Quality Audit Division (QAD) Business Meeting

A. Call to Order and Quorum

Chairman Charlie Robinson called the meeting to order at 8:00 a.m.
on February 24, 1996  and called for a quorum. There being present
at least 15 Regular Members in good standing, including at least 7
Division Council members, a quorum was present.

B. Secretary's Report (Richard Powe)

The minutes for the October 14, 1995 QAD meeting in Kansas City,
MO were previously published in Vista and were approved as
published. There has been a good response to the request for
update to the Active Members List. The plan is to go to press in
March 96.

C. Chairman's Report (Charlie Robinson)

Charlie Robinson read a note from the family of James Dunn that
thanked all the QAD members who supported them during their loss.
Mr. Dunn was a valued member of the QAD and passed away this past
year. The most important item for discussion today will be the
results of the joint QAD/CSD Survey and the possible merger of the
QAD and CSD. This subject will be discussed later.

D. Treasurer's Report (Dick Baehr)

Based on information as of 12/31/95: Net Worth $238,632

E. Conference Committee Report (Norm Frank)

The 5th Annual Quality Conference seemed to be an outstanding
success. Over 525 people attended making it the second largest
yet. Putting two inches of space between each chair in response to
prior comments on over crowding received a round of applause from
the attendees when announced. Speaker Gordon MacKenzie, speaking
on Orbiting the Giant Hairball for lunch on Thursday was the first
speaker in our short history to receive a standing ovation at the
end of his talk. Norm liked the magician. Norm thanked everyone
who helped make this conference the success that it was. Many
people helped throughout the year to bring everything together in
the final two weeks. The next conference will be at the Doubletree
Inn near the Los Angeles, California, airport. Dave Kildahl, the
1997 Conference Chair, discussed the possibility of some members
performing an assessment of Universal Studios as a pre-conference
tutorial. There was an overwhelming positive response to the
suggestion.

F. Vice Chair-Administration Report (Wendy Finnerty)

All regional councilor positions were filled except Region 5.
Susan Gowen is now the Region Councilor for Region 4. She is
replacing Shyam Banik who was transferred out of Region 4 by his
employer. Norm Frank resigned as Region 5 Councilor since he has
changed employment and is now residing in Calsbad, NM. 

E1. Auditing Committee Report (David Kelly)

The Audit of the 1995 QAD financial books was completed. There was
no indication of any problems with what the QAD Treasurers had
done; however there were some concerns regarding how ASQC
Headquarters was handling the QAD account. A letter was prepared
for the QAD Chair signature to ASQC Headquarters to express the
concerns.

E2. Bylaws Committee Report (Robert Trepanier)

A revision to the current (11/11/93) By-Laws is being developed
and anyone who has suggested changes should contact Robert
Trepanier at: BF Googrich AIS, 100 Panton Road, Vergennes, VT
05491, W 802/877-4485, F 802/877-4160.

E3. Examining Committee Report (Jeff Jaswa)

Ron Akers and Dennis Arter were both elected as Fellows of the
ASQC since our last meeting.

E4. Newsletter Report (Dennis Arter)

ASQC Headquarters is now printing and distributing Vista. The
newsletter will be located on the World Wide Web in about one
month. At the last meeting Dennis reported that he was in the
process of phasing out as Editor. This will take place gradually
over the next year or two. There has been little progress in
finding a volunteer replacement.

E5. Membership Committee Report (Mike Dempsey)

As of December 1995 we have 15,402 members. The four largest
divisions of ASQC are Quality Management, Quality Audit,
Statistics and Inspection. Of the four largest divisions, QAD is
the only one with a net increase in membership in 1995. We
increased 13.2% in 1995.


