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ASQ Silicon Valley to Hold Annual Quality Conference
August 26, 2019 | PRWEBEstimated reading time: 2 minutes
The Silicon Valley Quality Conference 2019 is designed for quality professionals, entrepreneurs, corporate project leaders, and executives looking to attain excellence and results. Our quality conference provides the opportunity to participate, learn, explore evolving quality direction and tools, and identify new dimensions of Quality in emerging markets. Quality has, does, and shall play a critical role in the industry and evolving technologies: autonomous, medical devices and drone systems.
Topics for the ASQ Silicon Valley Annual Quality Conference 2019 include the following:
- Medical Devices—Bioelectronics and Biosensors, and Regulatory Compliance for Medical Devices
- Manufacturing—Semiconductors and High-Tech Manufacturing, and Contract Manufacturing
- Autonomous/Data Sciences—Quality of Autonomous Systems, and AI/ML and Quality
- Quality—Leadership in Emerging Technology, and Quality in a Startup Life Cycle
- OpEx—Operational Excellence through Technology, and CAPA vs Risk Assessment
- Leading ASQ—ASQ in the Internet Age, and Member Success Stories Contest
Keynotes will be delivered by Rich Fitzgerald, Chief Operating Officer (COO), SMTC Corporation, and Michael Rausch of Montez Group.
“According to Aristotle, 'Quality is not an act, it is a habit.' We live that motto every day at SMTC. We are committed to supporting ASQ Silicon Valley Quality Conference 2019 that presents exciting speakers and an agenda in line with our passion for operational excellence,” says Rich Fitzgerald, COO of SMTC.
The Conference will be a great opportunity to network and learn tools to achieve better and faster performance for technology and conventional products and services.
Join us on October 8th at Marriott Fremont and listen to leaders and subject matter experts who challenge the status quo and forge new paths for the quality profession.
The sponsors include SMTC Manufacturing, Platinum Sponsor and Montez Group, Gold Sponsor. Our selected exhibitors include GetKaizened, Larson Packaging, and Risk Driven Quality Consulting Company.
About ASQ Silicon Valley Section
American Society for Quality (ASQ) is a community of experts and the leading authority on quality in all fields, organizations, and industries. ASQ Silicon Valley Section is a knowledge-based local community of quality professionals dedicated to the promotion and advancement of quality tools, principles, and practices in their workplaces and in their communities. We offer monthly dinner meetings, educational courses, seminars, conferences and preparatory programs for ASQ Certifications.
About SMTC Corporation
SMTC, publicly-traded, SMTX on Nasdaq, is a mid-size provider of end-to-end electronics manufacturing services (EMS) including PCBA production, systems integration, and comprehensive testing services, enclosure fabrication, as well as product design, sustaining engineering and supply chain management services. SMTC has facilities in the United States, Mexico, China and Canada. Services extend over the entire electronic product life cycle from the development and introduction of new products through to the growth, maturity and end-of-life phases.
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