Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label europe. Show all posts

13 December 2016

Modern QFD - ISO 16355 training in EU-Baltic

 QFD Green Belt® Certificate Course         

17th - 18th January, 2017
from 8:30 to 17:00 on both days
Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia
We are pleased to bring this exceptional learning opportunity in partnership with the Estonian Association for Quality (EAQ).

Please join us in this Modern Blitz QFD® and ISO 16355 workshop for innovation, new product development, and business process design.

This 2-day course will be taught in English by Glenn H. Mazur, the world's leading expert in the theory and practice of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and the new ISO 16355.

To attend, reserve your seat in this class, or to inquire, please contact QFD Institute or EAQ office (our local partner) now.


Where

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This course will be held at Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (Eesti Ettevõtleuskõrgkool Mainor; address: Suur-Sõjamäe 10a, Tallinn, Estonia).

This university is about about 3 minutes (1.5 km) by car from Tallinn Airport (airport code: TLL), and about 15 minutes (5.5 km) by car from the Old City Harbour / Vanasadam.

We look forward to welcoming you in this class.

As always, please contact us if you have questions about this course, other training dates, or QFD ISO 16355.




17 May 2016

ISO QFD Training in EU

Here are upcoming opportunities for those who live in EU and surrounding regions.

These events can help you learn how to comply with the new ISO 16355 and modern QFD methods.

Stay ahead of your competitors who may be still using an outdated House of Quality and conventional approaches. Most important, enhance your professional skills, business performance, and career with the best QFD training.

  • 25–27 May 2016
    QFD Green Belt® training
    at Laatukeskus Excellence Finland (Keilaranta 16, 02150)
    Espoo, FINLAND
    Please register by 21st May, to assure your seat and training materials.
     
  • 31 May 2016  (from 10:00 to 15:00)
    Introduction to ISO 16355
    Half-day seminar at the European Organization for Quality Congress
    at Laatukeskus Excellence Finland (Keilaranta 16, 02150)
    Espoo, FINLAND
     
  • 1 June 2016  (@ 13:30)
    ISO 16355: A Quality Approach to New Product Development
    at the European Organization for Quality Congress
    (Track "Quality Tools and Business Improvement" )
    Helsinki, FINLAND

http://www.quality2016.eu/program/pre-congress/




    23 August 2014

    QFD in Europe - Reporting 2014 QFD activities across EU

    2014 has been a big year for QFD in Europe.
    The statue of Poseidon in Gothenburg
    photo: Historiker/Wiki Commons
    1. The spring blossomed with QFD Green Belt® and QFD Black Belt® in-company training sessions in Nuremberg Germany, Prague Czech Republic, and Waterloo Belgium. Several projects are well under way.
    2. The summer heated up with a June QFD workshop during the International Academy for Quality (IAQ) annual meeting in Stenungsbaden Sweden, using QFD tools to capture the voice of the IAQ membership (including our Chair, Sr. Mary Jean Ryan) in order to explore ways to improve the membership experience. The session was followed by an all-you-can-eat seafood buffet and musical dinner cruise!
    3. Next was a special Pre-EOQ Congress session in Gothenburg Sweden attended by 37 participants. This included a 2.5 hour QFD White Belt® training session to introduce the new VOC (Voice of the Customer) and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) tools used in Modern Blitz QFD®.
    4. In the main European Organization for Quality (EOQ) session was a paper on the ISO 16355 standard (new QFD standard).
    5. Vienna
      photo: Eliza0027/Wiki Commons
    6. The ISO Technical Committee (TC) 69 for Statistical Methods held its annual plenary session in Vienna Austria later in June. We were able to finalize the ISO 16355 draft and launch its commentary phase. Work on Parts 2 and 3 have begun.
    7. The autumn is ablaze with new events, starting with the 20th International Symposium on QFD (ISQFD) as well as a
      QFD Green Belt® course to be held in Istanbul Turkey from September 2 - 5, 2014.  This is a great opportunity for readers in EU and ME regions to attend the today's best QFD training and earn an international QFD certificate.
    8. The 2014 Akao Prize® is being awarded to Associate Prof. Jaroslav Machan of the Czech Republic during the ISQFD.

    Keep up the good work, Europe. I will update you on Turkey soon!



