Education Program for Quality Show South
April 1, 2024
The QUALITY Show SOUTH, taking place May 1-2, 2024, at the Music City Center in Nashville, TN, will offer dozens of education sessions including half day workshops, Learning Theater presentations on the show floor and a keynote by Leifje Dighton, Executive Director of GE Appliance's Refrigerator Assembly Plant in Decatur, AL, who will discuss "How GE is Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Manufacturing." The trade show and conference will be co-located with The ASSEMBLY Show South with attendees having access to both events.
The education program will kick off on Tuesday, April 30, at the Music City Convention Center with the following two half day workshops followed by a Welcome Networking Reception:
- Validate a Best Practice Process with the BEST Tool: presented by Grace Duffy, President, Management & Performance Systems who will describe a structured process to develop and write a comprehensive best practice. The BEST tool is introduced as a process approach to gap analysis and improvement for creating a best practice or seeking a best practice as a benchmark (9:30 AM to 11:30 AM).
- GD&T Fundamentals-Position Tolerances: presented by Dustin Smith, Metrology & Software Training Lead for Assurance Technologies, Inc. (ATI) who will discuss the fundamentals needed to understand true position and calculating the actual position; effects of MMC & LMC on position tolerance; calculating bonus tolerance; and analyzing results and reporting the correct data (1:30 PM to 3:30 PM).
This event will begin on Wednesday, May 1, with a keynote address that will be open to all Quality Show South and ASSEMBLY Show South attendees and exhibitors. The trade show floor will be open from 10 AM to 5:30 PM and the following presentations will be offered in the Learning Theater:
- Using Data to Drive Organizational Action: Mark Nash, President, Pinnacle Partners West, and Sophronia Ward, Statistician Specializing in Continual Process Improvement for Pinnacle Partners
- The Magic of Problem Solving: Dr. Saso Krstovski, an engineer with a profound academic background as well as the 2023 Quality Professional of the Year
- Advanced 3D Scanning Systems for Part Modeling and Inspection: Michael Raphael, Founder & CEO, Direct Dimensions, Inc.
- Elements of Quality 4.0 Supporting a Digital Transformation: Dr. Milton Krivokuca, Interim Program Coordinator for the Master of Science Quality Assurance program at California State University Dominguez Hills, Carson, CA
- Ethics & NDT: An Aerospace Whistleblower Shares His Story: Dale Norwood, Owner & NDT Level 3-Norwood NDT Consulting.
The Learning Theater will feature the following sessions and subject matter experts on Thursday, May 2, from 9:30 AM to 2:15 PM:
- Boosting Efficiencies: The Impact of Integrating Quality and Manufacturing Data: Will Biglin, Senior Solutions Engineer, Deltek
- Process Maps-a Vital Tool for Lean: James Spichiger, Immediate Past Chair, ASQ Inspection Division
- Regaining Manufacturing Leadership Through Excellence: Praveen Gupta
- Wicked Good Leadership: Leveraging Lean to Engage People and Grow your Business: Paul Critchley, President, New England Lean Consulting
- Panel Discussion with Lara Threet, Program Coordinator, Mississippi State University; Gavin Hatcher, VP of Manufacturing, HOL-MAC Corporation; and John Latimer.
For more information contact:
The Quality Show
www.qualitymag.com/quality-show-south
The ASSEMBLY Show South
assemblymag.com/the-assembly-show-south
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