference Manual on the World Wide Web by September 15, 1997. Status: Closed	R. Leon
97.06	Get the 1996 Conference Mailing List from Eric Lagergren (electronically) by June 1, 1997. Status: Closed	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.07 97.07a 97.07b	Get the 1997 Conference Mailing List in an EXCEL file Status: Almost done Hire someone to put mailing list in electronic form Status: Almost done Combine 1995, 1996, and 1996 mailing lists. Status: Almost done	A. Wu
97.08	Get the 1995 Conference Mailing List to V. Czitrom by 6/1/97. Status: Closed	D. McCarville
97.09	Combine the 1995, 1996, and 1997 Conference mailing lists and mail to Ai-Chu Wu by June 30, 1997. Status: Closed (Moved under 97.07)	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.10	Close out the 1997 conference budget by June 30, 1997, if possible or by August 1, 1997 at the latest. Status: Closed	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.11	Add Ramon Leon to Steering Committee as Webmaster. Status: Closed	J. Hooper
97.12	The Steering Committee meeting minutes will be completed by July 14, 1997 and forwarded to Ramon Leon as a WORD file for posting on the Conference Standing Website Status: Closed	J. Hooper
97.13	The 1997 Conference Program will be summarized and included in the Conference Manual in Section 7 on Information on Previous Conferences Status: Closed (duplicate of 97.03)	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.14	Set up the 1998 Conference Financial Accounts and get this information to Jeff Hooper by July 31, 1997 Status: Closed	A. Wu
97.15	Contact the ASA Financial Director and have $5K from the conference account deposited in the 1998 Conference account by August 31, 1997. Status: Closed ($4000 was deposited)	J. Hooper
97.16	Add information to the Conference Manual on setting up Conference financial accounts. Status: Deferred until May 21 meeting	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.17	Invite hosts for the 2000 Conference by August 31, 1997. Status: Closed (Boeing agreed to host)	J. Hooper
97.18	Contact Rob Easterling to explore joint SPES/IMS conference in 1999 or 2000 by August 31, 1997. Status: Closed (Rob agreed on joint conference in 2000)	J. Hooper
97.19	Complete Analysis of 1997 Conference Feedback & send results to all QPRC Steering Committee Members by July 15, 1997. Status: Closed	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.20	Send Ramon Leon information to include in the Permanent QPRC Web Site by July 15, 1997. Information will include purpose, history, customers, and highlights of past conferences Status: Closed	J. Hooper
97.21	Update the QPRC Permanent Web Site to include the information supplied by Jeff Hooper by July 31, 1997 Status: Closed	R. Leon
97.22	Brochures to be set out at JSM 1997 (Ai-Chu will send brochure to Veronica) Status: Closed	V. Czitrom A. Wu
97.23	Send a copy of the 1997 conference budget to Lisa to go out with next minutes. Status: Closed	V. Czitrom
97.24	Confirm deposit in the conference account. Status: Closed	A. Wu
97.25	Set up conference call between Jeff Hooper and Susan Devlin to resolve issue of conference fund. Status: Closed	V. Czitrom
98.01	Decide on policy to attract student participation. Status: Closed (6 scholarships given)	A. Wu
98.02	Advertise 1999 conference in calendar section of AMSTAT News. Status: Closed (March issue, pg. 57)	T. Keyes
98.03	Create website for 1999 preliminary conference information. Status: Closed	T. Keyes
98.04	Develop recognition for Stu Hunter at the 1999 Conference. Status: Open	Steering Committee

Attachment 1

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call Agenda

April 8, 1998

10:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Call In Number: (908) 559- 0052

Access Code: 217355

AGENDA (update)

Time	Agenda Item	Responsibility
10:30 am - 10:40 am	Check In and Review Agenda	All
10:40 am - 11:45 am	Review of Action Items	Jeff Hooper
11:45 am - 12:00 noon	Review of 1998 Conference	Ai-Chu Wu
12:00 noon - 12:15 pm	Review of 1999 Conference	Angie Neff for Tim Keyes
12:15 pm - 12:30 pm	Other Business	All
12:30 pm	Adjourn

