July 9, 1998

MEMORANDUM

To: Quality and Productivity Research Conference Steering Committee Members

From: Lisa M. Gill

Statistical Engineering Division, NIST

Subject: Minutes of the July 9, 1998

Steering Committee Conference Call

10:00 am - noon E.S.T.

Present: Lisa Gill, Jeff Hooper, Tim Keyes, Rita Lai, Angie Neff, Ai-Chu Wu

Next Meeting: Conference Call

Monday, September 28, 1988

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm E.S.T.

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

Access Number: 474-137

Important URLs:

1999 Conference Homepage: http//www.utk.edu/~asaqp/qpr/qpr1999.html

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

Attachments:

1. Agenda for July 9, 1998 Steering Committee Meeting

2. Agenda for September 28, 1998 Steering Committee Meeting

3. Steering Committee Member List

4. 1998 Conference Budget (see included budget.xls, EXCEL file)

5. 1998 Conference participation summary (see qprcsurv.xls and qprcsurv.doc)

Meeting Highlights:

1. Review of Open Actions Items

(items where status has changed or were discussed)

97.01, 97.02, 97.03, 97.16 Jeff is making manual revisions; almost complete.

97.07 Closed

98.04 Discussed (see 1999 conference)

98.05 Closed

98.06 Put in 1999 budget; will be disbursed at the appropriate time.

98.07 Jeff will call Veronica about contact at SEMATECH.

New Action Items

98.08 Combine the 1995, 1997 and 1998 conference participants' list in one EXCEL file.

98.09 Add 1996 participants' list, currently in ASCII format, to the combined 1995, 1997 and 1998 EXCEL file.

2. Review of 1998 Conference

! For future conferences, we still need to concentrate more on marketing.

! Conference made a profit of $113.86

! Workshop took a loss of $848.38; this was mainly due to low fee and cost of instructor's travel. Future workshop fees may be in the range of $200, determined by instructor costs.

! Ai-Chu will call Susan Devlin, ASA, to let her know the conference will cover workshop loss.

! 30 people turned in response forms. The response was very favorable. The majority of participants were satisfied or very satisfied. Only one respondent was not satisfied, but would recommend the conference to others.

! Highlights of the conference will appear in the AMSTAT News.

! Comments were made about the contributed sessions being too short. Possibly allow 25 minutes at future conferences.

! An idea for a session at the 1999 conference: How to present statistical ideas, results and concepts to managers and engineers using a dynamic and interactive approach.

3. 1999 Conference

! Ideas for recognition of Stu Hunter's contribution to the Q&P Conference and Section

! Confer at dinner together with section (Jeff will talk to Veronica about this)

! Testimonials given by key people: George Box, Gerry Hahn, and Jeff

! Ask Stu to be the dinner speaker

! Present Stu with a plaque of gratitude and a very nice gift

• Gift ideas: something for his desk, between $200-$300 (conference will fund), crystal globe,

Nambe dish engraved (www.nambe.com), etc.

! Theme has changed to: 6-sigma quality: Accomplishments, Opportunities and Challenges.

! There will be two workshops to serve both communities. One will be more technical with statisticians as the primary audience. The other will be for non-statisticians, more concept oriented. The workshops will be 1/2 day. Possible instructors include: Roger Hoerl, Bill Hill, someone from Connecticut Quality Council (out of Hartford, they specialize in training 6-sigma). Fee will be around $100.

! Bill Meeker has agreed to be a speaker.

! Brochures will be handed out at the upcoming ASA JSM in Dallas.

4. 2000 Conference (Joint with SRC)

! Theme: Statistics for the 21st Century

! Need to move the date due to conflict with another conference in Seattle at the same time. Will look into moving it to the first week of June

! In the process of obtaining additional sponsors, possibilities are: Microsoft, StatSci, Weyerhauser, Battelle, Siemens.

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: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
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: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
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: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
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: Open	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: Closed Hire someone to put mailing list in electronic form Status: Closed Combine 1995, 1996, and 1997 mailing lists. Status: Closed	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: Open	V. Czitrom J. Ballweber J. Hooper
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)	J. Hooper
97.19	Complete Analysis of 1997 Conference Feedback & send results to all QPRC Steering Committee Members by July 15, 1997. Status: Open	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 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 conferencc. Status: Open	Steering Committe
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: Open (budgeted for 1999, will be disbursed at that time)	T. Keyes
98.07	Make preliminary contacts with Sematech and TI for hosting 2001 conference. Status: Open	V. Czitrom
98.08	Combine the 1995, 1997 and 1998 conference participants' list in one EXCEL file. Status: Open	A. Wu
98.09	Add 1996 participants' list, currently in ASCII format, to the combined 1995, 1997 and 1998 EXCEL file. Status: Open	T. Keyes

Attachment 1

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call

Thursday, July 9, 1998

10:00 am - noon EST

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

Access Number: 474-137

AGENDA

Time	Agenda Item	Responsibility
10:00 am - 10:10 am	Check-In and Review Agenda	All
10:10 am - 10:30 am	Review of Action Items	Jeff Hooper
10:30 am - 11:00 am	Review of 1998 Conference ! Budget ! Participant Satisfaction ! Update Manual	Ai-Chu Wu
11:00 am - 11:15 am	1999 Conference Plans ! Recognition of Stu Hunter	Tim Keyes
11:15 am - 11:30 am	2000 Conference Plans	Rita Lai
11:30 am - 11:45 am	2001 Conference Plans	Jeff Hooper/ Veronic Czitrom
11:45 am - noon	Other Business	All
Noon	Adjourn

Attachment 2

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call

Monday, September 28, 1998

1:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

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 - 2:15 pm	1999 Conference Plans ! Recognition of Stu Hunter ! Workshop ! Sessions/Speakers ! Marketing ! Other	Tim Keyes
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm	2000 Conference Plans	Rita Lai
2:30 pm - 2:45 pm	2001 Conference Plans	Jeff Hooper/ Veronic Czitrom
2:45 pm - 3:00 pm	Other Business	All
3:00 pm	Adjourn

Attachment 3

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Steering Committee Members

Updated: July 9, 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, 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
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@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