Vol. 21, No. 2 The Newsletter of the Measurement Quality ...

Vol. 21, No. 2 The Newsletter of the Measurement Quality Division, American Society for Quality June 2007

The Standard is published quarterly by the Measurement Quality Division of ASQ; deadlines are February 15, May 15, August 15 and November 15. Text infor-mation intended for publication can be sent via electronic mail as an attachment in MS Word format (Times New Roman, 11 pt). Use single spacing between sen-tences. Graphics/illustrations must be sent as a separate attachment, in jpg format. Photographs of MQD activities are always welcome. Publication of articles, prod-uct releases, advertisements or technical information does not imply endorsement by MQD or ASQ. While The Standard makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of articles, the publication disclaims responsibility for statements of fact or opinion made by the authors or other contributors. Material from The Standard may not be reproduced without permission of ASQ. Copyrights in the United States and all other countries are reserved. Website information: MQD’s homepage can be found at http://www.asq.org/measure. © 2007 ASQ, MQD. All rights reserved.

The Standard Vol 21, No. 2, June 2007

Managing Editor and Publisher Jay L. Bucher 6700 Royal View Dr. De Forest, WI 53532-2775 Voice: 608-277-2522 Fax: 608-846-4269 Email: [email protected] or [email protected]

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Letters to the Editor The Standard welcomes letters from mem-bers and subscribers. Letters should clearly state whether the author is expressing opin-ion or presenting facts with supporting infor-mation. Commendation, encouragement, constructive critique, suggestions, and alter-native approaches are accepted. If the con-tent is more than 200 words, we may delete portions to hold that limit. We reserve the right to edit letters and papers. Information for Authors The Standard publishes papers on the qual-ity of measurements and the measurement of quality at all levels ranging from relatively simple tutorial material to state-of-the-art. Papers published in The Standard are not referred in the usual sense, except to ascer-tain that facts are correctly stated and to as-sure that opinion and fact are clearly distin-guished one from another. The Editor re-serves the right to edit any paper.

TABLE OF CONTENTS Chair’s Column...............................................................................3 Chair-Elect’s Column .....................................................................4 Financial Report..............................................................................4 Job Descriptions & Education / Training Linkage .........................5 Working Group on Standard Occupation Classifications...............7 A2LA News Releases ............................................................. 10-11 The Learning Curve ......................................................................13 2007-2008 Simmons Scholarship Winner ....................................16 NCSL International Workshop & Symposium 2007 info.............17 MQD Officers and Committee Chairs ..........................................18 MQD Regional Councilors ...........................................................19 ASQ World Conference on Quality and Improvement Report.....21

FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR/PUBLISHER

By the time this edition hits the news-stands, there will only be a few weeks left in this fiscal year. On behalf of the officers and regional councilors, I’d like to thank our outgoing Chair, Graeme Payne. He has been at the helm of this ship called MQD for the past two years. He was gracious enough to step up to the plate when times were rough, and we thank him for all his hard work, support, and dedication. That doesn’t mean he gets to slip into our memories, though. He becomes our immediate past chair, and Dilip Shah has one less chair to fill. Our new officers starting July 1st, 2007 will be:

Chair: Richard (Rick) Roberson Chair-elect: Craig (Woody) Niemann, SMSgt, USAF Secretary: Christopher Grachanen Treasurer: Jay Bucher

Thanks to all who have made 2006-2007 a great year, and we look forward to 2007-2008. ON THE FRONT COVER: The new MQD Challenge Coin—Front and Back; Graeme Payne, the MQD Chair (2005 ~ 2007), manning our booth at WCQI 2007

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CHAIR’S COLUMN By Graeme C. Payne

Well, it is near the end of my second year as Chairperson of the Measurement Quality Division. At the beginning of July I will turn the gavel over to Rick Roberson and then take a break. (Not a long break, because I have to be at work the next day!) I want to express my sincere appreciation to all of the member volunteers - elected officers, committee chairs and members, and those in appointed positions – for everything you have done to support and promote the Division during the 2006-2007 year.

CHAIR-ELECT’S COLUMN By Rick Roberson

This article is for the contract PMEL workers out there. Everyone else may want to read through in case they ever step into our world-if they can handle it. Let’s talk about money. Most of us go to work for the paycheck. There are other reasons to choose this job, but money is probably high on everyone’s list. The problem: the Department of Labor (DOL) Wage Determinations (WD).

