Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): HKIE Webinar - Route to Registered Quality Management Engineers

2020年11月19日星期四

HKIE Webinar - Route to Registered Quality Management Engineers

The HKIE webinar named “Route to Registered Quality Management Engineers” was co-organized by OUHK-S&T, HKIE CA, MI divisions, HKICA, IET-Hong Kong and InstMC(HK) on 19^th Nov 2020. For global market, mutual recognition of professional qualification for cross boarder services is one of the key factors to the success. This webinar aimed to introduce the registration scheme of Quality Management Engineers, Mutual Recognition Agreement between HKICA and Guangdong Product Certification Service Association (粤港澳大湾区质量管理工程技术人才资格互认), career path of Registered Quality Management Engineers in China and HKQF - Recognition of Prior Learning for Testing and Certification Practitioners. In the beginning, Dr. SL Mak (OUHK) introduced the speakers.

The first speaker was Ir Dr. Tommy Lo (President of Hong Kong Institution of Certified Auditor (HKICA) and Associate Professor in the Architecture and Civil Engineering Dept, CityU) and his topic entitled “Registered Quality Management Engineers – Greater Bay Areas Engineer Professional”.

In the beginning, Dr. Lo briefed the background of HKICA and they were the first association to achieve SIO 17024 by CNAS. In this year, they extended scope to cover Quality Management Engineers for GBA.

After that he briefed the Quality Management Engineer (QME) which was a professional in charging QA of an organization with ISO 9001 QMS audit knowledge and engineering background or training.

Finally he described the QME requirements including Training (e.g. at least 16hr internal audit training course), Competence and Experience. There were three grade of QME that was Associate QME (AQME), QME and Senior QME (SQME). Mainly different was in “Competence and Experience”. The link of application form is at http://hkica.org/membership-application-form/ .

The representative for Mr. Chen Yaojin, (Deputy President of Guangdong Product Certification Service Association) presented Quality Management Engineer (QME).

She firstly briefed the background of QME which related the government policy document named “關於深化工程技術人才職稱制度改革的指導意見” in Guangdong.

Then she briefed the Mutual Recognition Agreement between HKICA and Guangdong Product Certification Service Association (粤港澳大湾区质量管理工程技术人才资格互认). The purpose of QME to enhance the competitive edge, job opportunity and establishing professional standard in quality management, etc.

Finally, she mentioned the evaluation method and through once examination to obtain two certificates which recognized in GBA. Lastly, the whole application process was introduced.

The last speaker was Ir Dr. Fanny Tang (Director of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) Assessment Agency for Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC)) and her topic was “RPL Assessment Agency for Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry”.

Firstly, Dr. Tang briefed the RPL assessment scheme and its background under HKQF that OUHK was appointed assessment agency of RPL for TIC industry.

Then she introduced different functional areas of TIC industry and briefed the categories of the test such as Physical and Mechanical Test, Chemical and Microbiological Test, as well as, Electronic and Electrical Test.

After that she briefed the RPL clusters which selected by applicants those fit with their experience. Most of applicants applied level 4 clusters that one of examples to be demonstrated was QA of Inspection Operation.

Lastly, Dr. Fanny Tang briefed the assessment methods including written test, interview, practical assessment and its combination that depended on the level of RPL clusters.