About
Members
Members are quality, engineering and management professionals concerned with all types and levels of electrical and electronic products. All types of products are covered, from consumer and commercial grades to the highest quality/reliability grades used for communications, biomedical, nuclear, and aerospace applications.
Vision
To be the best global community for quality and improvement tools, techniques, practices, and bodies of knowledge (BoK) for the electronics and communications industries.
Mission
To attract a new and diverse pool of members to its global community from across the electronics and communications industries worldwide and to add continuous value through bodies of knowledge, professional networking, and skill development
Activities and Services
- Co-sponsors the Annual RELIABILITY and MAINTAINABILITY Symposium with Reliability Division and seven other societies
- Sponsors sessions at national, regional, and local ASQ conferences, including the ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement
- Provides liaison to other professional societies and ASQ divisions
- Publishes a quarterly newsletter, CONTINUITY
Publications
(Distributed only to Electronics and Communications Division Members)
- CONTINUITY, the E&CD Quarterly newsletter
- IEEE Transactions on Reliability (on request)
- Proceedings, Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium
Technical Committees
RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Committee
Goals:
- Invite articles on RoHS for our newsletters.
- Encourage member discussion on RoHS-related issues on the ASQ discussion boards
- Educate the Quality Community on RoHS at future conferences
- Solicit and submit papers on RoHS to ASQ conferences
The committee is looking for members interested in joining the conversation and looking at quality’s role in the management of issues related to RoHS compliance.
WHAT IS RoHS?
RoHS is the reduction of hazardous substances. Legislation is pending, or has been enacted around the world to document and/or reduce the amount of hazardous substances used in manufacturing. What substances are regulated? The primary 6 that are associated with the RoHS designation include: Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Lead, Mercury, Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB) and Polybrominated Diphenylethers (PBDE). Legislation varies around the world. EU RoHS, China RoHS and Japan Green are just some examples of released standards, along with state specific legislation in California in the U.S. Many companies have turned to their quality function to manage their RoHS compliance needs. This includes working with documentation of design requirements, ensuring due diligence is met, and evaluation of the reliability of the new systems. RoHS legislation will ultimately affect any company in the electronics and communications industries.
Committee Chairperson is Kiami Rogers, krogers_asq@verison.net
ECD Electronics Committee:
Goals:
- Invite articles on electronics for the ECD newsletter Continuity.
- Encourage member discussion on electronics-related issues on ASQ discussion boards
- Educate the Quality Community on current electronics issues at future conferences
- Add electronics to the ECD Body of Knowledge (BoK)
- Solicit and submit papers on electronics to ASQ conferences
- Encourage publication of electronics-related articles in Quality Progress, Quality Digest and other publications
- Reaching out to industry
The Electronics Committee covers a wide range of markets including data networking, supply chain management, industrial automation, audio and video systems, security and surveillance, aerospace and many other specialty electronics markets. The products include test equipment, copper and fiber optic cables, connectors, cable management products, power equipment, RFID products and a whole variety of microelectronics equipment.
Manufacturing of electronic equipment has a long history dating back to the early 20th century. Quality and reliability have played leading roles in advancing the development of tools to manage the manufacturing and distribution of electronic equipment. One example is the manufacture of components which reduce failures in the field from harsh environments. Another is automated data collection using barcodes and RFID products.
Electronics and Communications Division History
The Electronics and Communications Division was founded in 1955.
The history of our division is an ongoing effort and, as more information is obtained, it will be posted here. If you have any historical information you would like to share, please e-mail David Fernald at chair@asqecd.org.
Past Chairs:
08-09 Sanford Liebesman
07-08 David Fernald
06-07 David Fernald
06-05 Dawn Onalfo
05-04 Dawn Onalfo
03-04 Woody Rabon
02-03 Woody Rabon
01-02 Ray Klotz
00-01 Ray Klotz
99-00 Neil Pederson
98-99 Neil Pederson
97-98 Lowell Tomlinson
96-97 Lowell Tomlinson
95-96 Woody Rabon
94-95 Woody Rabon
93-94 William Trappen
92-93 William Trappen
91-92 Robert Gusciora
90-91 Robert Gusciora
89-90 Myron Wilson
88-89 Lawrence Johmann
