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Finding Your Niche in ASQ’s
Living Communities
In the May issue of News for a Change,
ASQ’s new Living Community Model was
introduced, which offers a variety of new and
enhanced member types and benefits suited to all
interested in the practice and/or profession of
quality.
As an AQP member, you have complete flexibility to
choose the combination of membership options that you
find most attractive and beneficial. For example, the
Teamwork and Participation Forum will include an
electronic version of News for a Change.
Also included in this membership option is access to
information specific to the Forum from the ASQ and
AQP bodies of knowledge. Additionally, discussion
boards, member search, access to ASQ’s salary
survey, and ASQ general public content is available
to Teamwork and Participation Forum members.
ASQ will also offer other forums and divisions
that may interest you. These are communities of
practice specific to an industry or application led
by professionals in the field. Forums/divisions are
sources of concentrated information that will help
you in your job. They can provide you with
informative tools related to your field of interest
and connect you with others in the field through
collaborative and networking events. Here is a brief
description of each forum and division.
Applications-Oriented Forums and
Divisions
Lean Enterprise Forum:
Members focus on providing information regarding
world-class manufacturing and enterprises. This
forum’s areas of interest include cost and
waste reduction, increased product quality,
continuous improvement, and the use of cutting-edge
concepts to compete in the global marketplace.
Community Quality Councils
Forum: Members include quality
professionals who want to improve the quality of life
in global communities and local regions by promoting
quality principles as researched, developed, and
practiced by ASQ and other community quality councils
(CQCs).
Customer-Supplier
Division: Members are involved in all
aspects of the customer-supplier relationship, from
initial design and development engineering to
manufacturing to the end product.
Human Development and Leadership
Division: Members include anyone
involved in leading personnel or developing human
capability, whether it is at work, in volunteer
organizations, or in their communities. The
division’s mission and vision is to provide
members with the skills, knowledge, tools, and
information needed to excel as quality individuals,
regardless of organizational position or area of
expertise.
Inspection Division:
Members include management and technical personnel
responsible for establishing, developing, and
performing quality control, quality assurance,
auditing, and inspection and test methodology and
practices.
Measurement Quality
Division: Members include quality and
instrument specialists who develop, apply, and
maintain the calibration of measuring equipment and
systems, and quality engineers and educators
concerned with measurement process capability.
Product Safety and Liability
Prevention Forum: Members include
quality, legal, safety, insurance, and consulting
professionals responsible for product safety and
liability in insurance and services.
Quality Audit Division:
Members are individuals responsible for auditing the
quality elements of management systems and
manufacturing and service processes.
Quality Management
Division: Members represent all levels
of management including executives, managers,
supervisors, team and project leaders, and quality
professionals aspiring to those positions. They also
include educators, facilitators, engineers,
consultants, authors, and other quality
professionals.
Reliability Division:
Members include quality and reliability engineers and
educators concerned with reliability and
maintainability in industry and government.
Six Sigma Forum: Members
are quality professionals, from the novice to the
experienced, interested in the practice of Six Sigma.
A global, multifaceted, Web-based membership, its
mission is to help Six Sigma professionals share
knowledge and solutions through in-depth articles,
case studies, networking, discussion boards, and a
monthly e-newsletter.
Industry-Oriented Forums and
Divisions
Automotive Division:
Members include professionals from almost every
discipline represented in the vehicle manufacturing
and supplier business of the North American
automotive industry; heavy truck; off-highway; and
agricultural, industrial, and construction equipment
industries.
Aviation, Space, and Defense
Division: Members are in the
manufacturing, service, and government sectors of the
commercial aviation, defense, and space industries,
as well as the DOD, FAA, and NASA; contractors; and
subcontractors.
Biomedical Division:
Members include medical device manufacturers and
users; hospital and healthcare professionals;
regulatory personnel; instrumentation producers and
users; government agency personnel; and contractors,
consultants, and suppliers to these groups.
