posted Oct 9, 2010 4:34 PM by Dave Davidson
Sponsored by the Inland Northwest PMI Chapter
Building professionalism in project management ®
www.pmiinw.orgPlease Join Us for the Spokane Project Management Forum Presentation: The initial presentation will reveal the amazing new initiatives and benefits on display at PMI's Leadership Conference. The second incredible show will expose the fabulous and unheralded wonders of PMI's new, revamped, more efficient and colorful national website — as well as our own chapter's massive and inspirational Internet offering. Following the presentations the rapt audience will be invited to participate in a free-wheeling and lively exchange of ideas, concepts, viewpoints, controversial and stimulating dialogue and brainstorming about the current state and future plans and desires for our chapter. We want you to come, bring your ideas and help shape a vision of excellence in an interactive session that addresses the WIFM - What's In It For Me at PMIINW. Nine Amazing Secrets of Project Management! Your PMI Inland Northwest Chapter Board Warren Carpenter, President, has raised champion Yellow Tsongan Kurzweilers since his last birthday. Richard Brown, V.P. Programs, has written several prize-winning romance novels and screenplays under many pseudonyms. Vicki Behar, V.P. Education, is an accomplished flutophonist who once tuned up Queen Deja Thoris. Joe Tran, V.P. Membership, is a scale-model enthusiast who has built a 1:100 model of Scarywood Theme Park’s Boulder Beach in his basement. Roxanne Wachholz, V.P. Marketing, was previously a Hollywood voiceover actress who appeared in features with Tom Sellkirk and John Revolta. Cheryl Craig, Treasurer, does biomedical research as a hobby and has created a cure for Restless Arm Syndrome. Carl Paukstis, V.P. Communications, can lift heavy objects and make impressive guttural sounds. All meetings are free and open to anyone interested in learning more about projectmanagement. Students are encouraged to attend.Tuesday, October 19, 20105:30 pm networking6:00pm networking continues as we order no-host dinner6:30 PM to 7:30 PMConley's Place Restaurant & Pioneer Pies Bakery 12618 E Sprague Ave, Spokane Valley, 99216 - (509) 924-5411 Next meeting will be Tuesday, November 16, 2010 (third Tuesday) Earn valuable PDUs! For information on the upcoming events and the Inland Northwest PMI Chapter contact Carl Paukstis: vpcommunications@pmiinw.org To join the Project Management Institute or the Inland Northwest Chapter, call, visit or write! |
posted Jun 6, 2010 4:21 PM by Fred Cousins
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Social Hour: 5:30 pm networking Business Meeting: 6:00pm no-host dinner Event Speaker: 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Please Join Us for the Spokane Project Management Forum
Presentation: PMI Outreach: Second Harvest Food Bank Our chapter offers professional project management expertise to organizations in the greater Inland Northwest community. This month's program examines how our PMI chapter has assisted Second Harvest Food Bank in successfully completing a complex project. Second Harvest Inland Northwest is the leading hunger-relief network provider in the region since 1971. Second Harvest distributes more than 1 million pounds of donated food each month to help over 50,000 people in need in 26 counties in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho.
During 2009 and into 2010, 2nd Harvest faced major challenges with increasing demands for food and shifts in the types of food needed from the many different donors programs. These shifts were causing inefficiencies and would eventually lead to inequities in distribution that warranted changes in how the food came in, was stored, and how it could fairly be distributed to over 250 agency distribution points
Richard Brown of our PMI INW Chapter volunteered to help the food bank along with project management expertise. He will be talking about his experience at 2nd Harvest and the rewards in doing community outreach engagements. He will also discuss some of the obstacles that may be particularly troublesome in engagements with volunteer organizations. He'll start the presentation with a brief video about 2nd Harvest.
Presenter: Richard Brown, PMP Richard Brown, PMP has a BA in Mathematics from CWU with post graduate studies in Finance and Accounting. He moved to Spokane in the fall of 2009 after taking retirement from Daimler Trucks North America where he was an IT Manager in Portland, OR. Prior positions span all aspects of management including Director and VP levels. His experience includes work at Weyerhaeuser, PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Floating Point Systems. He also built and operated two restaurants. He does independent project management consulting and is currently engaged at Avista Corporation.
