ASQ 2011 Quality Symposium at Penn State Great Valley School near Philadelphia

National Quality Month Statistical Symposium

Friday, October 7
8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
The Conference Center Building at Penn State Great Valley
Directions to Penn State Great Valley

The cost of this event is $40, which includes a continental breakfast and box lunch.
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In celebration of National Quality Month, the Philadelphia Section of ASQ and the Engineering Division of Penn State Great Valley will once again sponsor a symposium on statistical methods useful to quality practitioners. The theme is “Partnering Quality and Statistics.” The goal is to give attendees some useful facts and tools that can translate readily into practice.

Agenda / Abstracts / Presenter Bios

Keynote Speaker
The keynote speaker, Julia C. O’Neill, principal engineer, Merck & Company Inc., will present “Statistical Engineering: A Case Study in Vaccine Supply Chain Management.” O’Neill will show how the principles of statistical engineering apply to a major corporate development program. The keynote address will be followed by two parallel sessions.

Session 1 - Quality Standards: Principles & Practice
Session one will include: “ASTM International: Developing International Voluntary Consensus Standards” presented by James P. Olshefsky, Director, External Relations, ASTM International, and “Testing for Outliers: Practical and Philosophical Considerations” presented by Thomas J. Bzik, Sr. Research Associate, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

Session 2 - Process Improvement and Control
Session two will include: “Designing and Running Super-Efficient 2k Experiments: Optimum Blocking With Multiple Hard-to-Change Factors” presented by James M. Lucas, J.M. Lucas and Associates, and “When to Use a CUSUM for Counts and Design of CUSUMs for Counts” presented by Darwin J. Davis, associate professor of operations management, University of Delaware.