Chemical and Process Industries
Division: Members work in industries
such as chemicals, metals, paper and pulp, glass and
ceramics, plastics, rubber, and petroleum.
Recognizing that special issues exist for each
industry, the division encourages the formation of
technical interest groups to serve members in
specific industries.
Design and Construction
Division: Members seek to improve the
quality of service in the architectural/engineering
and construction (A/E&C) community.
Education Division:
Members are educators and administrators from the
public and private sectors, business professionals,
and others who want to explore and promote the use of
quality principles in all aspects and levels of
education; includes those in ASQ’s Koalaty Kid
community.
Electronics and Communications
Division: Members include quality,
reliability, telecommunications, and communications
practitioners; all levels and types of electrical,
electronic products, and major service providers and
their suppliers in telecommunications (TL 9000) and
communications products and services. All grades of
products and services are covered, from commercial to
the highest levels in industry.
Energy and Environmental
Division: Members are quality
professionals in the fields of energy and
environment, including technology and construction,
power production, resource extraction and processing,
environmental operations, decontamination and
decommissioning, waste minimization and pollution
prevention, sampling and analysis, and research and
development.
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic
Division: Members include quality
control and assurance, regulatory and compliance,
scientific, engineering, manufacturing, marketing,
and sales professionals from companies and service
organizations concerned with food, pharmaceuticals,
cosmetics, and related products.
Government Division:
Members include individuals in state, local, and
federal government committed to the application of
total quality management principles and concepts
within the operation of public sector agencies.
Healthcare Division:
Members are providers of healthcare and services,
supporters of those providers, and others interested
in the healthcare field.
Service Quality
Division: Members are typically
involved with the implementation and integration of
quality principles and systems in organizations
having a service as the primary product. Other
members facilitate improvement of service-oriented
processes within manufacturing companies.
Software Division:
Members include software quality professionals,
software engineers, and others interested in applying
quality principles to the field of software
development.
Statistics Division:
Members include quality managers, engineers,
statisticians, and educators who apply, research,
develop, and promote statistical methods for quality
and productivity improvement.
Textile and Needle Trades
Division: Members include fiber and
trim producers and users; fabric mill producers and
converters; apparel and sewn products manufacturers;
footwear and luggage manufacturers; garment
merchandisers and retailers; educators in textile and
apparel technology; and quality control managers,
engineers, and inspectors.
Membership Options Beginning July 1,
2004
Forum-Only Member
A base membership in a forum/division will be
available for $29 per year. Forum/Division membership
is designed for individuals who have an interest in
quality focused within a specific industry or topic
(e.g., the Teamwork and Participation Forum). As with
the Associate member category, benefits are primarily
delivered through electronic means, although some
face-to-face interaction and networking opportunities
may be available. Benefits offered within ASQ’s
forums/divisions include newsletters,
industry/topic-specific content, Web sites,
discussion boards, member search, etc. This base set
of benefits will be expanded. (Members may elect to
receive The Journal for Quality and
Participation for the annual member rate of
$45.)
Associate Member
This base membership will be available for $69 per
year. A purely electronic option, it provides broad
exposure to quality disciplines or topics. Associate
members receive an electronic section membership for
networking with individuals globally.
Forums/divisions, including the Teamwork and
Participation Forum, may be added to the base
membership for an additional $10 each.
Regular Member
The Regular membership category is designed for
quality professionals and practitioners and is
available for $119 per year. It enhances the
tradition of ASQ membership with more flexibility and
value. Regular members seek a breadth and depth of
information; networking, training, and education; and
personal and professional development options
delivered in a variety of formats and frequencies.
This category will feature a geographical section
affiliation as well as one forum/division
affiliation. Additional forums/divisions may be added
for $10 each. Regular members may serve as volunteers
at any level of the Society and will be able to
upgrade their membership to Senior and Fellow
status.
For complete information about ASQ’s
Living Community Model go to http://www.asq.org .
Questions can be directed to membermodel@asq.org
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