Attendees: All meetings are free and open to anyone interested in learning more about project management. Students are encouraged to attend.
Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Social Hour: 5:30 pm networking Business Meeting: 6:00pm no-host dinner Event Speaker: 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM
Place: Conley's Place Restaurant & Pioneer Pies Bakery 12618 E Sprague Ave, Spokane Valley, 99216 - (509) 924-5411
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posted Jun 4, 2010 7:58 AM by Dave Davidson
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| Event Type: | Networking/Meetup |
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| Location: | Inland Northwest Leadership Council Networking and Business Card Swap Meet
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| Price: | 5.00 |
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| Website: | http://www.apics-nwie.org/news.asp?item=91#detail |
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| Industry: | management consulting |
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| Keywords: | Organizational management for advancing productivity, innovation and competitive success |
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| Intended For: | Business owners, executives, managers, engineers, educators and members of any business, technical, professional, educational or municipal organizations |
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| Organization: | Association for Operations Management |
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INLC/APICS Networking Event Event Contact: Bryan Larson, APICS-NWIE President, bryanlarson79@live.com
Apics will be hosting the next Inland Northwest INLC Networking Event on Wednesday June 9th. We will give a short presentation on APICS and Cycle Counting. This event will be held at the Northern Lights Brewery at 6:00PM. The cost of this event is $5.00 which includes Hors D'oeuvres. Northern Lights Brewery 1003 East Trent Avenue Spokane, WA 99202-2185 For more information about INLC please visit their website. http://sites.google.com/site/inlandnwindustry/group-links APICS will be giving a brief presentation on Cycle Counting as well as an overview of the APICS organization. A five dollar donation to defray appetizer expenses will be asked. PLEASE REMEMBER TO BRING YOUR BUSINESS CARDS, AND PLEASE PASS ON THIS MEETUP NOTICE TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED Show less...
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posted Apr 11, 2010 11:58 AM by Dave Davidson
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THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING (THE FUNDAMENTALS) WHAT: GD&T SEMINAR/WEBINAR WHEN: May 8, 2010, 9:30 AM (Sign-in 9:00 am) WHERE: EWU, Cheney, WA Engineering Building COST: INLC organization members = $80.00, non-members = $100.00 SPEAKER: Brian Fisher, Portland, OR SPONSORED BY: EWU TECH CLUB, ASME, SME, INLC
( Cheney, WA. - April 9, 2010) William Persons (ASME) of the Eastern Washington University Tech Club announced today a professional Seminar/Webinar event is to be held at the University's Engineering and Computer Science facility. It will be a full day course with eight hours of certified professional development credit Engineering
Professionals
GD&T Seminar/
Webinar
Professionals and students alike, you do not want to miss this unique opportunity to stay
ahead of the pack in engineering continued education. Mr. Bryan Fisher is speaking on May 8th
at 9:30 a.m. on Geometric Design (Dimensioning) and Tolerance. Mr. Fisher has over 25 years of industrial
experience in GD&T holding multiple titles such as: GD&T Subject-Matter
Expert, GD&T Mentor, Tolerance Analyst, Dimensional Management Engineer, Trainer
and Consultant in GD&T, and many more.
He is sharing his Knowledge with both professional and student engineers
that are interested in learning about GD&T. This will also be a great
opportunity to start your way on the path of the lucrative GD&T training
and certification. The Seminar will
include topics such as: · o What
is GD&T & why is it important
· o History
· o ASME
Y14.5M-1994 and ASME Y14.5-2009 Standards
· o Types
of geometry
· o Legal
issues pertaining to part definition and GD&T
· o Engineering
drawing & dimensioning and
tolerancing philosophy
· o Functional
Dimensioning and Tolerancing
· o GD&T
symbology
· o Plus
and minus dimensions and tolerances
· o Fundamental
rules and definitions overview
· o Features
and features of sizes
· o Center
geometry – Axes and center planes
· o Datums
and datum reference frames overview
· o Introduction
to geometric tolerance zones
· o Form
tolerances overview and examples
· o 8
hours of certified Professional Development Hours
And more concerning GD&T and how it will work for you in today’s
market and engineering practices.