REGULAR       13,501
SENIOR           792
FELLOW            70
HONORARY           1
STUDENT          242
SUSTAINING       796

GRAND TOTAL   15,402

E6. Publicity Committee Report (Mike Beeler)

The Display Booth was sent out to California where David Kelly set
it up at a two day Measurement Science Division meeting in
Anaheim. The QAD flyer is an on-going activity and should be
issued soon. It was recommended that a List of Suggested Material
for the booth be developed. Some concern was indicated regarding
the staffing of the booth at the Annual Quality Congress in
Chicago. The response was that the ASQC wants the booth staffed at
all times during the AQC and the booth is usually staffed almost
by magic. Urmil Desai suggested that someone be appointed to check
on the booth every two hours.

F. Vice Chair-Technical Report (Dennis Arter)

Dennis presented the results of a Cyberquery concerning the CQA.
The basic questions asked were: a. Should the CQA be changed;
b.Should the CQA include knowledge of  ISO 9001/2/3 and c. Should
the CQA become equivalent to the ISO 9000 Lead Assessor Course
final exam? Out of 121 responses 54 indicated that the CQA should
not be changed; 36 indicated that the CQA should include knowledge
of ISO 9001/2/3; 15 indicated that the CQA should be equivalent to
the ISO 9000 Lead Assessor Course final exam and 16 had
complicated responses but offered no clear choice. Dennis offered
the following questions to the 65 Business Meeting attendees: 
Should the CQA include more specific info from quality management
systems standards, including ISO 9001/2/3, but only situational
context - such as "ISO/ANSI/ASQC Q9001 requires.... How would you
handle the following situation?"   Only 5 were in favor. Should we
keep the CQA exam independent of specific knowledge of any
particular quality standard.? 30 said yes.

F1. Certification Committee Report (Dale Reaver)

The CQA exam history was presented. In 1987 308 people sat for the
exam and 56% passed. The numbers sitting for the exam increased to
a peak in 1993 of 6,537 with 45% passing,  

         Sat    Passed

1987     308      56%
1988     333      77%
1989    1080      70%
1990    1820      55%
1991    3013      38%
1992    6432      36%
1993    6537      45%
1994    5775      40%
1995    4261      52%

F2. Program Committee Report (Chuck Carlson)

Principle area of involvement is supporting the AQC. The QAD has
been given a two-hour session at the 50th annual AQC in Chicago.
Our time is 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday May 15th. The
QAD program topic is "W29-1 The Audit Challenge-Changing
Expectations"  . The 51st AQC will be May 5-7, 1997 at the Orange
County Convention Center in Orlando, FL. The QAD Team for the 51st
AQC is: QAD AQC Program Chair: Wallace Carson; Division Session
Manager: Les Easter; Technical Session Manager: W. L. Baker; and
Paper Reviewers: Les Easter, W. L. Baker and Wallace Carson.

F3. Publications Committee Report (J. P. Russell)

Development of the Quality Audit Handbook has been the primary
activity. The purpose of the Handbook is to interpret the
Certified Quality Auditor Body of Knowledge. The development is a
little behind schedule but within budget for submission to Quality
Press in August 1996 and available for purchase by January 1997.
The budgeted cost is between $37K to 44K. The First Wide Review of
the manuscript was distributed to reviewers and QAD Officers on
2/20

The QAD information pamphlet should be ready for the AQC in May.
It will include: mission statement, activities (meeting dates and
locations), committee organization, interfaces with other
committees (e.g. certification), CQA, interest in ISO 9000,
vision, and who to contact.

F4. Standards Committee Report (Archie Bice)

The standards committee is devoting its time to helping the
Subcommittee to the U.S. Tag 176 develop the U. S. position on the
proposed content of ISO Standards 10011-1 and -2 The US Tag is
meeting in Washington D.C. the week of February 26 - March 1,
1996. 

