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March 11-13, 2008: ECCC Spring Meeting Minutes
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March 17, 2008
Minutes of the ECCC Meeting-March 13, 2008 Baltimore-Historical Electronics Museum
Chairman, Lloyd Condra called the meeting to order and self introductions were made by all in attendance. Immediately thereafter the Chairman noted the recent passing of one of our former members, Dr. Bob Thomas of Rome, NY and called for a moment of silence in memory of Bob.
Mr. Condra then recognized two attendees…Mr. Ed Mikoski, Vice President of TIA and returning ECCC board member for Ed’s previous exemplary service to ECCC and specifically for ushering through the Standards and Specifications Process of two important documents---GEIA 4899 and EIA/ECCC 954, both of which were moved into the IEC as international standards or specifications. A plaque was presented to Ed on behalf of the ECCC. Mr. Condra then presented Mr. Chris Yau, Senior Manager, Global Products and Services Development, SGS Hong Kong Ltd, with a pin acknowledging SGS US Testing Company, the leading US-NAI Sponsored CBs recent achievement of 300 IECQ HSPM QC 080000 certifications worldwide.
The antitrust guidelines where then presented by Mr. Condra, Chairman and Mr. Salot, President before moving on to the meeting agenda.
Mr. Condra then noted the minutes of the last meeting in Phoenix and called for any comments. Being none the minutes were accepted by consensus.
Mr. Chapman, Treasurer, ECCC next reported on the financial status of ECCC outlining the 2007 completed financial results. Of note was the notable increase in income-attributed to the growth of the IECQ HSPM program worldwide. Recognizing much of this revenue and the certificate fee income derived from the program is “pass thru” monies Mr. Chapman acknowledged the importance this signifies to the IECQ in total. Year end data reflects approximately $289,000 in ‘deferred’ revenue in the ECCC accounts—these funds being years 2 and 3 of the certificate fees collected in the first year of the client’s certification. Mr. Chapman made a motion that the 2007 report be accepted as stated and it was by unanimous consent.
Mr. Chapman next addressed the 2008 budget noting three specific increases in expenses identified since approval of the budget in late 2007. Each of these items was discussed and a motion to accept the changes was made by Mr. Chapman. The motion was accepted by all.
Mr. Chapman then reviewed briefly the 2009 IECQ budget made necessary by the IECQ audit of the 2006 books and the specific recommendation that the entire IEC budget comprised of all 3 schemes-IECEE, IECEX, and IECQ-must have their budgets combined and to the IEC CAB prior to the normal IECQ Management Committee meetings in early April 2007. This necessitated an early approval and the ECCC voted to approve the 2009 IECQ budget as proposed. This is covered in detail in Mr. Chapman’s presentation. (slides 11-15 cover the data upon which he reported.)
Mr. Salot, ECCC President, then provided the President’s report on ECCC activities over the past 6 months. He first covered the excellent work and the charts emanating from this work by Chuck Packard in developing models for the various elements of income that ECCC receives: IECQ HSPM certificate fees, ECMP fees, Traditional MA, ITL, and SC fees, etc. These models are extremely helpful to the secretary-treasurer in preparing our forecasts and have become equally helpful in dealing with the IECQ forecasts as well. Salot’s slide 19 covers the additional items upon which he reported.
Actions: Specific members were asked to determine if they might provide speakers for the October 2008 Taitronics Trade show in Taipei, Taiwan. Advise Mr. Salot ASAP!
Stan will advise all sponsored CBs of the 2008 planned surveillance visits.
Mr. Chapman will submit – contingent on Mr. Condra receiving approval from his management – Mr. Lloyd Condra’s name in nomination for IECQ Chairman following Mr. Dave Smith’s completion of his current 3 year term.
Following the Avionics UAG update on ECMP Training needs two New Work Item Requests-NWI-were prepared and Mr. Chapman will submit to IECQ for discussion in the upcoming IECQ MC meetings. Done-3-13-2008.
Ms. Christina Clark-ECCC Office Administrator covered the recent updating and increased usefulness of the ECCC Website. Document control was emphasized as the ‘resident spot’ for the many documents all of us need access to.
Action: All members are to request from Ms. Clark their access passwords for use of the data on the website. Slides 20-34 cover the material Ms. Clark presented on the website update.
Mr. Harvey Berman, Membership Chairman, reported on the status of our membership with a specific recommendation to grant the sponsored CBs a voting slot on the ECCC. This was unanimously agreed by consensus and Mr. Chris Morrell—current chairman—of the CBs will serve as the first such member in the class of 2008----nominated to be the class of 2011. This class will be voted in at our fall meeting.
Slide 35 represents our ECCC membership by category and class year.
