October 21, 1997

MEMORANDUM

To: Quality and Productivity Research Conference Steering Committee Members

From: Lisa M. Gill

Statistical Engineering Division, NIST

Subject: Minutes of the October 15, 1997

Steering Committee Conference Call

10:30 am - 12:30 pm E.T.

Present: Veronica Czitrom, Lisa Gill, Jeff Hooper, Tim Keyes, Ai-Chu Wu

Next Meeting: Conference Call

Wednesday, January 14, 1998

10:30 am - 12:30 pm E.T.

Call-in #: 908-559-0052

Access Code: 217355

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 October 15, 1997 Steering Committee Meeting

2. Agenda for January 14, 1998 Steering Committee Meeting

3. Steering Committee Member List (update 10/20/97)

4. Updated 1998 Conference Program (from WWW)

5. 1997 Quality and Productivity Research Conference Budget

Meeting Highlights:

1. Review of Open Actions Items

(items where status has changed or were discussed)

All actions items related to updating manual are on hold until Veronica assistance.

97.08 Closed

97.09 Moved to 97.07b, combining mailing lists

97.14 Closed

97.15 Veronica will set up meeting with Jeff Hooper and Susan Devlin to resolve issue of conference account

97.17 Pending: waiting for Boeing to give final confirmation of hosting 2000 conference; they should let Jeff know by the end of November.

97.18 Pending: Rob Easterling felt the best time for a joint conference is in 2000; he will get back to either Jeff or Tim by the end of November.

97.19 waiting on computer for Jane to use

97.21 Closed

97.22 Closed: too early to pass out brochure, so was not done.

New Action Items

97.23 Veronica will send a copy of the 1997 conference budget to Lisa to go out with next minutes. (Veronica)

97.24 Confirm whether conference money has been deposited in account. (Ai-Chu)

97.25 Set up conference call between Jeff Hooper and Susan Devlin. (Veronica)

2. Review of 1998 Conference - Ai-Chu Wu

Program updated and available on the WWW (see URL).

Waiting for speakers for the Microsoft session.

Need to send advertisement to Amstat News and IMS.

Need to have a bus from the hotel to HP site for Friday tour.

Schedule steering committee meeting from 11:15 am to 2pm, with boxed lunch.

3. Other Business

Correspondence not to be sent to R. Hoerl.

Discussion of the amount of money in the Q&P Section account. Possibly transfer all the funds to the current conference account to resolve ASA's uneasiness with account.

1999 Conference - Tim Keyes

Spoke with R. Easterling about joint 1999 conference; conference will not be joint in 1999, but possibly in 2000.

Dates of conference tentatively set for May 19-21.

1. Action Items

Number		Action Item		Responsibility
97.01		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
97.02		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
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
97.04		Produce a WORD document version of the Conference Manual by August 31, 1997, and email this WORD document version to Ramon. Status: Open		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: Open		V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.07 97.07a 97.07b 97.08 97.09 97.10 97.11		Get the 1997 Conference Mailing List in an EXCEL file Status: Open Hire someone to put mailing list in electronic form Status: Open Combine 1995, 1996, and 1996 mailing lists. Status: Open Get the 1995 Conference Mailing List to V. Czitrom by 6/1/97. Status: Closed 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) Close out the 1997 conference budget by June 30, 1997, if possible or by August 1, 1997 at the latest. Status: Closed Add Ramon Leon to Steering Committee as Webmaster. Status: Closed		A. Wu D. McCarville V. Czitrom J. Ballweber V. Czitrom J. Ballweber 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

Number 97.13 97.14		Action Item The 1997 Conference Program will be summarized and included in the Conference Manual in Section 7 on Information on Previous Conferences Status: Open Set up the 1998 Conference Financial Accounts and get this information to Jeff Hooper by July 31, 1997 Status: Closed		Responsibility V. Czitrom J. Ballweber Ai-Chu 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: Open		J. Hooper
97.16		Add information to the Conference Manual on setting up Conference financial accounts. Status: Open		V. Czitrom J. Ballweber
97.17		Invite hosts for the 2000 Conference by August 31, 1997. Status: Pending response from Boeing		J. Hooper
97.18		Contact Rob Easterling to explore joint SPES/IMS conference in 1999 or 2000 by August 31, 1997. Status: Pending response from Rob		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		Jeff Hooper
97.21 97.22 97.23 97.24 97.25		Update the QPRC Permanent Web Site to include the information supplied by Jeff Hooper by July 31, 1997 Status: Closed Brochures to be set out at JSM 1997 (Ai-Chu will send brochure to Veronica) Status: Closed Send a copy of the 1997 conference budget to Lisa to go out with next minutes. Status: Closed Confirm deposit in the conference account. Status: Open Set up conference call between Jeff Hooper and Susan Devlin to resolve issue of conference fund. Status: Open		Ramon Leon V. Czitrom A. Wu V. Czitrom A. Wu V. Czitrom

