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About NEQC...

WHAT IS NEQC?

The North East Quality Council (NEQC) is a grouping of over twenty Sections of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), located in the North East. There are no membership dues; NEQC is dedicated to provide educational seminars, conferences and training.

NEQC provides free section volunteer training for potential and current volunteers NEQC provides educational seminars, conference, and training opportunities to ASQ members and non-members NEQC provides Scholarships to students NEQC supports sections by providing Free member leadership training Seminar discounts for volunteers One person admittance with discount at conferences Communications among sections for sharing “best practices" NEQC Provides Free Round Table Sessions

Member Section are: Berkshire Granite State Hartford Long Island Metropolitan Naugatuck Valley North Jersey Princeton Southern CT Thames Valley Worcester Boston Greater Danbury Hudson-Mohawk Merrimack Valley Mid-Hudson New Haven Old Colony Rhode Island Tappan Zee Western Mass Vermont

NEQC again sponsored FREE Section Leadership Training, working with Region Director Herb Goldstein and Cynthia Nazario from ASQ headquarters. Training was held June 3rd in Marlborough, MA and on June 17th in Suffern, NY. Both locations were very successful this year with over 30 people attending each of the training events! Our next free training sessions will be scheduled for April/May, 2012. Plan to attend this free training!!

This course will help you understand the requirements of the EU’s Medical Device Directive (MDD) and how to apply the CE Mark to medical devices. Participants will understand the requirements of the MDD including device classification, essential requirements, and conformity assessment paths.

This risk management course is designed to provide participants with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to effectively develop a risk management program. The ISO 14971 Risk Management Standard will be reviewed & analyzed in detail. As a management tool used throughout a product’s life, risk analysis can reduce errors, liability and cost by prioritizing the most important risk concerns early. The course will feature both lecture and an active question-and-answer portion to bring real life situations to participants. Please bring risk issues to discuss.

Understand and determine how to audit to the AS9100C standard. Do you know how to conduct a value added audit? This course has been designed to help you understand and determine how to perform an internal or external process & system audit for the AS9100C Management System, as well as showing how to effectively document and deploy it for optimum results.

Today’s businesses are experiencing savings of 20 to 25 % of total revenues as the result of implementing Six Sigma & Lean. We have developed this seminar to present Six Sigma & Lean, and show you the knowledge you need to develop and implement a program which will achieve high Return On Investment. This seminar will help you to transform real world problems into real time solutions!

Are you looking to become certified by the recognized body of ASQ? Learn what you will need to take the Certified Bio Medical Auditor Exam!

The Certified Biomedical Auditor needs to understand the principles of standards, regulations, directives and guidance for auditing a biomedical system while using various tools and techniques to effectively evaluate the system. This course will give you the knowledge and the tools to analyze the system and reports to ensure compliance and identify deficiencies.

This course has been designed to help you understand the requirements of FDA regulations and focuses on regulatory requirements specific to Medical Devices. Although specific to Medical Devices, this course is also helpful to Pharma and Biologic firms to understand how FDA is applying the Quality System Regulation to their industries.

Are you looking for a way to better your business? Then, this is the seminar for you. This seminar is for companies that want to identify and eliminate unnecessary costs of poor quality and non-value added activities. Reserve your space and let us show you how your organization can develop/implement programs & systems to achieve improvements!

This seminar is designed to help you understand the process validation concepts, documentation requirements, and how to validate. This course is for the Manufacturing Industries, including Medical Devices & Pharmaceutical.

This course is for Quality professionals, engineers, managers, manufacturing people and anyone involved in improving processes. This one-day course has been designed to help you understand the measurement system methodologies including the metrics, analysis & improvement tools & techniques. Students will also learn how to measure customer satisfaction.

Are you looking to become certified by the recognized body of ASQ? Learn what you will need to know to take the Certified Pharm. GMP Professional Exam! This refresher course will briefly cover all items of the Body of Knowledge as identified by ASQ. (Please check www.ASQ.org for details.) The instructor will spend time on multiple choice question/answer sessions to ensure students are prepared for the exam.

Do you want to optimize and have one integrated system rather than many? Do you need to streamline quality systems? This seminar provides you with a roadmap to integrate various systems, existing policies and procedures. It may include systems: Quality Management Systems (e.g., ISO 9001, FDA QSR, ISO 13485, AS 9100c, TS 16949), Environmental/Safety Management Systems (e.g. ISO 14001, OHSAS 18001) and Financial Systems (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley, and others)

All seminars are taught by experienced instructors with 20+ years of experience and appropriate ASQ and other Certifications.

Register soon, as space is limited!

NEQC Administration, Pam Martel, Phone: (508) 987-3800
E-mail: Registration@neqc.org Website: www.neqc.org

For course questions, contact NEQC Marketing Chair, Jay Patel at jayp@qpsinc.com

• Submission deadline is Feb. 1, 2012.
• Only those proposals received before the deadline will be considered.
• All submissions should be MS Word Documents in the form of an abstract, including title, purpose, brief outline/overview and the speaker’s biography.

NEQC's 58^th Conference was a great success! Below are some of the details of the event.

The event was held in October 2010 at the Royal Plaza Hotel in Marlborough, MA.

We had 3 Keynote speakers and 40 sessions during the 2-day conference relevant to the theme "4P's – People, Process, Project, Performance for a New Economy". There were also pre and post-conference seminars held.

Our upcoming 59^th conference should prove to be just as informative and rewarding!