FINANCIAL REPORT

By Jay Bucher The following are the current totals from the MQD accounts as of March 31, 2007:

Checking account: $49,788.14

Money market account: $76,752.32 During the period of July 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006, the division received royalties from the sale of The Metrology Handbook of $1,309.91. For the life of the edition, 2,419 books have been sold. Respectfully, Jay L. Bucher MQD Treasurer

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Job Descriptions and Education / Training Linkage By Christopher L. Grachanen

Recent ASQ MQD and NCSLI Metrology job description initiatives / ac-tivities have been pursued under the banner of Metrology education. One might ask, “What is the linkage between Metrology education and Metrol-ogy job descriptions?” This question may be best answered in terms of obtaining and using job related demographics to make informed decisions.

Working Group on Standard Occupation

Classifications - Project Update By Christopher L. Grachanen

One of NCSLI’s 163.1 Working Group on Standard Occupation Classifi-cations major projects is; Prepare/submit a proposal to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) - A number of Metrologists have suggested that the standard titles and descriptions used by the U.S. Department of Labor are not used by OPM. This proposal would take the materials submitted to the Depart-ment of Labor and repackage them for OPM to update Federal job classi-fications.

To this ends the 163.1 working group (members comprised of NCSLI and ASQ Measurement Quality Division (MQD) volunteers) drafted and sent the following to the OPM (12Apr07).

THE LEARNING CURVE By Phil Painchaud

This is the fiftieth iteration in a contiguous series of polemicizations (fancy word for argumentative discourse) charted to be on the general subject of Metrology Educa-tion. We are now well into our fifteenth year of writing these in the form of open let-ters to our esteemed Boss, the Managing Editor of this periodic journal.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: A2LA Recognized by NIST for Accreditation of Telecommunications Certification Bodies (TCBs) under the APEC TEL MRA 2007-05-14 – Frederick, Maryland - The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) is now recognized by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for accreditation of TCBs for FCC requirements. This recognition expands the A2LA goal of one accreditation accepted everywhere. A2LA ISO/IEC 17025 accredited testing laboratories that are also ISO/IEC Guide 65 accredited Product Certification Bodies now have the choice of having both accreditations accomplished with one assessment from one accreditation body. Organizations exercising this option can reduce cost and time expended during the on-site accreditation process.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: ISO 15189 Medical Laboratory Accreditation Now Offered By A2LA FREDERICK, MD. (May 28, 2007) - The American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA) is proud to announce it is adding medical laboratories to its accreditation offerings. A2LA is accepting applications for accreditation to ISO 15189 beginning June 1, 2007. “We are excited to begin offering accreditation services to medical laboratories,” said Peter Unger, A2LA president. “We see strong demand for an internationally recognized accreditation program in the medical laboratory industry. We offer a distinct approach to laboratory accreditation that, to date, has not been established for the medical laboratory community in the US.”

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2007–2008 SIMMONS SCHOLARSHIP WINNER

By Norman B. Belecki

The Joe D. Simmons Memorial Scholarship for the academic year 2007–2008 has been awarded to Timothy F. Chereck, a student at the Central Georgia Technical College. Mr. Chereck is studying for an Associate’s degree in metrology as a part of a career-field change from that of an industrial-electronics technician. As such he repaired and/or adjusted misperforming produc-tion equipment that, while still functioning, was affecting the quality of manufactured products. In this he was responsible for both hardware and software maintenance. This is a natural move for Chereck as he was an end-user of the tools of metrology. He has a perfect academic record as a metrology student. The Simmons Scholarship is pleased to recognize his ability and hard work by presenting its 2007–2008 award to Timothy Chereck of Central Georgia Tech. The Scholarship is in memory of Dr. Joe D. Simmons, who was Chief of the NIST Calibration Program, NIST liaison to the National Conference of Standards Laboratories, recipient of the Measurement Sci-ence Conference’s Andrew J. Woodington Award and the National Conference of Standards Laborato-ries’ Wildhack Award, cofounder and Chair of the Measurement Quality Division of the American Soci-ety for Quality Control (ASQ), and founding Chair of the Measurement Quality Conference. He devoted his later career to promoting institutional support for metrology as the cornerstone of quality. The Schol-arship fosters the furtherance of metrology through education by striving to:

a) support the academic pursuit of a metrology career by worthy students; b) promote and improve measurement science education and educational opportunity; c) encourage talented individuals to enter the field of metrology; and d) stimulate professionalism in metrology,

through an annual award to a student exhibiting scholastic excellence in the study of measurement sci-ence and quality. The Scholarship is cosponsored by the ASQ Measurement Quality Division, the Meas-urement Science Conference and NCSL International, and is supported by many individual friends and colleagues of Joe Simmons.

