ISO Users Group of Western Pennsylvania
Monday September 15, 2003
Dinner Meeting
Speaker: Sherry Poriss of PRI
Location: PRI, Thornhill Industrial Park, Warrendale, PA. For directions to PRI, click here
COST: $22.00 for ISO Users members, $27.00 for non-members
5:30pm Registration and Social Hour
6:30pm Dinner
7:00 Business Meeting
7:15 - 8:00pm Presentation
PROGRAM: Root Cause / Corrective Action is a significant continuous improvement tool providing objective evidence of corrective and preventive action as required by ISO 9001. This talk will focus on improving the corrective action process and is condensed from PRI's popular seminar. We will quickly review a sure-fire method to improve root cause analysis and prevent the same mistakes from occurring over and over again. The process is based on building cause chains to identify all sources of nonconformance once and for all. The introduction to the class will also examine the base requirements and challenge the audience on compliance.
PRESENTER: Sherry Poriss is Program Developer for Performance Review Institute (PRI), a not-for-profit, independent, trade association designed to provide shared conformity assessment services to the mobility industry. PRI is an ISO Registrar and administrator of the National Aerospace & Defense Contractors Accreditation Program (NADCAP). Sherry has been involved in aerospace and automotive quality assurance for over ten years. She has worked actively with OEMs, prime contractors and suppliers in the development of numerous NADCAP and Q-Pass standards and audit programs and served as Staff Engineer for the NADCAP Aerospace Quality System. She has been instrumental in establishing and developing training programs for NADCAP special process and quality system auditors and has taught numerous quality auditing programs including AS9000, AS9100, Calibration Cooperative Auditor Training and Qualification, Root Cause Analysis, and others. Sherry also worked actively with the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) to develop the AIAG/PRI 2nd Party Auditor Training and Qualification where she is an instructor. She has also worked for PRI's affiliate SAE in the Technical Standards Division.
Reservations: by September 12th. Please call ESWP at 412-261-4300. Dinner is a catered buffet. Reservations must be made by noon on Friday, September 12th. Any cancellations after this time, or failures to show, will be charged the full cost.
Payment for the dinner meeting should be in the form of cash or check. Make checks payable to ISO Users Group of Western Pennsylvania.
Questions should be directed to Terry Beckwith or Mike Meketa.