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 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
- The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeurBy Michael Bournazian, Eng., Newsletter Editor, ASQ Senior Member, Quality Management Professional, CSSGB with Rolls-Royce Expiry dates. Best before dates. They are in our everyday lives all the time, and as anyone who has done audits during their Quality career knows, they can come up regularly during these activities as well: calibration dates on measuring equipment, expiry dates on chemical products, even certain documents (ex. quality plans, workmanship criteria) may be valid for only a certain period of time or for a certain quantity of product. But if you have read these posts of mine long enough, you know that… 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 When we talk about QUALITY in our domain, it more often than not involves the quality of the parts we manufacture or the services we provide. Fair enough, but many other things require similar focus and energy, one of those things being QUALITY OF LIFE. A friend of mine (both on and off Facebook) recently posted the following statement, in advance of the bone-chillingly cold days we had in Quebec at the start of February 2023: “I typically don’t mind winter, but we’re getting to the portion… Read more: 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 Late last year, I helped organize and participated in a 2-day Supplier Quality workshop in my company. One of the things that I did at the start of each day’s sessions was to present a safety moment. On Day 1, I presented a one-pager on safe driving habits during the winter season, timely as we were about to enter the snowy season. On Day 2, I focused on safe practices when dealing with hazardous materials in the workplace. More and more when I attend workshops, all-hands presentations,… 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 As is customary for the final Newsletter issue of a calendar year, I would like to wish all our readers and ASQ Montreal Section members the safest and happiest of holiday seasons. As well, thank you to everyone who takes the time to read the monthly Newsletter (monthly here means January to June and September to November). It continues to be a pleasure being the one who puts this together for our membership. Here’s looking towards a better and safer 2023. EDITOR’S NOTE: Neither the “C” word… 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 In case you did not notice, our October 2022 event (happening on October 26th, to be precise) will be an in-person event for the first time since February 2020. Going back to that “eventful” time, that in-person event featured speaker Vincent Béchard giving a presentation on “How Simulation Can Enhance Scheduling by Avoiding Lean Waste”. The following month was supposed to feature an in-person “Women in Quality” panel event on March 25th. As we all know, that evening had to be cancelled. That said, from April 2020… 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 Hello! I hope you are having a wonderful summer (that’s right, having, summer is not over yet ;-)). The past 2.5 years has brought about many changes in our lives, both personal and professional. On a professional level, I am grateful that my work has not been negatively affected: the only change is that I mainly do it from home. At first a full 5 days a week, and now for 3 days from home and 2 in the office. With regards to the actual tasks that… 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 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 2022 with the next newsletter. All the best to you. EDITOR’S NOTE: Neither the “C”… 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 How things change. If you had asked me in April 2020 if it would be possible to have an evening of Pecha Kucha presentations done virtually, I would have said “Nah, it won’t work, and it certainly would not be the same as having it in person. In fact, I did say that at some point in 2020, when as a Section Leadership Team, we discussed what events would work in the new virtual reality (pun intended . . . I think). Well, fast forward two years,… Read more: The Editor’s Corner | Mot de l’éditeur