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Chair Graeme C. Payne GK Systems, Inc. 4440 Weston Drive SW, Suite B Lilburn, GA 30047 USA Voice: (770) 931-4004 / Fax (866) 887-9344 E-mail: [email protected]

Chair-Elect

Richard D. Roberson 10301 Clinkenbeard Rd NE Norman, OK 73026 Voice (405) 321-8580 E-mail: [email protected]

Secretary, Certification Chair, Website Manager, NCSL International Representative

Christopher L. Grachanen Manager, Houston Metrology Group Hewlett-Packard P. O. Box 692000 MS070110 Houston, TX 77269-2000 Voice (281) 518-8486 / Fax (281) 518-7275 E-mail: [email protected]

Treasurer, Publication Chair, Newsletter Editor/Publisher, Share Point Administrator

Jay L. Bucher Bucherview Metrology Services 6700 Royal View Dr. De Forest, WI 53532-2775 Voice (608) 277-2522 / Fax (608) 846-4269 E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Immediate Past Chair, Nominating Chair Program Chair

Dilip A. Shah E = mc3 Solutions 197 Great Oaks Trail #130 Wadsworth, Ohio 44281-8215 Voice (330) 328-4400 / Fax (330) 336-3974 E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Joe Simmons Scholarship Norm Belecki 7413 Mill Run Dr Derwood, MD 20855-1156 Voice (301) 869-4520 E-mail: [email protected]

Standards Committee Representative

Robert M. Graham Primary AC Standards Lab Sandia National Laboratories P.O. Box 5800, M.S. 0665 Albuquerque, NM 87185-0665 Phone: (505) 845-0434 Fax: (505) 844-6096 E-mail: [email protected]

Examining Chair

Duane Allen U. S. Navy P.O. Box 5000, Code MS11 Corona, CA 92878-5000 Voice (909) 273-4783 / Fax (909) 273-4599 E-mail: [email protected]

Historian

Keela Sniadach Promega Corp. 5445 East Cheryl Parkway Madison, WI 53711 Voice (608) 298-4681 / Fax (608) 277-2516 E-mail: [email protected]

ASQ Division Administrator

Ms. Jennifer Admussen, CQIA Voice (800) 248-1946, x7736 E-mail: [email protected]

MEASUREMENT QUALITY DIVISION OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS

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ASQ MEASUREMENT QUALITY DIVISION REGIONAL COUNCILORS

Regional Councilors represent the Division to members and Sections in their geographic areas. Regional Councilors are appointed for renewable two-year terms, and are advisory members of the Division leadership team. Region 1 (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)

Mr. Jun Bautista Genzyme Cambridge, MA 02142 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 2 (NJ, NY, PA) Volunteer Opportunity!

Region 3 (CT, NJ, NY)

Mr. Eduardo M. Heidelberg Pfizer Parlin, NJ 08859 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 4 (Canada)

Mr. Alexander T. C. Lau ExxonMobil Whitby, ON L1R 1R1 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 5 (DC, DE, MD, PA, VA)

Mr. Richard A. Litts Litts Quality Technologies Downington, PA 19335 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 6 (AK, CA, HI, ID, MT, OR, UT, WA, WY)

Volunteer Opportunity!

Region 7 (AZ, CA, NV, part of Mexico)

Mr. Randy D. Farmer Metrology Solutions Chula Vista, CA 91913 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 8 (OH, PA)

Dilip A. Shah E = mc3 Solutions Wadsworth, Ohio 44281-8215E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Region 9 (IN, KY, OH)

Mr. Ryan Fischer, ASQ CCT Laboratory Accreditation Bureau New Haven, IN 46774 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 10 (OH, MI) Volunteer Opportunity!

Region 11 (NC, SC, TN, VA) Volunteer Opportunity!

Region 12 (IL, MN, ND, SD, WI)

Dr. Donald S. Ermer ASQ Fellow; Eugene L. Grant Medal (2001) University of Wisconsin—Madison Madison, WI 53706 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 13 (CO, IA, KS, MO, NE, SD, WY)

Volunteer Opportunity! Region 14 (AR, LA, NM, OK, TX, part of Mexico)

Mr. R. Keith Bennett TRANSCAT Kingwood, TX 77339 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 15 (AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, Puerto Rico)

Mr. E. Bryan Miller ASQ Fellow Bryan Miller Consulting Florence, AL 35633 E-mail: [email protected]

Region 25 (all other countries) Volunteer Opportunity!

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