Attachment 2

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

On-site Meeting

Friday, May 22, 1998

11:30 am - 2:30 pm PT

1998 Quality and Productivity Conference

Santa Rosa, CA

AGENDA

Time	Agenda Item	Responsibility
11:30 am - 11:45 am	Review Agenda	All
11:45 am - 1:00 pm	1998 Conference Post Mortem ! What went well ! Opportunities for improvement ! Additions to the manual	Ai-Chu Wu
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	1999 Conference Plans	Tim Keyes
2:00 pm - 2:15 pm	2000 Conference Plans	Jeff Hooper
2:15 pm - 2:25 pm	2001 Conference Plans	Jeff Hooper
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm	Other Business	All
2:30 pm	Adjourn

Attachment 3

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Steering Committee Members

January 20, 1998

Name	Address	Telephone/Fax	Email
Veronica Czitrom	AT&T 9333 S. John Young Pkwy Orlando, FL 32819	T - 407-345-7402 F - 407-345-6990	czitrom@lucent.com
Jeff Hooper - Chair	Lucent Technologies Room C3B03 283 King George Road Warren, NJ 07059	T - 908-559-3026 F - 908-559-2119	jhooper@lucent.com
Lisa Gill	NIST NN, Room 353 Gaithersburg, MD 20899	T - 301-975-4516 F - 301-990-4127	lisa.gill@nist.gov
Roger Hoerl	GE Co. Bldg K1, 4C9A PO Box 8 Schnectady, NY 12301	T - 518-387-4040 F - 518-387-5714	hoerl@crd.ge.com
Tim Keyes	GE Co. Bldg K1, 4C29A PO Box 8 Schnectady, NY 12301	T - 518-387-6789 F - 518-387-5714	keyes@crd.ge.com
Rita Lai	The Boeing Company 777 Quality Assurance Engr. P.O. Box 3707, MS OX-54 Seattle, WA 98124-2207	T - 425-342-8527 F - 425-294-3878	rita.a.lai@pss.boeing.com
Ramon Leon	Dept. of Statistics College of Bus. Admin. University of Tennessee 331 Stokely Mgmt. Ctr. Knoxville, TN 37996-0532	T - 423-974-1636 (W) F - 423-974-2490 (W) T - 423-691-5622 (H) F - 423-691-5622 (H)	rleon@utk.edu
Dan McCarville	Motorola, Inc. Sensor Products Signal Products Div. 5005 E. McDowell Rd. Phoenix, AZ 85008	T - 620-244-3990 F - 602-244-5738	rvag60@email3.sps.mot.com
Kayla Stratton	The Boeing Company 777 Quality Assurance Engr. P.O. Box 3707, MS OX-54 Seattle, WA 98124-2207	T - 425-294-4081 F - 425-294-3878	kayla.l.stratton@pss.boeing.com
Ai-Chu Wu	Hewlett-Packard 1400 Fountaingrove Pkwy Mail Stop 3LS-Y Santa Rosa, CA 95403	T - 707-577-3446 F - 707-577-3997	ai-chu_wu@hp.com

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Past Steering Committee Members

Name	Address	Telephone/Fax	Email
John Heitmann	Corning, Inc. HP-ME-03-079 Corning, NY 14831	T - 607-974-6299 F - 607-974-8007	heitmann_jw@corning.com
Eric Lagergren	NIST NN, Room 353 Gaithersburg, MD 20899	T - 301-975-3245 F - 301-990-4127	eric.lagergren@nist.gov
Dennis Lin	Pennsylvania State University Smeal College of Bus. Admin. Dept. of Mgmt. Science & Info Syst 314 Beam Bus. Admin. Bldg. University Park, PA 16802-1913	T - 814-865-0377 F - 814-863-2381	lin@stat.bus.utk.edu (Internet) DKL5@psuvm.psu.edu (Bitnet)
Doug Montgomery	Arizona State University Dept. of Industrial Engrg. Tempe, AZ 85287-5906	T- 602-965-3836(W) F - 602-965-2910(W) T/F - 602-496-9908	atdcm@asuvm.inre.asu.edu
James White	Eastman Chemical Co. Building 284 P.O. Box 1973 Kingsport, TN 37662-5284	T - 423-229-6607(W) F- 423-229-4880(W) T- 423-239-9361 (H) F- 423-239-7239 (H)	jrwhite@eastman.com jrwhite@ilinkgn.net
Nick Zaino	Eastman Kodak Co. Quality Tech. & Applied Statistics Quality Assurance Svcs, Div Bldg 6, 7th Floor Kodak Park Rochester, NY 14652-3401	T - 716-722-2399 F - 716-722-4415	nzaino@kodak.com