ASQ Charleston Section Meeting

Applying Dr. Deming's Methods to Current Quality, Safety, and Health Issues.

Link to WebEx meeting

This presentation will introduce you to Dr. Deming's System of Profound Knowledge.  This is an interesting mix of the "hard side" such as statistical analysis and understanding systems, with the "soft side" of psychology and culture.  We will discuss how Statistical Process Control interacts with Human Performance, Theory of Knowledge (how do I know what I know) with Operational Definitions and System Thinking.

Steve will relate personal stories, and stories from his mentors who worked with Dr. Deming, as well as his experience with Nuclear Safety and teaching college students about quality assurance.  This will be a lively presentation, as Steve was known as the "passionate statistician" on Nuclear Sites, and is a great story teller.  Come and participate in an ongoing Quality Story.

Steve Prevette is an advocate of Dr. Deming’s management methods and applies Statistical Process Control to performance metrics. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, and also an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer.

Steve currently teaches courses for Southern Illinois University at Carbondale for Information Technology. Courses include Statistics, Python programming, and Structured Query Language (SQL). He has been active with the American Society for Quality since 1996. His home is in Graniteville South Carolina, with his wife Jennie, two dogs, and the “train room.” Steve is a past chair of the Columbia Basin ASQ section and has maintained ties with the Section since moving to South Carolina in 2009, acting as its current webmaster.