You can sign up for this incredible opportunity by
registering at www.regonline.com/gdt_seminar.
Cost is $80 for members of Professional
Societies participating in the INLC, $100 for non-members
If you receive this email via a Professional Society, please get member
code from Chair.
Or contact William Persons for additional information or questions at persons@comcast.net Instructor Information: Bryan R. Fischer
Mr. Fischer is a published author and recognized authority in GD&T, Tolerance Analysis, 3D GD&T™, Model-Based Product
Definition and PMI, and Engineering Standards with over 25 years of industrial experience, having held positions as a GD&T
Subject-Matter Expert, GD&T Mentor, Tolerance Analyst, Dimensional Management Engineer, Project Engineer, Design Lead,
Designer, Checker, Checking Mentor, Design Drafter, CAD Systems Programmer, Trainer and Consultant in the areas of GD&T,
Mechanical Design, Drawing Quality, Dimensional Management and Tolerance Analysis.
He has experience working, training and consulting in many industries, both commercial and government, with companies ranging from very small to the largest
multi-national corporations. He has consulted with inspection and CAD software developers to help them improve their
implementations of GD&T, 3D PMI, and model-based product definition practices. He is a member of the American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and SAE International. He is proud to be an ASME
Certified Senior Level GD&T Professional. He was the founding President of the NW Chapter of the American Design Drafting
Association (ADDA) from 1992-1993. Mr. Fischer is an Adjunct Professor at the Oregon Institute of Technology.
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TitleTECH REPORT: GEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCINGPublished ByManufacturing Engineering MagazineProduct InformationPublished: Jul 10, 1986
DescriptionGEOMETRIC DIMENSIONING AND TOLERANCING, RAPIDLY BECOMING A UNIVERSAL ENGINEERING DRAWING LANGUAGE AND TECHNIQUE, IS AN INDISPENSABLE TOOL THAT ASSISTS PRODUCTIVITY, QUALITY, AND MARKETING AROUND THE WORLD.SME IdentificationProduct ID: ME86ART37
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posted Mar 6, 2010 9:14 PM by Fred Cousins
An American Society for Quality (ASQ) event with dinner, speaker and tour will be held on Thursday, March 25th beginning with dinner at Milford’s Fish House (N. 719 Monroe) at 5:30 and ending with YMCA tour concluding before 9pm. Cost is $20 for ASQ members and $28 for all others.
Rig Riggins, President and CEO of Inland Northwest YMCA will be speaking on “Achieving and Managing Growth in Difficult Economic Times”. After the speaker, we will walk two blocks for a hosted tour of the YMCA. Please do not park at the YMCA.
Rig Riggins is a 41-year YMCA career professional and has has been the President & CEO for the YMCA of the Inland Northwest for nine years now and is responsible for the leadership and operation of an Association with an $14,000,000 annual operating budget. The YMCA currently has three full-facility branches (Central, North and Valley), a resident camp (Camp Reed), and the sponsoring organization for the Retired & Senior Volunteer program (RSVP). The YMCA currently employs 600 staff and provides membership and programs for 48,000 members and participants. The YMCA, in collaboration with the YWCA, is nearing conclusion of a $40,500,000 capital campaign.
Our annual meeting this year will include a dinner with speaker followed by a guided tour of the downtown YMCA. You must RSVP to this event.
Cost is $20 for ASQ members, and $28 for spouses, guests, and others.
Itinerary:
5:30—5:45 pm Arrival/networking at Milford’s Fish House 5:45—6:45 pm Dinner 6:45—7:15 pm Speaker, Rig Riggins, CEO Inland Northwest YMCA 7:15 pm Walk two blocks to tour YMCA 8:00 pm Tour concluded
Milford's Fish House - "Spokane's Freshest Seafood Since 1979"
Menu: Dinner will consist of soup, salad, and entree to be served in the elegant and spacious "Empire" banquet room. Typically there are up to five entree choices such as roasted salmon, scallops, & grilled steak or chicken.
Parking: There is a city parking lot about a 1/2 block away (across from the court house) and parking is free after 5pm. PLEASE DO NOT PARK AT YMCA
Location: N. 719 Monroe (Corner of Monroe & Broadway)
Phone: 509-326-7251
Web: http://milfordsfishhouse.com
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posted Mar 1, 2010 9:05 PM by Fred Cousins
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There will be three speakers for ASM Industry Forum Night
following the general membership meeting.
