Hong
Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) wishing you fortune and good health in the Rabbit
Year 2023!Previous design for Chinese Year from 2020 to
2022 recorded in reference.
We
had held the 2nd exco meeting on 7 Jan 2023 online and took a group
photo for memory. We are planning different activities including seminar/webinar,
workshop and visit in coming year and expected to become normal soon.
I always summarized my whole years’ quality related
activities at the end of each year since 2008. It is my 15 years to do this
summary and is a good time for me to review all my studies which I have shared
to world quality professionals regularly. My quality related activities are classified
as 8 different types and they are “Seminar/Webinar”, “Training/Workshop”, “Visit”,
“Conference”, “Invited Speaker”, “Teaching Course”, “Professional Gathering”
and “Arrange Visit to HKSTP”. The following diagram showed the overall
activities from 2008 to 2022. The top frequency year is in 2015. When I serviced
in HKSTP, I arranged different visits for university, government department
(HKAS), professional bodies (HKIE, HKSQ) and customer. It is mainly to visit our
laboratories.
For pie chart, the top three activities in 15 years
period are Seminar/Webinar (42%), Professional Gathering (19%) and Conference
(13%). It is my learning practice through seminar/webinar. Networking with
different professional is the second and the third is attending conference
including local and international. I have attended ANQ Congress for 20 years
since 2003. Other activities including visit (9%), attending training/workshop
(7%) and to be invited as speaker (5%), as well as, performed training course
(1%).
The following analysis diagram separated each
activities by years. Since the top two activities (Seminar/Webinar and
Professional Gathering) are compared high frequency (within 20 to 60 per year),
it is separated from other activities to draw another diagram. The other activities
are drawn into the last diagram (below 20 per year). It is easier to observe
the variation by year.
In the coming year, I will still attend quality
related activities that I am interested in, as well as, to share for different
quality professional in HKSQ, ANQ, ASQ and IAQ, etc. One of trend of my studies
will be shift from quantitative to qualitative.
The 21st
Asia Network for Quality (ANQ) Congress will be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
in 2022. ANQ 2023 website will be established soon.A sad news that we missed two ANQ friends last year
and let’s remember their contribution - Dr.
Ngo Van Nhon (VQAH) and Dr.
Takeyoshi Kaneko (JSQC).
The introduction of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam video
was showed at the end of the 20th ANQ Congress by VQAH.
The
important dates of the Congress are shown below:
Call for Paper (Temporary)
Application
Open: 15 Apr 2023
Deadline
for Abstract Submission: 1 Jul 2023
Deadline
for Full Paper Submission: 15 Jul 2023
Deadline for Registration: 17 Jul 2023 (Early Bird)
Venus: Ho
Chi Minh City (Onsite) and Via Zoom (Online)
Congress Schedule
16 Oct 2023 (Mon) : ANQ CEC Meeting
17 Oct 2023 (Tue) : ANQ Board Meeting
18-19
Oct 2023 (Wed & Thu) : Congress
20 Oct 2023 (Fri) : Technical
Visit
Summary
of past activities of ANQ Congress were recorded in my blog in ANQ History.
Theme is “Striving for Excellence through
Product and Service Quality”.
The ANQ
2012 Congress was held in Hong Kong and post-congress news included Feedback
Questionnaire, Media Reports, Messages from ANQ Friends, Congress Report and
Photo Gallery are posted at http://www.hksq.org/anq2012/post_anq_news.html
.
