High reward by ASQ for Jeroen de Mast, IBIS UvA!
Jeroen de Mast, principal advisor IBIS University of Amsterdam and trainer of the Six Sigma trainings of the Dommel Valley platform will get in may 09 the Feigenbaum Medal during the world congres of the ASQ (American Society for Quality).
The Feigenbaum Medal is given to a young quality professional who has displayed outstanding characteristics of leadership, professionalism, and potential in the field of quality through achievement of significant benefit to mankind.
The official citation is: For outstanding contributions and leadership in quality engineering; for excellence in research, methodology, mentoring, and education in sound qualitative as well as quantitative data-driven methodologies; and for developing innovative techniques for nontraditional applications for measurement systems, control charts, and exploratory data-analysis.
We like to give congratulations to Jeroen for this fantastic achievement!
SW Reliability
Software Reliability is a high-ranking issue when it comes to Cost of Non-Quality in many companies. This was clear from the high attendance at a seminar on the subject held on 20 March 2008. A total of 35 interested parties represented companies such as ASML, DAF Trucks, NXP, Philips and SRON.
Various industrial companies (from the fields of consumer electronics, the semiconductor industry and the medical world) demonstrated how they approach software reliability and explained which problems they have to deal with. In this context, the connection to DfSS was also explained.
The scientific world Verum and the Embedded Software Institute indicated in which directions solutions to such problems lie and, using ASML stage modelling, demonstrated which methods are already available for making radical improvements to software quality.
It has been shown that a 10-fold improvement in software reliability can be achieved!
