Quality Control & Reliability Engineering (QCRE)
Members of this division are involved in quality management, quality measurement and assurance, quality control analysis, inspection criteria and reliability/maintainability of products or services.
Call for nominations
Take advantage of this excellent opportunity to serve your society in a significant way. If not you, then perhaps someone you know is qualified to take a leadership position on the QCRE Board. The Division continues to grow, and we are looking for motivated, enthusiastic volunteers to continue the progress.
Submit your name or that of a colleague to the QCRE Nominating Chair for review. Interested candidates should complete the nomination form by Aug. 26, 2010, for consideration by the Nominating Committee for the position of Director.
All nominees must be current, regular members of QCRE. Students are not eligible.
Contact Jose Emmanuel Ramirez-Marquez, QCRE Nominating Committee chair, if you have questions about the position and responsibilities. Please consider giving back to your division.
Greetings from the president
It has been my great pleasure and honor to serve all of you as President of the IIE QCRE Division. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for helping us to achieve our goals to better serve the quality and reliability communities. We have a very motivated and productive team this year. More from the president
William A.J. Golomski Award Presented at 2010 RAMS
Suprasad V. Amari and Hoang Pham were recognized at the 2010 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) for their paper, "Reliability Analysis of Dyamic Fiber Bundle Models," selected as the winner of the 2009 William A.J. Golomski Award. The Golomski Award recognizes the outstanding RAMS paper authored or co-authored by a member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.
Introducing Your New QCRE Division Board Members:
Trevor Craney is the reliability team lead for the Shell Exploration & Production unit in Houston, Texas. His areas of expertise are in the practice of statistics, reliability and industrial engineering in a variety of industrial and commercial applications. He holds three masters degrees in these fields in addition to professional certifications in both quality and reliability engineering from ASQ. Craney has been a senior member of IIE since 2007 and active in QCRE since 2006. He is the editor of the Reliability Review which is published by the ASQ Reliability Division where he has also served as its vice-chair for membership. We welcome his applications orientation and believe that his very practical, hands on approach to reliability applications will be most welcome among our members!
Dr. Om Prakash Yadav is an assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at North Dakota State University in Fargo, N.D. He received his Ph.D. in industrial engineering in 2002 from Wayne State University, and he worked briefly with TRW and Ford prior to joining the Adjunct Faculty at the University of Michigan. In 2004, he began a full-time academic career at North Dakota State. Yadav has been an active member of QCRE Division since 2005 and he has delivered papers in the last five IERC conferences. In 2007, he organized and chaired invited sessions in reliability at the IERC in Nashville, and in 2009 he was a session chair at the IERC. In addition to IIE, he has been active in the Society of Automotive Engineers, ASQ and SME.
Member Survey Results
QCRE conducted a member survey to discover the interests of our Division as a starting point for developing a QCRE Track in the Applied Solutions Conference (ASC). While we sent the survey out to all of our members (over 2,500 of us), we had 62 respondents to the survey. The topics that respondents felt had the most degree of challenge for IE’s were (presented in order of the percent of respondents that graded the item at the top of the scale):
- Developing actionable performance measurement systems that predict gaps in results based on in-process performance monitors for both business and technical indicators of process performance (41 percent).
- Engaging front-line workers in performance improvement activities which encourage their innovative participation in identifying, evaluating, experimenting, and executing performance improvements in their work environment (41 percent).
- Integrating quality and reliability methods into the mainstream process for business management to achieve operations excellence (38 percent).
- Engaging senior management in conversations about improving the quality of services or products in our organization (36 percent).
- Training your people in the use or application of basic quality and reliability tools or methods (36 percent).
We will use this information to solicit tutorials and papers on these subjects for 2011 ASC in Reno, Nev., in these areas. If anyone has an especially good practice in one of these areas and would be interested in sharing, then we would like to hear from you as we plan next year’s program!
Applied Solutions Conference (ASC) Developments
Of the respondents to our survey, 35 people indicated a willingness to submit papers for the ASC. From this group we received 15 abstracts and selected 10 for presentation with three held in reserve as back-up presentations. ASC does not require formal papers so presentations will be submitted in March for final review.
Archived Newsletters
QCRE News | Feb. 2010
QCRE News | Nov. 2008
QCRE News | Oct. 2007
QCRE News | Dec. 2007
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