- Leo Robertson- Engineering Vice President, Pearson
Packaging: "The Ins and Outs of Robotic Packaging Systems"
- Don Ludington- Quality Engineer, MacKay Manufacturing:
"Overview of MacKay Shop Activities with Particular Attention to process
Validation and Quality Assessment"
- Dave Devine- Associate, Lee & Hayes Law Associates:
"Intellectual Property in Today’s Workplace"
Cost: $20 dollars - for Members and Guests, $5.00 for
students- price includes Salad, Dinner and a slice of Pie for Desert
Please RSVP by Friday, March 5th – for more
information, call High-Rel labs at (509)
325-5800 Marie Callender's 2111 North Argonne Road Spokane Valley, WA
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posted Mar 1, 2010 5:56 PM by Fred Cousins
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Eastern Washington University is offering a Project Management -
Competencies and Structures seminar on March 30th to April 1st, 2010
instructed by Linda C. Lopez, MBA, PMP. The 3 day seminar provides
the practical knowledge and hands-on exercises needed to start and
complete a project successfully.
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posted Feb 22, 2010 7:59 PM by Fred Cousins
INLAND NORTHWEST LEADERSHIP COUNCIL NETWORKING FOR BUSINESS, MANAGERIAL, ENGINEERING, EDUCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL PROFESSIONALS IN EASTERN WASHINGTON AND NORTHERN IDAHO
Wednesday March 10, 2010, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
A five dollar donation will be asked to defray appetizer expenses.
Please RSVP by using the LinkedIn Event RSVP method if at all possible, as this is a LinkedIn LIVE event.
http://events.linkedin.com/INLC-SME248-SOCIETY-MANUFACTURING/pub/229666
The last networking meetup was held at this location on Oct. 21, 2009. Attending were participants from a cross section of technical and professional societies located in Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho. The meeting served as both a networking event and as a forum for the societies involved to discuss potential mutual solutions to problems that the organizations face in common. Representatives from Gonzaga University, Eastern Washington University, The Spokane School District, the Greater Spokane Inc (the local chamber of commerce and economic development group) were in attendance, as well as many business and industry leaders. This follow-up event will permit people from these groups to gather and network together again.
Two program segments are scheduled for this event:
(1) SME will be presenting an INTRODUCTION TO EUREKA presentation. SME has an ongoing collaborative project with Doug Hall's Eureka Innovation System [SEE http://www.eurekaranch.com/TeamEureka/DougHall and http://www.eurekaranch.com/ ] The EurekaRanch organization also partners with the US Dept. of Commerce's NIST and MEP organizations. The Eureka organization offers a unique innovation acceleration program that could have a high impact on business planning and ideation, marketing and process and product development. This methodology relies heavily on process engineering disciplines to ferret out new business ideas and directions quickly. It is a method almost any business organization should be aware of.
(2) INLC will be giving a brief update on the progress of INLC (Inland Northwest Leadership Council) in developing effective collaboration to strengthen the groups involved and enhance business and professional growth opportunities in the Inland Northwest.
Northern Lights Brewery, 1003 E Trent Ave Spokane, WA 99202 US Cost: 5.00 Donation
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posted Feb 16, 2010 8:34 PM by Fred Cousins
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Training Within Industry (TWI) and Structured On-the-Job Training (S-OJT): Effective Training for a Lean Management System
Inland Northwest Lean Management Consortium (LMC)
Presentation Overview The Training Within Industry (TWI) program was successfully developed and utilized in the United States during WWII in response to an urgent need to increase production to unprecedented levels. Millions of civilians needed to be quickly and effectively trained to do production jobs as soldiers went off to war. After the war, this on-the-job training (OJT) program was exported to Japan to where it played a vital role helping to quickly rebuild their industrial base as a deterrent to social unrest. The TWI program became and continues to be, an integral part of the Toyota Production System. Building upon the TWI methodology, many successful companies going through their Lean transformation are now utilizing structured on-the-job training (S-OJT) to assure effective process standardization, improvement and training across their corporation. S-OJT is defined by Ronald Jacobs as “the planned process of developing competence on units of work by having an experienced employee train a novice employee at the work setting or a location that closely resembles the work setting”. Utilizing a well-executed S-OJT program has been a proven, measurable way to develop employee expertise and create an effective learning organization. Please join John Dickson and Dr. Robert Ketchum, Ph.D., as they review the TWI and S-OJT programs and highlight the importance of having a systems-level training approach for a company’s successful Lean transformation.
