February 2018 Dinner Event – Improving the Effectiveness of Visual Inspection

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Date/Time: Tue, February 13, 2018, 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM
Location: KAR Auction Services, 13085 Hamilton Crossing, Carmel, IN 46032 map (Please be sure the location is where you expect it to be!)
Cost: Pre-Pay – $20.00, Pay at the Door – $25.00

Topic: Improving the Effectiveness of Visual Inspection

Despite the great strides in machine vision and error proofing methodologies, most manufacturing plants still rely on human visual inspection at various points in their process – especially for cosmetic appearance evaluation. Unfortunately, most production and quality engineers see visual inspection as a “black box” and do not know many of the factors of influence on visual inspection effectiveness. This also often leads to a failure to control the impact factors and to overestimate the potential effectiveness of visual inspection. Learn some of the basics of visual inspection and evaluate your quality engineering of this critical point in your process. Open discussion and participation welcome!

Speaker Bio:

Ted Schorn serves as Vice President, Quality and Technology, for Enkei America, Inc., a producer of aluminum alloy road wheels for automotive application. He has over 35 years of quality experience in automotive, medical and aerospace industries. Ted also serves as President of the Lean Network, Inc. a non-profit organization of Honda suppliers focused on improving their quality through Lean Manufacturing principles. Ted also operates his own consulting company, Schorn Consulting, LLC. He has published scores of technical and managerial papers and is a frequent conference speaker. He was awarded American Foundry Society’s Scientific Merit award for his work in visual inspection in 2008 and is an honorary lifetime member of the society for his Hoyt Memorial Lecture in 2005. AFS is publishing his book, Improving the Effectiveness of Visual Inspection, later this Spring. Ted is a certified Lead Assessor to IATF 16949 and ISO 14001, a Level III certified radiographer and a Senior member of ASQ.

Schedule:

5:30pm Register
5:45pm Workshop
6:00pm Dinner and Networking
7:00pm Presentation