American Society for Quality

Austin Texas
ASQ Section 1414
Since 1976

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*Vision Statement*

TO BE THE AUSTIN AREA’S LEADER, ADVOCATE, AND VISIONARY SOURCE OF QUALITY AND PROGRESS TOWARDS EXCELLENCE

*Mission Statement*

• To sustain and contribute our resources to the membership and community by promoting and providing professional learning, mentoring, networking and supporting quality efforts.
• To seek supporters and achievers of quality endeavors and recognize their accomplishments.
• To demonstrate our beliefs, we practice what we preach through internal quality initiatives aimed at continual improvement.

*Home Page Content*

05/07/08

The year end awards dinner meeting was held at the County Line (On the Hill) located on Bee Cave Road just past 360.

 

http://www.countyline.com/

Dinner Meeting - May 2008

 

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*Texas Quality Cruise 2008*

(Leave from Galveston, Texas)

10/26/08 - 11/02/08

Here is an opportunity for you to network and attend various quality related sessions while on a cruise!  This event is being sponsored by several ASQ Sections thoughout Texas including Austin Section 1414. 

NOTE

June 25th registration deadline for held cabins and price guarantee.

For more details concerning this event please go to the links listed below:

Texas Quality Cruise 2008

Registration Link

www.asqfortworth.org

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*AGILE Austin July Meeting*

7/01/08

Event:	Agile Austin July Meeting
Date:	July 1, 2008
Time:	6:00 - 8:30 PM
Location:	Microsoft Technology Center; Stonebridge Plaza One; 9606 North Mopac, Suite 200, Austin TX, 78759
Speaker:	Jeremy Miller - Chief Software Architect; Dovetail Software
Title:	How does Design get done on an Agile Project?
Description:	Agile projects have a reputation in many circles as cowboy coding or purely "code n'fix." While there might not be an explicitly defined "Architecture" or "Design" phase or activity, design is still an integral part of any successful Agile project. This talk will discuss the questions of when, how, and by whom is design accomplished. Jeremy will present the Agile and Lean design philosophies for simple design, delayed commitment, and enabling change. Specifically, he will talk about enabling Continuous Design, why evolutionary design adds value over strictly upfront design, and how to get it done without incurring unnecessary code and design thrash in later stages of the project. This talk will be useful to all roles on agile project and product efforts, including project and program managers as well because it touches on flexible and incremental delivery
Speaker Bio:	Jeremy is the Chief Software Architect for Dovetail Software in Austin , TX . Jeremy began his IT career writing "Shadow IT" applications to automate his engineering documentation, then wandered into software development because it looked like more fun. Jeremy learned agile development practices as a .Net consultant at ThoughtWorks, one of the pioneers of agile development. Jeremy is the author of the open source StructureMap (http://structuremap.sourceforge.net) tool for Dependency Injection with .Net and writes the Patterns in Practice column for MSDN Magazine. Jeremy's thoughts on just about everything software related can be found on his weblog "The Shade Tree Developer" at http://codebetter.com/blogs/jeremy.miller, part of the popular CodeBetter site. Jeremy is a Microsoft MVP for C#.
Additional Information
Cost:	Free
Map & Directions:	From South of Hwy 183: Travel North on Mopac ( Loop 1) exiting at Capitol of Texas Hwy. Make a U-turn before the traffic light. Go one block on the access road. Stonebridge Plaza One is to the right, with an entrance between the two towers. Building One is on the right as you enter. (map)
More Info:	www.agileaustin.org or info@AgileAustin.org
Agenda:	Sign-in and Networking 6:00 - 6:30 PM Announcements, Presentation 6:30 - 8:00 PM Q&A and Networking 8:00 - 8:30 PM
Proof of Attendance forms will be provided for PMI (PDU), ASQ (RU) and NPDM (PDH) re-certifications

 

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• Process-related productivity improvement activities
• Yield modeling and yield improvement methodologies
• Real-time data collection and management
• Activities to achieve fast cycle time Real-time factory/equipment data management
• Defect Inspection Next-generation wafer strategy
• Future factory design Design for ESH (environment, safety and health)
• Facility systems reliability improvements
• Design and analysis of semiconductor experiments
• Productivity improvements related to advanced process control, run to run nd fault detection and classification
• Lean Manufacturing Equipment-related productivity improvement activities
• Factory and integrated metrology
• Factory productivity optimization using simulation
• Factory scheduling, dispatching optimization e-Manufacturing implementations
• Design for manufacturing Factory automation-related productivity improvements
• Manufacturing sustainability and resource conservation
• Topics in ESH management
• Statistical techniques for process improvement and control
• Novel approaches to the analysis and visualization of manufacturing data
• Non-product wafer reduction techniques

The conference website, containing much more information, can be found at:

http://ismi.sematech.org/ismisymposium .

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Date	Speaker	Topic
September 11	TBD
October 9	TBD
November 13	TBD
December 11	N/A	Holiday Dinner Meeting
January 8	TBD
February 12	TBD
March 12	TBD
April 9	TBD
May 14	N/A	Year End Awards Dinner

Our sincere thanks to Applied Materials

for providing ASQ Austin with meeting facilities!

Frank Leonardi (Chairman ASQ Austin) presenting plaque to Rick Gesing (left) Vice President Global Operations Manufacturing Organization (GOMO), and Ronnie Robinson (right) Senior Director Global Operations Quality and Reliability (GOQR)

 

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