The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
By Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce A rare thing happened during the last week of February 2025. I was virtually conducting a supplier audit, with yours truly as the Lead Auditor while a colleague of mine was onsite at the supplier in the UK. The audit lasted approximately 2.5 days and covered all the elements of ISO9001, as well as specific requirements put forth by my company to its supply chain. And in the end, we raised NO findings. Anyone who conducts audits in the Quality field will know that an… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur - The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Although this picture is from last year’s Super Bowl, it lends itself better to the results of this year’s contest. My yearly “Quality Image Meme” 🙂 ********************************************** Any feedback? Click on the link and let me know. ALSO . . . Please contact me or any one else on the Leadership team if you would like to: 1) Write and submit an article to be published in the Newsletter. 2) Write a review of one of the upcoming monthly webinars for the “Had… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce During the summer of 2024, a colleague of mine at work (Siemens Energy Canada) told me that they were organizing a workshop for the company’s Internal Quality group. Knowing that I am with the ASQ Montreal Section, they asked if it might be possible for someone within ASQ to come and give a Quality-related presentation during the workshop. After a few discussions, both internally within our Section Leadership Team, as well as with the workshop organizers, our Section Education Chair Dr. David Tozer was present… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce As usual, November brings to an end our Section’s event activities, as well as Newsletter activities until January of the following year. So I would like to take this opportunity, as I have in previous November issues of this Newsletter, to wish everyone a joyous holiday season. However you celebrate, I hope it is filled with peace and love. See you in 2025. ********************************************** Any feedback? Click on the link and let me know. ALSO . . . Please contact me or any one else… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce On October 2, 2024, I did something for the first time this decade: I visited a supplier to conduct an audit. In pre-COVID times this was a normal occurence, however since March 2020 any supplier audit I conducted for my employer had to be conducted virtually. Even by 2022 when the world started fully “opening up” again, my immune-compromised being still continued to do these activities remotely; thanks to my understanding managers for agreeing to this. So what made this audit different that made me… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Let me take this opportunity to say that I hope everyone had a wonderful summer, and welcome to the fall 2024 season of ASQ newsletters and events. Was my summer wonderful? Well, I would have definitely preferred not having a recurrence of my lower back issues that had dogged me in the past, but it is what it is. I have spoken before here about “Quality of Life”: about how we should go beyond our paying jobs in the name of Quality, and expect/demand Quality… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce As is customary for me in the June newsletter, I would like to thank you, the reader, for taking the time to read this newsletter. I do hope that the effort that goes into putting it together by myself and others shows, and that you get something positive out of it every time you read it. I wish you a safe, happy and QUALITY summer season. We will be back in September 2024 with the next newsletter. All the best to you. ********************************************** Any feedback?… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce The last time we had an in-person “Night Of The Registrars” event, it was pre-pandemic. So it’s been a while. I sincerely hope to you see you at this event on Wednesday, May 29th at the Novotel Montreal Airport hotel. If you have not already signed up, do not hesitate . . . CLICK HERE. And not long after, on June 12th, we will be having our final event before the summer break, once again at the Novotel hotel. This will be a networking event… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce If you are reading this, then the solar eclipse of April 8, 2024 is now in the history books. If you took the opportunity to witness it live, good for you. And even if you did not, given social media, there are a million and three options to witness it after the fact. One thing I actually learned because of the solar eclipse is that . . . low and behold, there’s a ISO standard for that! The ISO 12312-2:2015 standard, entitled “Eye and face… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Customers. Clients. Entities that give you money to provide them with goods and/or services, often to drawing and/or specification requirements. Where would we be without them? I know where I WILL be once I am without them . . . retired and hopefully on a beach. But until then, I (and most of you too) go to work everyday and do our Quality best to deliver to our paycheck providers the best we can. But as the image meme below correctly states, who/how your customer… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce As Quality professionals, as in everyday life, we sometimes find ourselves in situations where taking a shortcut feels like a good option, as opposed to the longer and perhaps more correct option. I cannot know the number of certificates of conformity I have signed in my career to date, there have been too many. But I always did my best to assure that the work that went into manufacturing the product was done correctly before putting my signature to paper. I can clearly remember a… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Happy 2024 to everyone reading this post. All the best to you in this new year. Like most people, I took some time off before returning to work in the new year. And during that time off, I committed a grievous quality infraction in my personal life . . . I participated in causing a quality escape! If you are unfamiliar with what this means (please don’t be), then by all means Google it before reading on. During my time off, I had booked an… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce In my corner last month, I spoke about “Year-end” . . . in financial terms. This month, it’s a different year-end. As usual, November brings to an end our Section’s event activities, as well as Newsletter activities until January of the following year. So I would like to take this opportunity, as I have in previous November issues of this Newsletter, to wish everyone a joyous holiday season. However you celebrate, I hope it is filled with peace and love. See you in 2024. **********************************************… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce “Year-end” is a term we are all surely familiar with. Financially speaking, it refers to the end of the 12-month performance cycle of a company. For some businesses, year-end lines up with the calendar year, so starting January and ending in December; other businesses try to avoid having the end coincide with the holiday season, so it ends up being a different, continuous 12-month cycle. As a Quality professional for the past 25+ years, one thing I have commonly heard in the weeks leading up… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Hello, and welcome back to your favourite (I hope) Quality newsletter. I sincerely hope everyone had a good summer, which continues until September 23, 2023 🙂 I have often talked about “Quality of Life” here in my corner, about how important it is to have a good work-life balance. Like all normal first-world country people though, my balance sometimes falters. The one constant imbalance in my life for the past 10 years was that I had not made the effort to take a proper vacation.… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce As is customary for me in the June newsletter, I would like to thank you, the reader, for taking the time to read this newsletter. I do hope that the effort that goes into putting it together by myself and others shows, and that you get something positive out of it every time you read it. I wish you a safe, happy and QUALITY summer season. We will be back in September 2023 with the next newsletter. All the best to you. EDITOR’S NOTE: Neither… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce The announcement earlier this month from the World Health Organization that COVID-19 no longer needs to be deemed a global health crisis was of little reassurance to me. As someone who is immune compromised and in daily contact with my Mom who is elderly, my mask wearing continues, and if I stick out like a sore thumb, then so be it. When I go into the office to work, I have consistently been the only one wearing a mask for about the last 3 months.… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Back in March 2021, I wrote in this very section about the ice storm that had hit Texas. I concluded in the end that it was not really my place to point the finger at the state’s lack of preparedness, given eastern Canada’s lack of preparedness during the 1998 ice storm that affected us 25 years ago (happy silver anniversary!). In present day Quebec (and Montreal specifically), we experienced an unexpected sense of deja-vu when, low-and-behold, another ice storm hit the area on April 5th.… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
