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CONTACT
Dan Tabish
(509) 922-7663
FAX: 509-922-7626
dan@inlandmet.com
www.sme248.org
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Introduction to Six Sigma - Short Course
Press release
Spokane, WA, October 25, 2013 — Dr. Martin Weiser, the current chairman of SME-Spokane (recently rebranded from the
Society of Manufacturing Engineers to indicate its broader appeal and reach) announced that the Spokane chapter will sponsor
a seminar or short course on Six Sigma Fundamentals. Weiser mentioned that among the topics to be covered in the seminar
will be the fact that Six Sigma is a methodology that can be used to complement LEAN methods. He added “Six Sigma and
Lean are two sides of the same process improvement coin. LEAN seeks to minimize waiting, overproduction, rework, excess
motion, over processing, excessive inventory and unnecessary transportation. On the other hand, Six Sigma is a discipline that
complements Lean by working to minimize or eliminate defects and variation with specific analytical tools.”
The course is scheduled to be held at Gonzaga University’s Herak Engineering building, Room 244. These will be evening
sessions and will be held on on Tuesday and Thursday, November 12 and 14, 2013 (6:00 – 9:00 PM) The course has been
developed for anyone in business or industry interested in improving the efficiency of their business processes. Although Six
Sigma became well known as a process used by industrial companies such as Motorola and GE, it is now widely used in other
business segments such as healthcare, banking, financial services, insurance and many others. This course is an introduction
to the Six Sigma toolbox. It will also help attendees understand the relationship between process variation, defects and
customer dissatisfaction. Weiser said "The course will do this by focusing on these subtopics:
- Variation is the enemy – and the basic statistics used to describe it
- Is your Process in Control? and why is this different from meeting specs?
- You can’t fix it if you can’t measure it – gage repeatability and reproducibility
- Hunting for the sources of variation with: process mapping, cause and effect and failure modes effects analysis.
- Pinning Down the Root Cause – Designed Experiments
The instructor is Martin (Marty) Weiser, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering and Technology, Department of Engineering & Design,
Eastern Washington University. Before joining EWU he was a Honeywell Certified Six Sigma Plus Blackbelt.
For more information see http://nov12sixsigma.eventbrite.com/ , contact: Dan Tabish at (509) 922-7663, FAX: (509)-922-7626
or email dan@inlandmet.com or Marty Weiser at (509) 359-2815 or email mweiser@ewu.edu SME promotes manufacturing
education and advances manufacturing awareness for the Inland Northwest Empire area. SME is the world's leading
professional society advancing manufacturing knowledge and influencing more than half a million manufacturing practitioners
annually. Through its local chapters, publications, expositions and professional development resources, SME promotes
awareness of manufacturing engineering and keeps manufacturing professionals up to date on leading trends and
technologies.
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SME Manufacturing Chapter 248 Phone: (509)-922-7663, Fax: (509) 922-7626, Email:
dan@inlandmet.com
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Dr. Martin (Marty) Weiser teaches Mechanical Engineering at Eastern Washington University and is a Honeywell Certified Six
Sigma Plus Blackbelt. He earned his BS in Ceramic Engineering from Ohio State University and his MS and PhD in Materials
Science and Mineral Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He joined the Mechanical Engineering
department at the University of New Mexico where he taught Materials Science, Thermodynamics, Manufacturing Engineering,
and Technical Communication. His next stop was with Johnson Matthey Electronics/Honeywell Electronic Materials where he
held positions in Technical Service, Product Management, Six Sigma, and Research & Development. Marty joined the
Engineering & Design faculty at EWU in 2010 and has taught Thermodynamics, Computer Aided Design and Project
Management, Industrial Safety Engineering, Capstone Design, Heat Transfer, MATLAB, and Numerical Methods. He has
published over 40 papers and book chapters and is inventor on a dozen patents and patent applications. His hobbies include
amateur high power rocketry, woodworking, pottery, bonsai, bicycling, and hiking.
SME Manufacturing Chapter 248 Phone: (509)-922-7663, Fax: (509) 922-7626, Email:
dan@inlandmet.com
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