February 11, 2020 Dinner Meeting, MCL Cafeteria, 86th & Township Line Rd.

Presentation Title: A3 Thinking: Moving from Paper to Practice to Pattern

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Attendees will learn how to teach meta cognitive skill and develop teams to achieve superior quality results by embedding the PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle into the daily routine. The goal of A3 Thinking is to focus on cultivating a continuous improvement mindset as a result of frequently practicing a scientific way of thinking and experimenting via the Toyota Kata. Teams then become more capable, confident and better equipped to address and solve problems and improve processes.

Our Speaker:

Deondra R. Wardelle is a leader, organizer, corporate trainer, licensed health coach, problem solver, motivational speaker and continuous improvement professional. Her focus is coaching, empowering and developing individuals towards achieving their personal and professional goals.

Deondra has a diverse professional background that includes her current role as the Vice President of Human Resources and Continuous Improvement Science at the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), her former role as the Director for a global industry leader, where she and her team were responsible for driving and supporting Continuous Improvement opportunities for more than 70 facilities in North America, Europe and Asia. In addition, she has worked as a corporate trainer, project manager, banking branch manager and has held various roles in operations management.

As the owner of O2TN1 (On to the Next One) Consulting, a licensed Health Coach, Kata Geek, and Lean Six Sigma professional (specializing in Lean Six Sigma and the Toyota Improvement and Coaching Kata ) Deondra’s passion and life’s calling is using Continuous Improvement methodologies via Vision Boards to help change the lives of people by turning their dreams into reality one day at a time.

2019 May – Quality Core Tools Presentation

Eventbrite link for reservations & more information: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-2019-may-quality-core-tools-presentation-registration-60434250470

Topic: Core Tools (PPAP, Control Plans, FMEA, MSA, SPC, APQP)

Come and join us for an excellent presentation about the crucial Quality tools we use or should use to maintain a well controlled, compliant and safe product, no matter what the industry. This presentation is being presented in collaboration with Purdue Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP).

Our Speaker:

Sharon Ohman is currently a Quality Improvement Specialist with Purdue MEP and has over 25 years of Manufacturing experience. She received a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University. She has held several manager and engineering level positions in the Automotive industry at companies such as GenCorp, Trelleborg, and Small Parts Inc. She is also a Certified Lead Auditor for ISO 9001, IATF 16949, AS9100D, and ISO 14001. Finally, her extreme proficiency in the Quality Core Tools of PPAP, Control Plans, FMEA, MSA, SPC, and APQP shall be displayed at the meeting this month.

2019 April 29 Tour

 

Join us on April 29 at the Carson Manufacturing tour!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/indy-asq-2019-april-carson-manufacturing-tour-tickets-59609052280

 

Come tour the production floor of Carson Manufacturing, a contract manufacturer of Emergency Vehicle electronics, rotary switches, and PCB board design and assembly. Carson manufactures rugged, reliable products and they have been doing that for over 70 years. Through continuous development, they have found new ways to engineer durability into each of our models so that each of their 100% American made, dependable line of products is “Tough to the Core.”

March 2019 Meeting

Link to sign up:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/asq-2019-march-system-reliability-and-product-validation-testing-registration-57141318221?ref=ecal

 

Topic: System Reliability and Product Validation Testing

Andre Kleyner, the author of two books on reliability and warranty, will talk about Product Reliability, how it is different from Quality and what it takes to build reliable products.

The presentation will address reliability as an integration of two disciplines:

  • Physics of Failure
  • Statistical Methods

Andre will also cover Design for Reliability and system reliability testing and as it commonly applied in the industry.

March 2017 Dinner Event – Critical Chain Project Management: Applying Lean Principles to Schedule Planning and Execution

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Date/Time: Tue, March 14, 2017, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM EST

Location: Switzer Student Center – Schw013
University of Indianapolis
1400 E Hanna Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46227

Topic: Critical Chain Project Management: Applying Lean Principles to Schedule Planning and Execution
Come to learn if Critical Chain Project Management could provide you or your organization a competitive advantage in managing your next critical project. This discussion explores the fundamentals of Critical Chain and the change management opportunities and challenges inherent in its application.

Just like a factory has inherent waste and variation due to machine or human inefficiencies, a schedule driven project, design, proposal, or other knowledge based team has inherent inefficiencies in their execution schedule due to resource or time mismanagement.

Using Critical Chain scheduling and behavior techniques, a schedule driven team can achieve significant acceleration and predictable performance. Critical Chain scheduling techniques establish a quantified schedule margin, then Critical Chain behavior techniques are established to protect and manage that schedule margin by developing a project management environment using unambiguous prioritization and communication to exploit every acceleration opportunity.

Critical Chain provides an integrated methodology to utilize these common sense practices that are usually lost in schedule management. The challenge is not in the cost, implementation time, or even technical complexity. Rather, the challenge is in the change management of leaders and team members to know and abide by the run rules to make the application of Critical Chain successful.

Speaker Biography: Rex A. Beach, Raytheon Co., Indianapolis, IN
Rex is part of the Operational Excellence team supporting Manufacturing and Repair Operations at Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Service (IIS) in Indianapolis, IN. Rex supports process improvements, process documentation, metrics, and operations support. Rex also supports continuous improvement activities across all functions at the site as a Raytheon Six Sigma Expert (Black Belt) since 2003. Rex has led improvement projects ranging from depot repair operations, production, proposal development, software development and support, human resources, and other support functions and processes.

Prior to becoming a Raytheon Six Sigma Expert, Rex was a Raytheon Project Manager for 5 years for Airborne Radar Repairs, Aircraft Wiring, and other projects and spent 15 years as an Engineer in the Engineering and Quality organizations of the legacy US Navy organizations at the Indianapolis site.

Rex holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rose Hulman, MS in Interdisciplinary Engineering with concentration in Industrial Engineering and Statistics from Purdue University (IUPUI), and an MBA in Operations and Management from Indiana University (IUPUI). Rex has been a certified ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt since October 2007.

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