Your Questions Answered
Here are the most commonly asked questions by visitors to the ASQ website. Additional questions are encouraged: help@asq.org.
Quality and Your Career
How can quality contribute to my professional success?
What does ASQ know about downsizing?
ASQ Membership
What can the ASQ Library do for me?
Quality Tools and Definitions, including Statistics
What is a "house of quality"? How do I build one?
What’s the difference between variable data and attribute data?
FMEA: What new resources does ASQ have about FMEA?
What is the Kano model of customer satisfaction?
What do quality professionals mean when they discuss "a visual workplace" and "visual controls"?
How do organizations gain, measure, and retain customer satisfaction and loyalty?
Standards (ISO 9001 and others)
What resources does ASQ have on the integration of different quality-management standards?
Is there a standard that governs rail transportation in Europe?
When does the new version of ISO 9001 come out, and what do I have to do to get ready?
Topic- or Industry-Specific Resources
I’m looking for literature that deals with design review. What does ASQ have?
What resources does ASQ offer on using quality tools and processes in education?
What is the "Red Bead Experiment," and where can I learn more about it?
What is the Sarbanes-Oxley law, and what resources does ASQ have about it?
What resources does ASQ offer on dealing with supplier performance and/or evaluation?
Website Navigation
What are the "Areas of Use" in the left-hand column of ASQ's Web site?
ASQ History
When did the American Society for Quality Control become the American Society for Quality?






