June 8, 1999

MEMORANDUM

To: Quality and Productivity Research Conference Steering Committee Members

From: Lisa M. Gill

Statistical Engineering Division, NIST

Subject: Minutes of the May 21

1999 On-site Conference Meeting

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Present: Jeff Hooper, Tim Keyes, Rita Lai, Skip Weed (Motorola, for Paul Tobias)

Next Meeting: Conference Call

Wednesday, July 21, 1999

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Call-in Number: 1-888-559-8422

Access Number: 474 137

Important URLs:

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

Attachments:

1. Agenda for May 21, 1999 On-site Steering Committee Meeting

2. Agenda for July 21, 1999 Steering Committee Meeting

3. Steering Committee Member List

Meeting Highlights:

1. Review of Open Actions Items

2. 1999 Conference Post Mortem

What worked well

Special interest breakout sessions on sign up topics (for manual)

Strong Theme ­ Six Sigma

GE strongly identified with the theme

Plenary Speakers on the Closing Panel (for manual)

Instant Feedback Board

Mix of technical and nontechnical talks, application/theory

Strong organizing Committee

Strong administrative support

Strong Company support

Good mix of statisticians and nonstatisticians

Great facilities

Videotaped some key plenary sessions

Copies of papers/handouts/slides on the website (for Manual)

Food was convenient, very good

Recognition for Stu Hunter(for manual)

Parallel Sessions

Advertising for following year at conference (for manual)

Website structure, registering website with search engines (for manual)

All marketing electronic (for manual)

Bus keeps people here

Opportunities for Improvement

Minimal Student Participation, hold student session

Minimal Academic participation

University sponsorship

Site Separate from hotel

Not prepared for high attendance (for manual)

Have a clear policy on numbers of participants

Credit cards?

Hotel rates changed/ reservations confused

Name Tags for difficult names, larger

Inadequate womens restrooms

Security problems with cameras (say no photographic equipment) (formanual)

No nontraditional six sigma talks

Paper dropouts (backup talk)

Email capability (check with hotel on network access)

Constantly post website

Ask speakers to bring slide copies on a disk

3. 2000 Conference (Joint with SRC)

Conference dates are June 26-28, 2000

Theme: Statistical Applications for the New Millennium

Honoring George Box

Honoring someone who has contributed significantly to Quality, Productivity and Statistics as well as the conference is a very nice thing to do. It attracts a very well known person; it gives us something important to do with the large amount of money we are accumulating in the conference fund; it provides a great opportunity for a great after dinner speech; and, it is a lot of fun.

Note: George Box has not been invited yet.

Tentative Agenda

Sunday , PM, Workshop

Monday, Tuesday, Plenary, 3 parallel breakouts, lunch

Monday, dinner, honoring George Box, George's special invited address

Wednesday plenary, 3 parallel breakouts, closing panel, box lunch, tour

Possible Topics

Six Sigma followup

Data Mining (Soren Bisgaard)

Statistical Tolerancing

Reliability modeling

Measurement System Analysis & Uncertainty

VP of Quality (Liz Otis)

U of W ­ Denice Denton Dean of Engr. ­ Soren Bisgaard knows her

Model Validation

Call for Papers for contributed sessions

4. 2002 Conference

Possible conference hosts

Bellcore

IBM

Allied Signal

Nabisco (Lynne Hare)

After the meeting Jeff Hooper spoke with Bill Hill from Allied Signal, and Bill indicated that Allied would be interested in hosting the 2002 conference with the likely location being Morristown, NJ. Bill said that Allied would be interested in revisiting the six sigma theme, since Allied is working hard to implement six sigma. Jeff will send a formal invitation letter to Bill Hill at Allied Signal within the next two weeks.

5. Budget

1999 Budget

Total Revenue (70K ­ 75K)

Surplus (ballpark ­ 20K ­ 30K)

Disposition of Budget Surplus

Give a grant to Q&P Section of $5K (We decided we will do this. I will write a letter to Steve Porzio to get this done once we have the final budget figures in from this years conference. I will also write a presentation letter to Tom Boardman for the Annual ASA meeting.)

Use surplus to fund Q&P honorees (We will use some of the money to support honoring significant contributors as above at our annual Q&P RC.)

