香 港 品 質 學 會 Society for Quality

World Partner of American Society for Quality (ASQ) Founding member of Asian Network for Quality (ANQ)

Event Highlights December 2013 – December 2014

Quality and Innovation Today Success Tomorrow

home page: http://www.hksq.org E-mail: [email protected] HKSQ, P.O. Box 84375, Hunghom Bay Post Office, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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On these pages, we are pleased to report the major events and activities of HKSQ in the period from December 2013 to December 2014. Through these functions, we have been able to continuously achieve our mission of providing continuing education to professionals involved in the quality and reliability disciplines.

I. Seminars a) Seminar on "Quality Management makes people and organization SMARTER", 26 November 2013 Speaker: Professor Yoshinori Iizuka, Professor Emeritus, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

b) Seminar on "Innovative Total Quality Improvement - PKIR (問知創行) Innovation Model", 11 December 2013 Speaker: Dr. Victor Lo, Vice Chairman - Institute of Systematic Innovation

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c) Seminar on "Building a Culture of Service Excellence", 23 December 2013 Speaker: Mr. Kitson Leonard Lee, Honorary Secretary of Singapore Quality Institute and Senior Consultant/ Facilitator at aAdvantage Consulting Group in Singapore

d) Seminar on "A Strategic Direction for Hong Kong Wine Industry", 25 January 2014 Speakers: Mr. Eden Wong, General Manager, VplusU Company Limited Mr. Andrew Yu, Solution Development Manager, GS1 Hong Kong Mr. Adam Kwan, Assistant VP, Technology Development, PCCW

e) Seminar on "Enterprise Risk Management - the MTR Practice", 11 February 2014 Speaker: Dr. Henry Yu, Senior Manager - Enterprise Risk, MTR

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f) Seminar on "Why an innovation-based business should consider IP audit?", 25 July 2014

g) Seminar on "A World Quality Month Event - The Culture of Quality Research Study", by Ron Kinge, ASQ Former President and Chairman, 1 November 2014

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II. Local & Overseas Conferences

a) HKSQ organized the Chinese Quality Forum (CQF) (華人品質論壇) held in Hong Kong, 14 March 2014 Speakers and participants from: Association for Quality (CAQ), Chinese Society for Quality (CSQ), Singapore Quality Institute (SQI), The Standard and Quality Association of Thailand (SQAT) and Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ)

b) Delegates of HKSQ participated in The Innovation of the China Quality - 2014 The 7th Zero Defect Management International Summit (中國品質的創新峰會—第七屆零缺陷國 際峰會) held in Beijing, 24 May 2014

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c) Former HKSQ Chairman and Country Counselor of ASQ in Hong Kong participated in ASQ’s World Congress on Quality & Improvement (WCQI) 2014 held in Dallas, TX, 5 to 7 May 2014

d) Delegates of HKSQ participated in ANQ Congress 2014 held in Singapore, 5 to 8 August 2014

e) Delegates of HKSQ participated in International Quality Conference (CQI) 2014 held in Tokyo 19-22 Oct 2014

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III. Study Missions and Technical Visits a) Technical visit to Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (廣汽豐田) and to Techtronic Industries (Dongguan) Co., Ltd. (TTI), 13 December 2013

b) HKSQ Study Mission 2014 to Hangzhou and , 15-19 April 2014 Technical visit to Department of Mechanical Automation, Shanghai University, Marsh Engineering Hangzou Corporation Limited (MEH), and C&C RFID (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.

c) Technical visit to Towngas, Innovative Quality System, 25 April 2014

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d) Visiting Association for Quality, 9 September 2014

e) Technical visit to LSG Sky Chef, 8 November 2014

f) Technical visit to Alibaba Hong Kong, 12 December 2014

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IV. 2014 Student Project Competition

The annual Student Project Competition jointly sponsored by Woodley Agri-Service Company Limited and Green Technology Consortium. The plant visit to Hong Kong Organic Waste Resources Centre (HKOWRC) (有機資源再生中心), Buddhist Chi King Primary School (佛教慈敬學校) and Kee Wah Bakery(奇華餅家) in March 2014 to study the current practices on food waste.

HKSQ delegates, University tutors, student Mr. Eddie Chan (left) and Mr. Kwok Ming winners, and the project competition sponsors Cheung (right) of the sponsors present took a group photo with Mr. Wong Kam-sing the prize to the Champion Team (from (JP, Secretary for the Environment, HKSAR) The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

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V. Networking with Quality Professionals and Quality Professional Bodies a) Meeting Mr. Anshuman Tiwar - ASQ Fellow, Chair of the Local Member Communities (LMC) in Bangalore, India, and Senior Process Consultant / Vice President in HSBC Electronic Data Processing (India) Pvt. Ltd., 19 Feb 2014

b) Meeting Mr. John Hunter (Senior Facilitator, The W. Edwards Deming Institute; President, Curious Cat Ltd.), 15 May 2014

c) Meeting Professor Shu Yamada - Professor of Graduate School of Business Sciences (GSBS) at University of Tsukuba, 9 July 2014

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d) Gathering with HKSQ members after the AGM, 25 July 2014

e) Meeting Professor Kwok Tsui (Chair Professor and Head of SEEM Dept., CityU and Fellow of ASQ) and Mr. Fred Zhang (General Manager, ASQ China), 19 September 2014

f) Meeting Ms. Jane Seddon – Chairman of Process Management International (PMI), 5 November 2014

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VI. Year Plan and Strategic Meeting

The Executive Committee met on 21 August 2014 to formulate the strategic direction and activity plan for the 2014/2015 session. Members applied the Benchmarking and Quality Function Deployment tools to plan for the Society development and position in the following year.

Second row from left: Mr. Derek Kung, Mr. Ricky Suen, Mr. Eric Suen, Mr. SW Lam, Dr. Ken Yau, Mr. Ben Tsang, Dr. Zoie Wong, Dr. Frankey Pun, Mr. Humphrey Lee and Dr. Jacky Ting. Front row from the left: Dr. Lotto Lai, Miss Minda Chiang, Miss Angela Wong, Mr. Peter Fung, Dr. Albert Tsang and Dr. Aaron Tong.

Website : www.hksq.org Email : [email protected] Phone : (852) 2766 6591, Fax : (852) 3522 4128 PO Box 84375, Hunghom Bay Post Office, Kowloon, Hong Kong.

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