    29 June 2012

    Our QFD Community – a home for young professionals and scholars from around the world

    One of the pleasures of the QFD Symposia is the chance to meet young professionals and scholars from around the world. We'd like to share some of their stories as a way to invite readers of this blog to join our community as a presenter, writer, or attendee.

    The opportunity is best explained by this mail we received recently from Dr. Francisco Tamayo-Enríquez, one of our colleagues in Mexico who, after earning his Ph.D.,  was named in the November 2011 issue of the American Society for Quality's Quality Progress magazine as one of the top young professionals making a true quality difference in their organizations.

    ”(the word) ‘Sharing’ in Spanish means not only to inform, but also to express gratitude.  I need to recognize that the beginning of my “international” career was because of the enthusiasm and support that I received from the QFD Institute and QFD community. Therefore, this recognition is also to the QFD community that had supported me during all these years and allowed me to have a lot of satisfactions and professional growth. Thank you very much sensei (teacher), for this invaluable opportunity.

    "I owe a lot of my recognition to my QFDI community, teachers, workmates and students. To be able to stand in front of an international, English-speaking community, to write technical papers, to be able to participate and lead in modern-correct-useful QFD projects and to teach my students." 
    Another QFD colleague from Mexico, Verónica González Bosch, was also recognized in the ASQ magazine's top young professionals list. Verónica received the Akao Prize® in 2006 and runs the Spanish language QFDLAT.com website.

    These messages speak to the community of all QFD professionals to support our next generation of QFD experts. How can we help?

    image of QFD symposium transactions
    Beyond the formality of paper presentations, the Symposium is a forum of idea exchange and mutual learning. It offers an opportunity to see real world applications as they happen, something way beyond what is covered in textbooks. More important, it offers an opportunity to network with and get feedback from experts on QFD implementation, research, which tools to use, and even thesis guidance.

    Over the years, we've met many talented young people from all over the world through the Symposium. For example, one Ph.D. student from Serbia, Dr. Miljan Radunovic, contacted us a couple of years ago. Through a series of emails, we encouraged him to write up his situation. At the 2011 International QFD Symposium in Germany, this young man identified himself, saying that the paper we persuaded him to write not only got him accepted for the Symposium and earn his Ph.D., but also landed him a good job right out of school and a sponsorship to travel to the Symposium.

    Dr. Catherine Chan was another Ph.D. student with a serious dedication. She wanted to help the Hong Kong clothing and textile industry transform their traditional OEM business model into a more competitive global player. Her first QFD paper, using classical QFD tools, was presented at the 2005 International QFD Symposium. Since then, she has taken up every opportunity to learn Modern QFD, first enrolling in the QFD Green Belt® Course and eventually earning her full-status QFD Black Belt® this year. She now heads the Hong Kong QFD Association and teaches at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

    In the 1990s, we got to know Dr. Fatih Yenginol, a young scholar from Turkey, when he first attended the QFD Symposium in Michigan, and later as a student in the advanced QFD courses, and finally as a speaker. He laid the foundation for QFD education at his Dokuz Eylul University, organizing their first Turkish QFD Symposium in 2002 and later posthumously receiving the Akao Prize® in 2005. Although illness cut his life short at a young age, his legacy has been passed down to successive generations of scholars at the university, who hosted the 2005 International Symposium on QFD and additional QFD Green Belt® courses for Turkish industry. Dr. Aysun Kapucugil Ikiz, also of Dokuz Eylul University received an Akao scholarship, as well.

    Other students in our QFD community have become a specialists in their own fields. We met Dr. Anders Gustafsson also at a U.S. QFD Symposium many years ago when he traveled from the Linkoping University in Sweden where he was a Ph.D. Student. He was instrumental in bringing the Third International QFD Symposium there in 1997. Anders is a recipient of the 1999 Akao Prize® for QFD, and he has gone on to become a leading scholar in the field of Conjoint Analysis.

    These are some of the young talents who grew up in our QFD community and have gone on to great careers. If you are or know someone like them, we invite you to come see us at the upcoming QFD Symposium in St. Augustine, Florida on November 2, 2012.

    If you wish to be a speaker, we invite you to send an abstract. To learn the best practice tools and methods of Modern QFD, we recommend attending the QFD Green Belt® Course offered at the symposium.