Quality Digest's new program, the Professional Development Curriculum, is your resource for the tools you need to learn and grow, for the benefit of your organization as well as your own career. All classes are delivered online by recognized experts in their fields.

Our first program, "The Evolving Skill Set of Today's Quality Professional" is presented by Joe DeFeo, an executive coach and CEO of Juran Global. The program will be moderated by Quality Digest editor in chief Dirk Dusharme.

This program will be presented in two parts: the first on Tuesday, June 16th, and the second on Tuesday, July 28th. Both live sessions will begin promptly at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific. They will be available on demand as well.

Special features benefits of this program:
• Continuing Education Units offered through this program: 0.2
• Graded self-assessment tool and personalized career development plan
• Price $269

To register and learn more go to: http://www.360performancecircle.com/node/243?utm_source=MadMimi&utm_med…

Implementing ISO 9001:2015 Using Integrated Management Systems and Enterprisewide Quality Software 

Presenter: Mr. Chad Kymal, CTO – Omnex Inc., USA
Host: Mr. Dirk Dusharme, Editor in Chief – Quality Digest
Date and time: Thursday, June 4, 2015 11:00 am
Pacific Daylight Time (San Francisco, GMT-07:00)
Thursday, June 4, 2015 2:00 pm
Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00)

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The advent of the High Level Structure (HLS) with the new ISO 9001:2015, ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2016 standards will encourage companies to adopt Integrated Management Systems. Not only will it aid in the ease of implementation, but it will result in significant savings. 

Join Chad Kymal and Dirk Dusharme to understand the definition of integration and standardization and the requirements of an Enterprise Integrated Quality Management System Software. 

 

Join Join Quality Digest Editor in Chief, Dirk Dusharme and TÜV SÜD’s vice president of medical health services, Richard DeRisio, for the webinar “Effective Strategies for Complaint Management,” on May 19, 2015, at 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific.

This webinar will cover the areas below where members of quality organizations can support complaint management and to help reduce risk for their organization: 

• Original and updated risk assessments
• Failure investigations and analysis
• Corrective and preventive actions to reduce complaints
• Application of statistical tools to trending
• Redesign of products and processes to improve performance
• Management of complaint-handling operations

About the presenter
Richard DeRisio is vice president of Medical Health Services, Americas for the German notified body, TÜV SÜD. DeRisio has led global quality, regulatory, clinical, and government affairs organizations in major corporations, including Abbott, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Covidien. Prior to that, DeRisio spent 10 years at headquarters of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He is a graduate of Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a master’s degree in food science.                     

 

Free 1-hour webinar: Mitigate Supplier Risk through Cloud-Based Quality Management Portals

Register here: http://www.qualitydigest.com/content/etq-webinar-signup-2

2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern

1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Central

12 p.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain

11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Pacific

Abstract: Regardless of the number of suppliers an organization is managing, having an effective technological infrastructure for supplier management can streamline quality assurance practices, create efficiencies in supplier oversight and ultimately mitigate risk in quality management compliance in the supply chain. This webinar will discuss how enterprise quality management solutions can expedite communication and transparency between an organization and its suppliers, while mitigating risk of data security.

As organizations centralize the management of component manufacturers and harmonize supplier quality procedures across multiple divisions, implementing an automated process for supplier management is the next step in creating cost-effective and efficient supplier quality management. Guest Speakers: Benjamin Mack, Pre-sales Engineer, EtQ Dirk Dusharme, Editor-In-Chief, Quality Digest

FDA Initiatives and Regulatory Trends for Life Sciences
Date: Tuesday, April 21, 2015
Time: 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific
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FDA Initiatives and Regulatory Trends for Life Sciences Keeping up with the latest regulatory requirements and the most recent FDA programs is a time consuming task. Please join Larry Spears, former Deputy Director for Regulatory Affairs at the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Office of Compliance, and Dirk Dusharme from Quality Digest, as they discuss FDA trends for regulatory affairs over the next several years along with upcoming FDA initiatives and what impact that will have on Life Science establishments. During this webinar, you will learn about: Increase in focus on Agency transparency Impact on FDA of global market growth Different strategies for inspections Potential changes in compliance tools.

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ISO 9001:2015 Compliance—How Automation Can Help
March 24th, 11 a.m. Pacific / 2 p.m. Eastern
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Engineers and manufacturers are constantly striving to improve product quality, reduce required inspection times, and maximize productivity—the newly released Laser Line Probe HD is a breakthrough in 3D Laser Scanning Technology and is a critical tool for that effort. The FARO Edge ScanArm HD combines the convenience of an Edge FaroArm with the power of the Laser Line Probe HD to provide a fast, accurate, and portable contact/noncontact 3D measurement solution.

Whether you’re doing inspection to CAD or reverse engineering, join us to learn how the ScanArm HD can revolutionize the way you measure your parts. Join us to learn: - What is laser scanning, and how does it work? - Key performance improvement of the ScanArm HD - Capture rate of 560,000 points/sec - New blue laser for noise reduction - Ability to seamlessly scan across diverse surface materials - Reliable, repeatable and highly accurate measurement data - The ROI—how the ScanArm HD can improve your bottom line

Presenter: Chad Crisostomo
Moderator: Dirk Dusharme

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Next Generation 3D Scanning: Fast, High-Definition, and Affordable
March 10, 2015
2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific 
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Engineers and manufacturers are constantly striving to improve product quality, reduce required inspection times, and maximize productivity—the newly released Laser Line Probe HD is a breakthrough in 3D Laser Scanning Technology and is a critical tool for that effort. The FARO Edge ScanArm HD combines the convenience of an Edge FaroArm with the power of the Laser Line Probe HD to provide a fast, accurate, and portable contact/noncontact 3D measurement solution.

Whether you’re doing inspection to CAD or reverse engineering, join us to learn how the ScanArm HD can revolutionize the way you measure your parts.

Join us to learn:

- What is laser scanning, and how does it work?
- Key performance improvement of the ScanArm HD
  - Capture rate of 560,000 points/sec
  - New blue laser for noise reduction
  - Ability to seamlessly scan across diverse surface materials
  - Reliable, repeatable and highly accurate measurement data
- The ROI—how the ScanArm HD can improve your bottom line

Presenter: Chad Crisostomo
Moderator: Dirk Dusharme 

Click here to register! 

Global product quality is impacted by financial pressures, regulatory requirements and a complex, global supply chain. Join Dirk Dusharme, editor in chief at Quality Digest, and Ron Brown, recently retired CIO, plus the Global R&D and Global Nutrition Group at PepsiCo Inc., as they examine some of the biggest challenges in ensuring global quality across a complex supply chain and what best practices were incorporated at PepsiCo to achieve business value.

During this webinar we will discuss:
• Addressing the food safety challenge—what was learned at PepsiCo
• Understand the failure points across your supply chain
• Aligning your functional and business needs, to business and corporate objectives
• Ensuring effective prioritization in a complex and multifunctional environment
• Planning for change and how to focus on sustainable added value to the business

Speaker Tim Adams is a senior engineer in quantitative reliability and risk for the NASA Kennedy Space Center. Tim’s interests, experience, and education provide a multidisciplinary approach. Please RSVP to receive reminder and allow us to better plan. Join the event via audio conference or the Internet.

There continues to be a gap between what we know, what we do, and what we sustain in healthcare. This gap harms our patients’ safety and quality of life, and it harms our organizational outcomes. To address this gap, professionals in healthcare quality can facilitate their work by integrating tools and strategies from implementation science. This presentation will define implementation science and link it to quality improvement using the example of a statewide hospital fall risk reduction collaborative. Attendance is free.