Statistics and Six Sigma - What Works, What Doesn't
Tuesday, May 18, 2004 | |||||||
9:30-4:40 | Pre-conference Short Course - "Teaching Design of Experiments Using Statistical Software" Mark Johnson, University of Central Florida Chris Nachtsheim, University of Minnesota | ||||||
Wednesday, May 19, 2004 | |||||||
8:30-8:45 | Welcome Steve Jones - Vice Chancellor for Research & Extension, NC State University John Sall - Executive Vice Presindent and Co-Founder, SAS Institute Inc. Angie Patterson - Chair, ASA Section on Quality and Productivity | ||||||
8:45-10:30 | Opening Plenary Opening addresses by participants of the first Quality and Productivity Conference twenty years ago will open the conference with short talks on where statistics and quality have been in the past twenty years and their personal visions of where quality, productivity and statistics will be in the next twenty years.
Michele Boulanger, Motorola Jeff Hooper, International Network Services Ramon Leon, University of Tennessee Blan Godfrey, NC State University
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10:30-11:00 | Morning Break | ||||||
11:00-12:30 | Two special concurrent invited sessions.
"Bioinformatics Work in the SAMSI Data Mining Year"
"Pooling Experiments for Hight Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery"
"Deep Clustering via rSVD"
"Model Robust Design"
"Bayesian D-Optimal Supersaturated Design"
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12:30-1:30 | Lunch | ||||||
1:30-3:00 | Two special concurrent invited sessions.
"Six Sigma Case Studies"
"Using Six Sigma for New Product Development"
"Issues in Mining `Real' Data"
"Instrumenting Software to Predict Failure" | ||||||
3:00-3:20 | Break | ||||||
3:20-4:00 | Special Keynote Presentation - "From Box and Wilson (1951) to Q&P (1984) to Six Sigma and Beyond: A Retrospective"
Ray Myers, Virginia Tech | ||||||
4:00-5:30 | Panel - "Software and Statistics"
Barbara Ryan - President & CEO, Minitab Inc. Leland Wilkinson - Senior Vice President, SPSS Inc. | ||||||
5:30-6:30 | Reception | ||||||
6:30 | Dinner and Socializing | ||||||
Thursday, May 20, 2004 | |||||||
8:30-10:00 | Keynote Session Talk by Stu Hunter, Princton University. - 25th Anniversary of Box, Hunter and Hunter and introduction to the second edition. | ||||||
10:00-10:30 | Morning Break | ||||||
10:30-12:15 | Special Plenary Session - "Six Sigma, What Works, What Doesn't"
Organizer/Chair: Chris Nachtsheim
Kevin Linderman, University of Minnesota Peter Kolesar, Columbia University | ||||||
12:15-1:15 | Lunch | ||||||
1:15-2:45 | Special presentations by winners of Mary Natrella Fellowships
Contributed Papers and Poster Sessions | ||||||
2:45-3:00 | Afternoon Break | ||||||
3:00-3:30 | Transportation to SAS Headquarters in Cary | ||||||
3:30-5:30 | Tour and Demonstrations of Software Devleopment and Research Facilities SAS Hosted Reception during demonstrations | ||||||
Friday, May 21, 2004 | |||||||
8:30-10:30 | Two special concurrent invited sessions.
"Statistics, Six Sigma and Healthcare"
"Implementing Six Sigma in a Large, Complex Organization"
"Beyond the Six Sigma classroom"
"Six Sigma: New Directions for DOE"
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10:30-11:00 | Morning Break | ||||||
11:00-12:30 | Closing Plenary- "Does Six Sigma Have a Future? A Debate"
Gerry Hahn and Roger Hoerl, General Electric 12:30-1:30
| Box Lunches
| 1:30-3:30
| Post meeting of QPRC Steering Committee and Planing Committee
| wrap-up, lessons learned, and planning for next year's conference.
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