Mr. Condra next noted that the various items included in the officers update were being covered adequately at the specific noted agenda items and times and as such had no additional comments to add.
Mr. Dick Conrad, Chairman, Avionics Users Advisory Group provided the Avionics User Advisory Group report to the board noting specific discussion over the previous 2 days on the ECMP program. A roadmap outlining the “Rollout for ECMP” was presented and specific suggestions for IECQ New Work Item Requests were made.
Actions: NWI requests were prepared and submitted to the IECQ Secretary to be discussed in the upcoming MC meetings in April. Done March 13, 2008
Slides 38-45 cover the material Mr. Conrad presented.
Mr. Wynn Bowman, Chairman, Consumer Products User Advisory Group reported on the Consumer User Advisory Group meeting noting the need to bring awareness of the IECQ HSPM imitative to the domestic US community. A brainstorming session noted several avenues to potentially increase awareness at the grass roots level. Slide 56 in Mr. Bowman’s presentation highlights many of these ideas. The CP-UAG made a specific request for a $5000 advance of funds from ECCC to underwrite efforts to create and publish a book along the lines of “Everything You Want to Know about QC 080000” intended to be marketed in the US and other regions of the world. It is also expected to have a significant sales opportunity throughout the Asia Pacific region. The $5000 would be paid back from sale of the book and revenue would also be forthcoming to the ECCC beyond the initial ‘seed money’ being paid back. This was approved by the board with funds to be allocated from promotion. It was also agreed that the intellectual property of the book will belong to the ECCC.
Slides 46-57 cover the CUAG presentation.
Mr. Packard and Mr. Berman covered the latest status of the US National Committee. The ECCC/IECQ update Mr. Salot provided at the last meeting answered many of the lingering questions the USNC has had regarding the ECCC progress on IECQ HSPM and other efforts. ECCC has now formally joined ANSI and has intentions to populate some specific Technical Committees in the future. Mr. Ralph Justus and Mr. Ed Mikoski are both voting members of the USNC, and these overall attempts to take an active part in the USNC activities where practical are intended to better facilitate positive USNC support for the ECCC.
Mr. Joe Lee, Executive Secretary, CTECCC provided a report on the actions of the Technical Review Committee since our fall meeting. Significant progress has been made; some issues which have arisen have been addressed; Dr. Andy Perry, Mr. Ed Mikoski, Mr. Indra Desai and Mr. Joe Lee are to be congratulated on the efficiency with which the TRC is operating.
Slides 60-66 represent the TRC report.
Mr. Joe Lee then provided an update on the Asia Pacific CB Advisory Group meeting held on March 4 at TEEMA.
Slides 68-81 cover the material Mr. Joe Lee presented on this meeting.
Mr. Chris Morrell, ECCC Sponsored CB Chairman reported on the US CB Advisory Group meeting held March 12, 2008. Acknowledgement of the excellent coordination between the Technical Review Committee and Ms. Christina Clark in accomplishing timely review of assessment reports, issuing of certificates and posting on the IECQ website was noted. The request for a ‘CB representative to be admitted to the ECCC board’ having been met earlier in the day by granting the CB chairman a voting slot on the board was acknowledged.
Slides 82-85 are the CBs report.
Mr. Jack Isken, Rules Chairman noted that there were no Bylaws changes required and there was no discussion of our bylaws.
Mr. Salot and Mr. Joe Lee gave the board an extensive update and discussion of the Taitronics Trade Show in Taipei from October 7-10, 2008. Following the 2007 show ECCC suggested a major coordinated effort to TEEMA for the 2008 show and that was accepted. ECCC is responsible for securing major speakers from the US and several potential high-profile speakers have been invited. Mr. Salot is coordinating this and GE, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Honeywell and other companies whose representatives are on ECCC are some of the companies requested to consider furnishing speakers for this important venue. This trade show will be the first held in the new Taipei convention center and will be a major event for the entire Southeast Asia region.
The IECQ Management Committee and related meetings in April in France require specific ECCC representatives. As such Mr. Condra, Mr. Salot, and Mr. Chapman will be in attendance and 2 additional delegates will also be attending. Mr. Dick Conrad, Mr. Vance Anderson, Mr. Bill Scofield, and Mr. Dave Humphrey were each asked to check into their availability and 2 of these will be selected in the next few days.
Note was made of the next SBGI Corp Training class on IECQ HSPM to be held in Reno, Nevada on May 28-30, 2008.
The next meeting of the ECCC will be held on September 9-11, 2008 somewhere in the western United States. The venue will be determined in the next few weeks and notice to all will be provided.
Respectfully submitted,
Mr. Joe V. Chapman, Secretary |