Attachment 1

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call Agenda

October 15, 1997

10:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Call In Number: (908) 559- 0052

Access Code: 217355

AGENDA

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

Attachment 2

ASA Q&P Research Conference Steering Committee

Conference Call Agenda

January 14, 1998

10:30 am - 12:30 pm EDT

Call In Number: (908) 559- 0052

Access Code: 217355

AGENDA

Time		Agenda Item		Responsibility
10:30 am - 10:40 am 10:40 am - 11.45 am 11:45 am - 12:00 noon 12:00 noon - 12:15 pm 12:15 pm - 12:30 pm 12:30 pm		Check In and Review of Agenda Review of Action Items Review of 1998 Conference Update on 1999 Conference Other Business Adjourn		All Jeff Hooper Ai-Chu Wu Tim Keyes All

Attachment 3

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Steering Committee Members

October 20, 1997

Name		Address		Telephone & Fax Nos.		E-mail
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 M. 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 Ramon Leon Dan McCarville		GE Co. Bldg K1, 4C29A PO Box 8 Schnectady, NY 12301 University of Tennessee College of Bus. Admin. Dept. of Statistics 331 Stokely Mgmt. Ctr. Knoxville, TN 37996-0532 Motorola, Inc. Sensor Products Signal Products Div. 5005 E. McDowell Rd. Phoenix, AZ 85008		T - 518-387-6789 F - 518-387-5714 T - 423-974-2556 (W) F - 423-974-2490 (W) T - 423-588-9545 (H) F - 523-588-9545 (H) T - 620-244-3990 F - 602-244-5738		keyes@crd.ge.com rleon@utk.edu rvag60@email3.sps.mot.com
Ai-Chu Wu		Hewlett-Packard 1400 Fountaingrove Pkwy Mail Stop 3LS-Y Santa Rosa, CA 95403		T - 707-577-3446 F - 707-577-3977		ai-chu_wu@hp.com

ASA Quality & Productivity Research Conference

Past Steering Committee Members

October 20, 1997

Name		Address		Telephone & Fax Nos.		Email
John Heitmann Eric Lagergren		Corning, Inc. HP-ME-03-079 Corning, NY 14831 NIST NN, Room 353 Gaithersburg, MD 20899		T - 607-974-6299 F - 607-974-8007 T - 301-975-3245 F - 301-990-4127		heitmann_jw@corning.com 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 - 602-244-3990 F - 602-244-5738		rvag60@email3.sps.mot.com
Doug Montgomery		Arizona State University Dept. of Industrial Engr. 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 Attachment 4

1998 Quality and Productivity

Research Conference

The 1998 Quality & Productivity Research Conference will be on May 20 to 22 at the Hilton Hotel in Santa Rosa, California. HP and UC Berkeley are co­sponsors and Ai­Chu Wu and C. S. Cheng are co­chairs. The theme is "collaboration between statisticians and managers, engineers, and policy makers." It will be a mixture of real world case studies and professional summaries of theoretical methods.

