Plenary Speakers and Participating Included:
| Michele Boulanger | Director, Quality & Customer Satisfaction iDEN Subscriber Group, Motorola |
| Gerry Hahn | Manager, GE CRD Applied Statistics Program |
| William Hill | AlliedSignal Six Sigma Master Black Belt |
| Roger Hoerl | Quality Leader, GE Corp. Audit Staff Six Sigma Master Black Belt |
| J. Stuart Hunter | Professor Emeritus, Princeton University |
| William Meeker | Professor, Iowa State University |
| Blan Godfrey | Chairman, Juran Institute |
| Josef Schmee | Professor, Union College |
| Ron Snee | Management Consultant |
Parallel Sessions:
Half day workshops preceding the conference: (Note these were concurrentsessions) Poster sessions Panel session featuring invited speakers and course leaders (Friday morning)
Tours of GE Six Sigma facilities (Friday afternoon)
The 16th Annual ASA Quality and Productivity ResearchConference was held May 19-21 at GE's renowned Research and DevelopmentCenter in Schenectady, New York. GE Corporate Research & Development'sApplied Statistics Program and RPI's Department of Decision Sciences &Engineering Systems organized the conference, which showcased "Six SigmaQuality: Accomplishments, Opportunities, and Challenges," and hosted over300 participants from 10 countries - the largest and broadest attendanceever! Six Sigma is a quality improvement initiative popularized by Motorolawhich is producing significant bottom-line results for GE, AlliedSignal,and others.
Invited presentations were offered by some of the world'sleading quality practitioners: Blan Godfrey (Juran Institute), Stu Hunter(Princeton U., Prof. Emeritus), William Meeker (Prof., Iowa State University),Ron Snee (Management Consultant), Bill Hill (AlliedSignal Six Sigma Leader),and Michele Boulanger (Motorola Director of iDEN Quality & CustomerSatisfaction). Interspersed were numerous lively and parallel contributedpaper tracks, featuring such speakers as Soren Bisgaard, Tom Boardman,Jim Lucas, John Ramberg, and ranging in topics from "Random Run Order withoutResetting Factors for Efficient Six-Sigma Experiments" to "What I Learnedin first Two Years as an Industrial Statistician."
The conference kicked-off with two parallel workshops,organized by GE's Gerry Hahn, Roger Hoerl, and Necip Doganaksoy on "SixSigma Concepts for Statisticians" (80 attendees), and "Useful StatisticalTools You Did NOT Learn in Six Sigma Training" (140 attendees). At theclose of the first day, Jeff Hooper (Lucent Technologies) led a "roast"in honor of Stu Hunter for his colossal contributions to the field andthe Q&P section, which was highlighted by Stu's characteristic wit.The conference closed with an open question panel discussion (Snee, Hunter,Godfrey, Hill, Boulanger, and Meeker), followed by maximum capacity toursof GE's Selkirk Plastics facility and the GE Research and Development Center.
Conference proceedings are downloadable from the conferencewebsite Papers.The proceedings include a paper by George Box and Alberto Luceno receivedby all conference attendees. The eminent Dr. Box was originally scheduledto present and had wanted to attend the conference, however he was unableto do so. Thanks goes to the conference chairs, GE Corporate Research &Development's Tim Keyes and Angie Neff, and all conference participantsfor making the 1999 QPRC a roaring success. The Year 2000 QPRC - StatisticalApplications for the New Millennium - will be jointly sponsored by theASA Q&P, by IMS, and by SPES. It will be hosted by Boeing and the Universityof Washington. and will take place June 26 - 28, 2000 in Seattle, Washington.More information on will be available at http://web.utk.edu/~asaqpand http://www.imstat.org/meetings.
- 1999 QPRC Committee
The GE Researchand Development Center, located in New York's historic Capital District,is a 15 minute drive from AlbanyInternational Airport. It is 150 miles from New York City (easily accessibleby train), 180 milesfrom Boston, 200 miles from Montreal, and 150 miles from Syracuse, NewYork. In the heart of scenic UpstateNew York, the conference site is also approximately 50 miles from theBerkshire and Catskill mountains and from LakeGeorge (at the foothills of the Adirondacks). New York's State CapitolComplex and Museum, and historic SaratogaSpringsand its famed racewayare nearby. There are manythings to do in the area.Of course, Cooperstownis home to the Baseball Hall of Fame as well as otherattractions. Beautiful LakePlacidhas hosted the Winter Olympics. Local colleges include co-sponsorRensselaerPolytechnic Institute (Troy), the StateUniversity of New York at Albany, and UnionCollege (Schenectady).
For driving information, you can download directions andarea maps below. After doing that, you may also want to go to the NewYork State Thruway website for extra information. (On their map, clickon "Albany" where I-87 and I-90 intersect for specific details.)
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Program Chairs:
Necip Doganaksoy, GE Corporate Research and Development
Gerry Hahn, GE Corporate Research and Development
Roger Hoerl, GE Corporate Audit Staff
Tom Willemain, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Other Conference Organizing Committee Members:
Pat Sullo of the Rensselear Polytechnic Institute; JanetBennett, Martha Gardner, Phyllis Liu, Victor Morin, Peter Morse, BrucePomeroy, Grace Shriver, and Christopher Stanard of GE CRD
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