Fund Special Invited Lecture Series

Do something special at this conference

Special Student Funding

Combining a significant gift to Q&P Section with Mary Natrella Fund

Number	Action Item	Responsibility
98.01	Decide on policy to attract students 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 1999 conference. Status: Closed	Steering Committee
98.05	Complete final 1998 conference budget and participant satisfaction analysis. Status: Closed	A. Wu
98.06	Arrange for 1999 GE contribution to be transferred to 1999 conference fund. Status: Closed	T. Keyes
98.07	Make preliminary contacts with SEMATECH and TI for hosting 2001 conference. Status: Closed	V. Czitrom J. Hooper
98.08	Combine the 1995, 1997 and 1998 conference participants' list in one EXCEL file. Status: Closed	A. Wu
98.09	Add 1996 participants' list, currently in ASCII format, to the combined 1995, 1997 and 1998 EXCEL file. Status: Closed	T. Keyes
98.10	Determine conference location and hotel accommodations for the 2000 Conference. Status: Closed	R. Lai
99.01	Review "starred" 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: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
99.02	Create in the conference manual a brief section on "Guidelines for Session Organizers." Include items such as "bring props or specimens to interest the audience. " Complete this section with the revision of the Conference Manual by August 15, 1997. Status: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
99.03	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: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
99.04	Put the Revised Conference Manual on the World Wide Web by September 15, 1997. Status: Open	R. Leon
99.05	Add information to the Conference Manual on setting up Conference financial accounts. Status: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper

Attachment 1

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

On-site Meeting

Friday, May 21, 1999

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

1999 Quality and Productivity Conference

Schenectady, NY

AGENDA

Time	Agenda Item	Responsibility
1:00 pm - 1:10 pm	Review Agenda	All
1:30 am - 2:15 pm	1999 Conference Post Morten What went well Opportunities for Improvement Additions to the Manual	Tim Keyes/ Angie Neff
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm	2000 Conference Plans	Rita Lai
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	2001 Conference Plans	Paul Tobias
	2002 Conference Plans	Jeff Hooper
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Other Business	All
3:00 pm	Adjourn

Attachment 2

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call

Wednesday, July 21, 1999

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Call-in Number: 1-888-559-8422

Access Number: 474-137

AGENDA

Time	Agenda Item	Responsibility
1:00 pm - 1:10 pm	Check-In and Review Agenda	All
1:10 pm - 1:30 pm	Review of Action Items	Jeff Hooper
1:30 am - 1:45 pm	1999 Conference	Tim Keyes
1:45 pm - 2:30 pm	2000 Conference Plans	Rita Lai
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	2001 Conference Plans	Paul Tobias
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Other Business	All
3:00 pm	Adjourn

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Steering Committee Members

Updated: April 30, 1999

Name	Address	Telephone/Fax	Email
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
Roger Hoerl	GE Co. Bldg K1, 4C29A 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. PO Box 3707, MS OX-54 Seattle, WA 98124-2207	T - 425-342-8527 F - 425-294-3878	rita.a.lai@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
Angie Neff	GE Co. Bldg K1, 4C33A PO Box 8 Schenectady, NY 12301	T - 518-387-6239 F - 518-387-5714	neffa@crd.ge.com
Paul Tobias	SEMATECH 2706 Montopolis Drive Austin, TX 78741-6499	T - 512-356-7876 F - 512-356-7876	paul.tobias@sematch.org
Chelli Zey	SEMATECH 2706 Montopolis Austin, TX 78741	T - 512-356-7141 F - 512-356-7640	chelli.zey@sematech.org

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Past Steering Committee Members

Name	Address	Telephone/Fax	Email
Veronica Czitrom	AT&T 9333 S. John Young Parkway Orlando, FL 32819	T - 407-345-7402 F - 407-345-6990	czitrom@lucent.com
Lisa Gill	NIST NN, Room 353 Gaithersburg, MD 20899	T - 301-975-4516 F - 301-990-4127	lisa.gill@nist.gov
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)
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
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
Ai-Chu Wu	2019 Crimson Lane Santa Rosa, CA 95403	T- 707-570-2611 T- 707-526-6449	aichuwu@aol.com
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