ASQ Forums and Divisions

Audit: Promotes broader application and use of quality auditing principles for effective business management purposes.

Automotive: Members are from the automotive, heavy-truck, off-highway, agricultural, industrial, and construction equipment industries – including supporting suppliers.

Aviation, Space & Defense: Members are from the manufacturing, service and government sectors of the aviation, defense and space industries.

Biomedical: Members are from engineering, quality, and regulatory affairs affiliated with the design, manufacture and support of medical devices, FDA regulations and international standards.

Chemical and Process Industries: Members work in industries such as pharmaceuticals, chemicals, glass, and petroleum. Technical interest groups serve members in specific industries.

Customer-Supplier: This group explores, expands, and communicates the concepts and practices that lead to effective supplier performance and increased customer satisfaction.

Design and Construction: Members include architects, engineers, designers, construction managers, contractors, safety engineers, facility managers and other professionals.

Education: Educators, administrators, and business professionals promote the use of quality principles and technologies in education.

Electronics and Communications: Members are quality and reliability professionals concerned with all types and levels of electrical, electronic, and communication products.

Energy and Environmental: Members strive to address public concerns for satisfying energy needs while ensuring environmental health and welfare for future generations.

Food, Drug, and Cosmetic: Members are in quality control and assurance, regulatory and compliance, engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales for food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

Government: Members work in local, state, and federal government agencies, and advocate the use of quality principles and tools to transform the public sector.

Healthcare: This group advances the knowledge of healthcare quality, and includes doctors, nurses, medical technologists, hospital administrators, hospital staff, auditors, and engineers.

Human Development and Leadership: Provides the skills, knowledge, tools, and information needed to excel as individuals, leaders, teachers, trainers, coaches and mentors.

Inspection: Members include those responsible for establishing and developing inspection and test methodologies, and the quality professionals who perform inspections and tests.

Lean Enterprise: Promotes lean principles and practices, including cost reduction, cycle time reduction, waste minimization and value-adding strategies.

Measurement Quality: Members apply the principles of quality and statistics to measurement-related issues.

Product Safety & Liability Prevention: Promotes and understanding of product liability prevention and how to incorporate it into quality systems and efforts.

Quality Management: Members represent all levels of management including executives, managers, team and project leaders, supervisors and quality professionals aspiring to those positions.

Reliability: Provides a forum for networking among members on reliability engineering, management and related topics.

Service Quality: Provides the knowledge to deploy and integrate quality systems, principles, and techniques in service-oriented functions.

Six Sigma: Offers informal and practical opportunities for Six Sigma professionals at any experience level to share knowledge and solutions.

Software: Members include software quality professionals, software engineers and others interested in applying quality principles to software development.

Statistics: Members include quality managers, engineers, statisticians, and educators who apply, research, develop, and promote statistical methods.

Team and Workplace Excellence: Provides learning and recognition opportunities to help people, teams, and organizations achieve performance excellence.