July 2014 Issue
Making Connections
Advice on building a network of professional connections—including ways to perfect your LinkedIn profile—to get the career you want.
by Marshall Brown
Social Media
Blog Boom
The backstory on blogging from five quality professionals who use the popular medium to learn, create, connect and share.
Metrology
Necessary Measures
Understand the difference between standard and expanded gage repeatability and reproducibility studies and how the latter helps clarify measurement system variation.
Process Capability
First Things First
Before spending precious time and resources establishing process control, determine whether the process can meet customer requirements in the first place.
- Up Front
- Innovation Imperative
- Perspectives [Open Access]
- Quality in the First Person [Open Access]
- Career Corner [Open Access]
- Standards Outlook
- Statistics Roundtable
- Measure For Measure
- 3.4 Per Million
- Back to Basics [Open Access]
- Volviendo a los Fundamentos [Open Access]
- One Good Idea [Open Access]
Former ASQ Board Member Dies
Elías Monréal, an ASQ senior member and a former member of ASQ’s Board of Directors, has died. He was 41.
An ASQ member since 2000, Monréal served on the board from 2011-2013. He also served as ASQ Tucson-Old Pueblo Section chair, vice chair of Section Affairs Council, Region 7 director and ASQ’s Measurement Quality Division membership chair. In addition, Monréal spent four terms as an examiner for the Arizona Quality Alliance’s state quality award.
Monréal, who worked as a quality engineer at Industrial Tool, Die and Engineering in Tucson, AZ, had been selected as one of QP’s 40 New Voices of Quality in a 2011 feature on up-and-coming individuals who would help shape the future of the profession.
Visit www.martinezfuneralchapels.com for a full obituary.
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ASQ Service Quality Conference
Sept. 22–23, 2014 | San Francisco
Visit http://asq.org/conferences/service-quality/.
National Quality Education Conference
November 16–17, 2014 | Milwaukee
Visit http://asq.org/nqec/.
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