You are invited to the Northeast Product Safety Society’s 19th annual membership dinner at the Holiday Inn, Marlborough MA featuring Kent Pengelly, CSA Manager of Special Investigations, will discuss Manufacturing in Emerging Economies - Product Safety Concerns. Mr. Pengelly will provide an overview of the challenges facing the global marketplace today with some examples of product safety concerns that have put consumers and industry at risk. He will also provide some strategies that can minimize our exposure to unsafe products.
If you will be in the area on May 23rd, please consider joining us for dinner and the opportunity to mingle with interesting people involved with product safety. If you are not yet an NPSS member, this is a great opportunity for you to become a member. IEEE PSES members can join NPSS at no additional charge by submitting an NPSS application. Further information about the NPSS 19th annual membership dinner is available at http://www.nepss.org. A Buffet Dinner will include: Steamship Roast Beef, Chicken Picatta, Virginia Ham, Roasted Red Potatoes, Summer Squash, Zucchini and Onions el dente with Chicken Noodle Soup, Vegetable Salad, Melon Fruit, and Rolls. Dessert will include assorted cakes, pies, coffee, and tea. Coffee service will be available at 5:00 PM and the cash bar will open at 6:00 PM. The buffet style dinner will begin at 7:00 PM. Please RSVP by May 21st as reservations are required If you are planning to attend please make your reservations today or as soon as possible so NPSS may make proper accommodations with the hotel for the number of people attending. If you are planning to attend, please make your reservations with Donna Kearney at 978-486-8880 X272 or e-mail at [email protected]. There is no charge to NPSS members whose dues are paid before the dinner on May 23rd and a $35 nominal fee to non-NPSS members. A sign-up table will be available at registration for dues payments by new or existing members. Please provide any special dietary requirements information with your reservation confirmation and every attempt will be made to provide for your needs. A membership application form is available at http://www.nepss.org/membership/npssbroc.txt. Whether you are a paid NPSS member or not, please update your contact profile at http://www.nepss.org/membership/profileupdate.html. Kent Pengelly, Manager Special Investigations with CSA Group, is our keynote speaker. In today’s global marketplace, the push for ISO 9000 quality registrations in the 1990s has been replaced with a push for availability of low-cost consumer, commercial and industrial products. Quality and safety of products can no longer be taken for granted (even when the product bears a certification mark or a recognized manufacturer’s trademark). The advent of counterfeit products and production within the world’s emerging economies has placed the onus on the importer and distributor to perform their own incoming quality control checks as a back-up to the manufacturing facilities. Importers and distributors are now faced with an ever-growing challenge to verify that products meet their expectations with respect to performance and safety and are actually from the companies whose trade name is on the product. Additional information about our keynote speakers and his presentation is available at http://www.nepss.org. The Dinner agenda is 6:00 – 6:50 – Registration & Social (Cash bar) 6:50 – 7:00 – Opening remarks and Welcome message from Steve Brody, NPSS President 7:00 – 8:00 – Dinner 8:00 – 8:10 – Introductions by Steve Brody, NPSS President, Paul Smith, Assistant VP of Meetings, will introduce our keynote speaker. 8:20 – Keynote speaker Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. Directions to the Holiday Inn: The Holiday Inn is located on 265 Lakeview Drive (Rt. 20), Marlborough, MA (508-481-3000). From I-495 North or South, take exit 24A (Rte. 20 East / Marlborough) and take your first left into the Holiday Inn Drive. The hotel will be on the hill. We are looking for a few volunteers to help on the registration table on the 23rd. If you would like to be one of these volunteers, please contact David Wheeler, Dinner Chairman, at [email protected] or myself at [email protected]. Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
