Ah yes - the 'Risk Management Team' - better know as the 'How many people can die and how much money can be lost in law suits before we make a safe product' team.
Dennis Ward Director of Engineering American TCB Certification Resource for the Wireless Industry www.atcb.com 703-847-4700 fax 703-847-6888 direct - 703-880-4841 From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2010 1:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SCV IEEE PSES Meeting, Tuesday, April 27, How to Avoid Being the Next Toyota To me, the obvious solution is to place the accountability for Product Safety in a different department than the department responsible for profit. This weekend had just watched the interviews with the head of Toyota [Toyoda, the fourth]. Am I the only one that caught his weaselness by claiming the problem stemmed from the corruption of the Toyota ideal of "defect-free" by the American culture and their misunderstandings which took place in all our local plants?! I almost started to buy that ploy and thought there should be some sharing of blame until I watched him weep, not because the policeman and his family of four were killed violently after failing to be able to even shut off the car, nor because a lady was propelled off the road and was killed, but as he watched Toyota's sales slide and the profits drop! Absolutely no remorse in that man. Note: From being inundated with all the Toyota ads showing absolutely NO respect for their own customers [actually depicting their customers as maroons and idiots], I had vowed to never buy anything from them. I tell you watching news directly tells far more than watching those little selected 'news bites' homogenized for the masses. Still angry, Robert > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > *IEEEProduct Safety Engineering Society* *Santa Clara Valley Chapter* > > *Meeting Date**:* *Tuesday, April 27, 2010*** > > *6:00 PM – Refreshments*. FREE Pizza and soft drinks at Applied Materials, > Bowers Café; please RSVP to Ken Kapur at [email protected] > > *6:30 – 7:30 p.m: Presentation * > > *Topic**: How to Avoid Being the Next Toyota* > > An exploratory discussion on what companies can do to avoid being the next > Toyota (NOT a root cause analysis). Will discuss the vulnerability of any > high profile company having a major issue such as this. Even when Toyota > fixes this particular issue, there is still something more fundamental > they > need to address to see that this type of thing doesn't happen again. > > *Speaker and Companies**: * > > Ken Kapur (KLA-Tencor), Vice-Chair of Product Safety Engineering Society > will lead the panel discussion. Speakers on the panel will include Eugene > Heil (Lewis Bass Intl.), Mike Silverman (Ops A la Carte LLC) and Fred > Schenkelberg (Ops A La Carte LLC). > > *Meeting Site**:* Applied Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers Ave, Santa > Clara, CA 95054 (map: http://ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pses/directs.html)* * > > Visit our chapter website: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pses/index.html > > Meeting Site: Applied Materials, Bowers Café, 3090 Bowers Ave, Santa > Clara, > CA 95054 (map: http://www.scvemc.org/scv2003meetmap.gif ) > > Chair: Shirley Cui Tarantino, > [email protected]<[email protected]%C2%A0%C2%A0> > > Vice-Chair: Ken Kapur, [email protected] > Treasurer: Gary Eldridge, [email protected] > Secretary: Roberto Pasos, [email protected] > Immediate Past Chair: Steve Baldwin, [email protected] > > Visit our chapter website: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r6/scv/pses/index.html > > Best Regards, > > Roberto Pasos > > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc > discussion list. 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