LinkedIn Event URL: http://events.linkedin.com/Training-Within-Industry-TWI-Structured/pub/23800 Date: February 25, 2010 Time: 10:00-11:30 am Location: SIRTI Building, Conference Room 432 Presenters: John Dickson and Dr. Robert Ketchum, Ph.D. About the Presenters: John Dickson 
John has over 25 years experience leading business improvement efforts in the aerospace and commercial sectors. He has been a keynote speaker on leading lean transformations of companies and organizations at multiple national conferences on Lean Leadership. He spent 23 years at Boeing, where he had leadership roles on the Sea Launch, B-2 Bomber, F-22 Raptor, 777 and 787 programs. Currently he is Owner and President of Dickson Consulting Services where he is using his experience to help regional companies succeed with their lean transformations (leanleader44@gmail.com). John is a highly-ranked continuous business and personal improvement trainer and was the 2nd ranked Dale Carnegie Leadership Trainer in the world in 2005 (over 3,000 trainers). He is an Executive Board Member of the Inland Northwest Lean Management Consortium (LMC) and the 2009-2010 Chairman of Spokane’s Society of Manufacturing Engineers’ (SME) Chapter 248. Dr. Robert Ketchum, Ph.D. 
Robert Ketchum holds a Ph.D. in vocational-technical education and has worked for over 35 years in education and training. Twenty of those years as Executive Director of Workforce Training at North Idaho College’s Workforce Training Center in Post Falls, Idaho. Dr. Ketchum lead on of the largest workforce training and apprenticeship programs in Idaho, and for 10 years was Idaho’s representative to the American Association of Community College’s Workforce Training State Liaison Network. Board roles include the National Council for Workforce Education, and Coeur d’Alene’s Job's Plus' economic development association. Dr. Ketchum has many years of teaching and training experience and is a certified facilitator for Achieve Global’s interpersonal and team skill training and for Paradigm Training's www.structuredojt.com SOJT Trainer System. Robert is an experienced national presenter on the topics of SOJT and training in China where he has consulted and participated in the delivery of training in Hong Kong and on the Chinese mainland. Robert is Chief Executive Manager of The Ketchum Group, LLC. The Ketchum Group offers the SOJT Trainer System, apprenticeship and work-based learning implementation, and workforce development strategies for local and state agencies. TKG can be reached at (208) 651.3100 or e-mail at r.ketchum@theketchumgroup.org.
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posted Feb 13, 2010 12:20 PM by Fred Cousins
http://www.relion-inc.com/default.asp
ReliOn Inc.
15913 E Euclid Ave
Spokane Valley, WA 99216 US
PLANT TOUR: BACKGROUND: ReliOn is the world leader in the development and marketing of modular, cartridge-based, proton exchange membrane fuel cell technology. Currently, we are marketing a range of stationary fuel cells for emergency and backup power requirements, uninterruptible power supplies, digital power needs and a variety of off grid power requirements. We serve private and public entities as diverse as telecommunications, energy, transportation, and government.
Facility: 29,300 square feet in Spokane, Washington for R&D, Product Development, Sales & Marketing, Administration.
Dinner: We will have an optional no-host dinner gathering at a local restaurant after the tour.
DIRECTIONS: From I-90 Eastbound, take the Sullivan Exit. At the end of the ramp turn left onto Sullivan Rd (North). Proceed north over the Spokane River approximately 1.25 miles and turn right onto Euclid Avenue. Relion is approximately ¼ mile on the left.
Google Maps Link:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=15913+E+Euclid+Ave+Spokane+Valley,+WA+99216+US&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.037246,93.076172&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=15913+E+Euclid+Ave,+Spokane+Valley,+Spokane,+Washington+99216&ll=47.685268,-117.190304&spn=0.008971,0.022724&z=16
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