ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS DIVISION
Members
Members are quality and reliability professionals concerned with all types and levels of
electrical and electronic products. All grades of products are covered from consumer and
commercial grades to the highest quality/reliability grades used for communications,
biomedical, nuclear, and aerospace applications.
Activities and Services
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Co-sponsors the Annual RELIABILITY and MAINTAINABILITY
SYMPOSIUM (RAMS) with Reliability Division and eight other societies
Sponsors sessions at national, regional, and local ASQ conferences, including the
Annual Quality Congress
Provides liaison to other professional societies and ASQ divisions
Publishes a quarterly newsletter, CONTINUITY
Participates on the Electronic Components Certification Board
Provides liaison to standards-writing organizations and reviews and comments on
drafts standards for ASQ
Includes 5 Technical Committees
Publications
Distributed only to Electronics and Communications Division Members
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CONTINUITY, the E&CD tri-annual newsletter
Copies of the quarterly IEEE Transactions on Reliability (and Journal of the ASQ
- Electronics and Communications Division) are available upon request by
contacting the ECD Transactions Chair
Copies of the Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium Proceedings are
available upon request by contacting the Proceeding Chair
Communications Systems Management Technical Committee
The Communications Committee interacts with the telecommunications industry through
participation in the QuEST Forum conferences and local ASQ sections. Members of the
committee contributed to the creation of the QuEST Forum and the development of the
Telecommunications quality management standard TL 9000. The committee is in the
process of developing a communications body of knowledge
Committee Chair is John Walz, johnwalz@ameritech.net
RoHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) Technical Committee
RoHS is the reduction of hazardous substances. Legislation is pending, or has been
enacted around the world to document and/or reduce the amount of hazardous substances
used in manufacturing. What substances are regulated? The primary 6 that are associated
with the RoHS designation include: Cadmium, Hexavalent Chromium, Lead, Mercury,
Polybrominated Biphenyls (PBB) and Polybrominated Diphenylethers (PBDE). The
committee is looking for members interested in joining the conversation and looking at
quality's role in the management of issues related to RoHS compliance.
The Chair is. Haiyu Qi, haiyu_QI@ Dell.com.
Linking Management Systems/SOX Technical Committee
The LMS/SOX committee studies how elements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Law can be
supported by the effective management and auditing of quality (QMS) and environmental
(EMS) systems. We also look at how linked management systems can address the unique
needs of finance, accounting, operations, quality, IT, legal and audit. Linking
management systems can help eliminate the silos that exist in most organizations.
The Chair is Sandy Liebesman, sandfordl@msn.com.
Nano Technology Technical Committee:
Nano Technology is the application of Nanoscience which involves working with matter
on an ultra-small scale of the size of One Nanometer. Examples of Nano Technology
Processes are: CNT (Carbon Nano Tubes), RTD (Resonance Tunneling Devices), QCA
(Quantum Cellular Automata), Nanowires and Nanofilms. Industries and Products that
use Nano Technology are: Electronics, Communications, Textiles, Medicine, Healthcare,
Bioscience, Construction and Automobiles.
The Committee Chair is Sanjiv Rai, s.r@ieee.org
ECD Electronics Technical Committee
The Electronics Committee covers a wide range of markets including data
networking, supply chain management, industrial automation, audio and video
systems, security and surveillance, aerospace and many other specialty
electronics markets. The products include test equipment, copper and fiber optic
cables, connectors, cable management products, power equipment, RFID
products and a whole variety of microelectronics equipment.
The Committee Chair is Lucy Kahn, lddy@aol.com