Chairman's Message

As May draws near, the Statistics Division (SD) is actively preparing for its participation in the 41st Annual Quality Congress, to be held this year in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May 4 fi"4, through May 6. Our program chairman, Bob Perry, has lined up a number of exciting presentations within four Division-sponsored technical paper sessions. Two of these sessions will be highlighted by tutorials based on recent volumes in the "How-to" booklet series. Neil D. Cox will present material from his booklet entitled "How to Perform Statistical Tolerance Analysis" and Thomas P McWilliams will speak on "Sequential Methods in Quality Control." We are also trying to arrange informal question and answer sessions with both authors at the Congress. Times and locations will be announced at the sessions and posted at the Statistics Division booth. Another innovative feature will be the presentation of case studies in quality and productivity by Lynne Hare and Blan Godfrey. Both presentations are offshoots of last year's very successful panel discussion on "The Statistician's Role in Quality Management" and should be well worth hearing. We are also pleased to be supported by other fine authors and speakers, including Gordon Constable, George Tagaras, Hua Lee, James Kenney, Louis Cabana, Tom Barker, Madhav Phadke, and Carey Parks. We shall very soon be finalizing plans for the 1988 Annual Quality Congress to be held in Dallas. If you have any suggestions for the program, or would like to submit an abstract, please contact our program representative, George Marrah, at (703) 5686534.