Auteur: Chad Kymal

R. Dan Reid, the Omnex Director of Consulting, is best known as an author of QS-9000, ISO Technical Specification (TS) 16949, ISO 9001:2000, the first ISO International Workshop Agreement (IWA 1), which applies ISO 9001 to healthcare and its replacement, AIAG’s Business Operating Systems for Healthcare Organizations (HF-2). He also worked on the Chrysler, Ford, and GM Potential Failure Mode and Effects Analysis, Production Part Approval Process, and Advanced Product Quality Planning manuals. While at AIAG, Dan led successful projects for Effective Problem Solving, Cost of Poor Quality, and Supplier Management. While at General Motors, among other assignments, he led the Supplier Development Administration, served on the Chrysler, Ford, GM Supplier Quality Requirements Task Force, which was responsible for QS-9000 and later ISO/TS 16949, and he established a Supplier Quality function at GM Service Parts. He later established a Supplier Quality function at Baxter Bio Science Division’s Los Angeles plant before serving as the Bio Science Divisional Supplier Quality Director. Dan, an ASQ Fellow and ASQ Certified Quality Engineer (CQE), has received numerous awards and is recognized for a number of accomplishments: • The first Delegation Leader of the International Automotive Task Force (IATF) • A member of the Parenteral Drug Association • A member of the American College of Health Care Executives • A published author with Mc Graw Hill, ASQ Quality Press, and others • A member of the ASQ Administrative Committee and Technical Reviewer • On the A2LA Board of Directors