The current program and speakers (organizers) are:

Wednesday 5/20/98

7:45­8:00 Tai­Chi Push Hands (Ai­Chu Wu)

8:00­8:30 Breakfast

8:30­8:40 Introduction (Ai­Chu Wu & C. S. Cheng)

8:45­9:00 Welcome

HP Director of Quality, Richard Levitt & UCB Statistics Dept, Peter Bickel

9:00­10:00 Keynote Address:

A Strategy for Robust Design ­­ Making Quality Product with Low Cost University of Michigan, Jeff Wu

10:20­12:00 Session 1:

The interface of statistics and system control theory (MIT, Duane Boning)

12:00­1:30 Lunch

1:30­3:10 Session 2:

HP Case Studies (Ai­Chu Wu)

Greg Kruger, The Supply Chain Approach to Planning and Procurement Mgmt

Danette Taggart, Assessing Quality Information and Value

Greg Larsen, Using Principle Component Regression and Neural Networks to Forecast Semiconductor Test Market

3:30­5:10 Session 3:

Designs for High­Dimensional Problems (RTI, Jerry Sacks)

5:30­7:30 Dinner with Speaker (UCB, Leo Breiman)

7:30­9:00 Ballroom Dance Lesson & Fun (HP, Robert Arnold)

Thursday 5/21/98

7:45­7:50 Tai­Chi Push Hands (Ai­Chu Wu)

7:50­8:20 Breakfast

Thursday 5/21/98 cont.

8:20­10:00 Session 4:

Strategies for variation reduction(University of Michigan, Jeff Wu)

R. Jock Mackay & Stefan H. Steiner, Strategy for Variation Reduction in High Volume Manufacturing, U. of Waterloo

J. C. Lu, Quality Improvement on Multi­Product Electronic Manufacturing Processes, North Carolina University

William W. Li & C. F. Jeff Wu, An Integrated Approach to Parameter Design and Tolerance Design, University of Michigan

10:20­12:00 Session 5:

Case Studies (Kathy Hall)

Peter Bartell, Flexographic Tone Reproduction Optimization Program, AT&T

Contributed papers

12:00­1:30 Lunch

1:30­3:10 Session 6:

Case Studies (NIST) Malcom­Baldridge Award: The Return on Investment and Impact on Quality and Productivity

3:30­5:10 Session 7:

Large Data Set Challenge (Microsoft Research, Usama Fayyad)

5:30­7:30 Dinner with Poster session

Friday 5/22/98

7:45­8:00 Tai­Chi Push Hands (Ai­Chu Wu)

8:00­8:30 Breakfast

8:30­5:00 Short Course

Reliability: Bill Meeker & Luis Escobar, Organizer: Ramon Leon

9:00­11:00 Tour of HP

1:00­5:00 HP Quality/Statistician Mtg.

If you have any suggestions or questions, please contact Ai­Chu Wu at HP (707­577­3446, ai­chu_wu@hp.com), or Professor C. S. Cheng at UCB (510­642­9968, cheng@stat.berkeley.edu).

Attachment 5

1997 Quality and Productivity Research Conference

Pre-Conference Short Course on Teaching DOE

Course Instructor: James Filliben, NIST

Orlando, Florida

May 11, 1997

Income

$2550 Pre-Conference Course (17 @ $150)

$2550 Total Income from course

Expenses

$ 80 2 Projectors

$ 80 2 Screens

$ 51 Food break

$ 272 Food lunch

$ 300 Supplies, pay Jane, Miscellaneous

$ 783 Total expenses from course

Net income from course

$1767 ($2250 - $783)

The net income from the course was shared as follows:

$1000 Quality and Productivity Section of the ASA

$ 767 Quality and Productivity Research Conference funds

1997 Quality and Productivity Research Conference

Orlando, Florida

May 12-14, 1997

Income

$ 5000 Lucent donation

$ 5000 Motorola donation

$ 190 Bus (19 @ $10)

$ 4375 Early registration (25@ $175)

$ 3800 Late registration (19 @$200)

$ 100 Student registration (2 @ $50)

$ 767 Income for QPRC funds from Pre-conference Short Course

$19232 Total Income

Expenses

$ 300 Mears Motorbus

$ 540 Jane's pay 1996

$ 3357 Jane's pay 1997

$ 200 Lucent supplies

$ 23 Long distance phone

$ 65 Kevin Hoffman

$ 810 Peter John (Travel/Hotel/Dinner)

$ 227 Binders

$ 54 Name tags

$ 48 Binder dividers

$ 525 Canvas bags

$ 8363 Food

$ 3040 Rental equipment

$ 450 Hotel rooms for selected students/speakers

$ 500 Miscellaneous

$18502 Total Expenses

Net Income from conference to QPRC funds

$ 730 ($19232 - $18502)

Budget prepared by Veronica Czitrom