G. Strategic Planning Committee Report (Dave Kildahl)

The present Strategic Plan needs to be revised after decisions are
made concerning the possible merger with CSD

H.	QAD/CSD Survey and Resolution of Partnership (Richard Powe)

The results of the joint QAD/CSD survey were presented by Richard
Powe and Jeff Israel, CSD Secretary. Out of 3,581 mailed surveys,
1,118 useable surveys were received. On 2/16/96  a press release
was issued on the Internet and the ASQC BBS that summarized the
survey results and a 21 page report was provided. The press
release and Report  will be made available upon request to the QAD
Secretary. In summary: Reasons a Member joined QAD, over 80%
indicated they wanted to learn about auditing and stay current on
standards. Among the most suggested improvements were: More local
learning opportunities and expanded newsletter. Concerning the
Resolution of Partnership Support: over 90% were in favor of
exchanging articles and technical resources; 80% were in favor of
joint technical conferences and over 65% were in favor of
continuing to explore the possible merger of the two divisions.
The possible merger was further discussed in the Open Forum. NOTE:
R. Powe is offering the following message: Mr. Jeff Israel,
SatisFaction Strategies, 1535 N.W. 117th Court, Portland, OR
97229, 503/626-4666 was the prime developer of the Survey. Anyone
interested in having a quality survey performed should contact
him. He did an outstanding job.

I.	Open Forum (Charlie Robinson)

John Stratton reported that the RAB was going to be involved in
Certification of ISO 14,000 registrars and indicated that Cindy
Lee Miller (716/274-5375) had replaced the late Jim Dunn as QAD
Liaison with the RAB.

There were several motions placed on the floor for discussion of
the possible merger of the QAD and the CSD. The end result was
that the business meeting attendees did not believe that this was
the time to pursue merger. They did want to continue to work
together on such activities as a conferences.

J. Next Division Meeting and Adjournment

The 1996 Annual Quality Congress will be May 13-15, 1996 at the
Chicago Hilton and Towers in Chicago, IL. The next QAD business
meeting will be on Saturday May 11, 1996 at the same location as
the AQC. The Fall meeting will be at the Doubletree Hotel near LAX
on October 4-5, 1996. This General Business Meeting was completed
at 2:00 p.m. 

ATTENDEES
The following members of the ASQC Quality Audit Division attended
the February 1996 General Business meeting on Saturday February
24, 1996, in Kansas City, MO. They are awarded 0.6 ASQC
Recertification Units for this participation.

Ackermann, Collen Sue
Akers, Judith J.
Akers, Ronald L.
Altopiedi, Alfred T.
Ananthakrishnan, Kris
Arter, Dennis
Baehr, Richard M.
Baker, Walter L.
Beeler, Mike
Berg, Douglas
Bogdan, Mary Ellen
Boyle, John J.
Bryan, Blaine
Carlson, Wallace
Carpender, Bernie
Christianson, Barbara
Clark, Jim
Cline, Robert A.
Davis, Steve
Dempsey, Michae
Dersai, Urmil
Duarte, Jerry
Edwards, Traci VA
Finnerty, WendyFrank, Norman C.
Gauthier, Peter
Gauthier, Paul
Goss, Mike L.
Gould, Dick
Gowen, Susan D.
Harral, William M.
Hirzel, Rudolph C.
Humphries, Cynthia A.
Jaswa, Jeffrey
Jensen, Doris
Jewell, Rocky D.
Kelly, David
Kent, Darren S.
Kildahl, David
LaLonde, Pat
Love, Ken
Miller, Kurt J.
Miller, Ted R.
Mora, Rafael
Mutziger, Donald R.
Powe, Richard
Pronovost, Dennis
Raddatz, Janet
Rainsberry, Christine
Ramos, Ronald F.
Reaver, Dale E.
Regel, Terry L.
Reinhart, Linda A.
Robinson, Charlie
Russell, J. P.
St. Amour, Sr., Bruce A.
Sawyer, John E.
Schalon, Beverly S.
Serilla, John
Sheng, Stephen
Silver, Ben
Stratton, John H.
Tomlinson, Gene
White, Quitman
Ziebell, Leane C.W.