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ASQ Raleigh SIG meeting

SIG meeting — October 9, 2025

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On October 9, 2025, a small group of six people attended ASQ Raleigh’s monthly Special Interest Group (SIG) meeting at Frontier RTP. One person was a first-time attendee and non-member, who has many years of experience in Quality and was interested in joining ASQ.

Alexia Storey led the discussion around Change Control with a number of real-world questions and scenarios. A key question was “how much do we want a robust Change Control process versus people who have the competency to perform a change control effectively?”

A benefit of having a small group is that everyone has more opportunity to contribute to the discussion. The participants brought up their questions and perspectives. Overall, many questions were related to impact assessment, risk management, and roles & responsibilities of the quality manager and various stakeholders, including the Change Control Review Board or Committee.

One of the scenarios was about changes allowed after the initial approval — how much flexibility do we have during implementation without going through another change control? How much feasibility study and impact assessment should be done before approval and how much unspecified change or risk is expected? Some participants shared the practice of using amendments to address additional changes.

Another key point of discussion was defining and evaluating the change effectiveness. This will help us ensure that the implementation does what we intended to accomplish with the change.

The next monthly SIG meeting will be on November 13, 2025.

SIG Meeting – September 2025

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A group of 11 of us met to “talk quality” in an informal atmosphere over beer and wine on Thursday, September 11, at Frontier RTP – Building 800. Frontier’s Thursday OOO event provided drinks.

We had exciting news to share: one of our first-time attendees in July secured new employment through a connection he made with us!

There was no pre-scheduled topic for discussion, but one of our members asked how those attending thought AI would be used in Quality. It was pointed out that there are different types of AI such as:

  • Generative AI: Capable of creating new content such as text, images, music, or code
  • Machine Learning: Allows systems to learn from data and improve without explicit programming
  • Deep Learning: Uses artificial neural networks to learn complex patterns from large datasets.
  • Natural Language Processing: Understands, interprets, and generates human language
  • Computer Vision: Interprets visual information from images and videos
  • Exper Systems: Emulates decision-making

We expect our companies to experiment with and utilize all of these capabilities. We wonder about supervision and control, though. For example, suppose a vision system is continually updating its defect detection capability. How can we ensure process control and prevent unintended changes that might allow more or different types of defects to slip through or introduce new false failures?

Tim Whetten

ASQ Raleigh Special Interest Group Meeting — October 9, 2025

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The SIG event is participant-driven — we will have open discussion around topics related to the quality profession. We may have a theme but no formal speakers or agenda. Everyone is encouraged to participate in the discussion. So bring your questions and ideas to share with other participants.

Theme of the month: Change Control

This event is free and open to anyone who is interested in the quality profession. No ASQ membership is required. ASQ members will receive RU credits for participation.

We will meet at Frontier RTP (first floor) at 4:30pm or whenever you can join us. It will be during Frontier RTP’s weekly Out of Office event. It’s a great opportunity to connect with people in the triangle community. More information will be provided to the registered attendees before the event.

Register here.