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The International Organization of Standards (ISO) is planning to update the requirements for current Quality Management Systems standards. Come see a sneak preview of these scheduled changes for 2015 and what it will mean to your company as reflected by a panel of manufacturing companies including Raytheon.

• The scheduled release date is intended to be in late 2015. There will be significant structural changes, but many of the same requirements exist and have simply been reorganized.

• The reasoning behind this restructure is to align all future ISO management system standards. Organizations that have multiple management systems will find it much easier to align and integrate the requirements for varied standards such as ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 27001, etc.

Presenters:
Jim Saropoulos, Principal, ExoLytic, Inc.
Jim Saropoulos is a proven, result driven program and technical professional with 30 years operations and quality experience in multi-industry service, manufacturing with high technology, aerospace, telecommunications firms and ISO registration bodies.  His background as trainer, consultant and implementer includes ISO 9001, AS 9100, ISO 27001, ISO 18001, ISO 14001, ISO 13485, TS 16949 quality system design and implementation.  His specialty areas include strategic quality planning, risk management, supply chain management, international standards and Lean Manufacturing programs.

Ted Shpak, Director of Supplier Quality Management, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

Lloyd K. Barss, Manager, Product Engineering/ QMS Management Representative, Pine Tree Castings, Division of Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc.
Lloyd Barss is the Manager of Product Engineering / QMS Management Representative of the Pine Tree Castings division of Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc. He has 30 years of experience in the investment casting field, having worked for three prominent foundries in New Hampshire, producing ferrous and non-ferrous products.
Lloyd has worked with all revisions of ISO 9000/90014 standard as well as QS900 and TS16949 throughout his career. He led the implementation and certification effort to ISO 9001:2008 standard at Pine Tree Castings, utilizing the NH MEP ISO Collaborative program.

Philip M. Papoojian, President, Mereco Technologies Group
Philip M. Papoojian has been the President & COO of Mereco Technologies Group Companies since 1997. Mereco is a manufacturer of specialty formulated epoxy, urethane, silicone and other resins used in the electronics, solar cell, LED, battery, fiber optic, fuel cell, and and BIPV/OPIV industries.  He has been in manufacturing for all of his 35 year career in a variety of technical and executive positions in the chemical, plastics and rubber businesses. Philip has an MBA with a finance concentration from Anna Maria College, an MS in Plastics Engineering from University of Massachusetts Lowell, and a BS in Chemistry from Fitchburg State College. He has also completed the Executive Marketing Program, in residence at the University of Michigan. Phil is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors of SBANE.

About our Moderator:
Michael Prior, Director of Business Development / Next Generation Programs, Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership (Mass MEP)
Mike Prior has 40 years of manufacturing and consulting experience having held Operational and Quality Management positions at Malden Mills in Lawrence, MA as well as Quaker Fabric Corporation and Main St. Textiles in Fall River, MA.  In addition to having experience in the areas of Quality and Operations Management, Mike has consulted in the areas of Information Systems selection and deployment and global supply chain logistics.  He is a member of the American Society for Quality (ASQ), a Lean Top Gun and Lean Champion for the Association for Manufacturing Excellence and more recently, has been involved with Supply Chain Management initiatives with the U.S. Departments of Defense and Transportation.  He is on the Advisory Boards for the National Council of Advanced Manufacturing (NACFAM) and the Southern New England Entrepreneurs Forum (SNEEF).  He serves on the board and chairs the Advanced Manufacturing Committee for the Smaller Business Association of New England (SBANE), and also serves on the Access To Capital and Technology & Innovation Committees for the Governor’s Advanced Manufacturing Collaborative.
Mike is a Business Management graduate of the University of Maine and is currently the Director of Business Development for the Massachusetts Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MassMEP).  Responsibilities include new business development, partnership development and relations and management of the organizations’ Next Generation Manufacturing Programs.  MassMEP is a training and organizational development company, whose mission is to provide growth related systems and solutions to assist small and medium sized manufacturers transform for growth.

Cost: $25 SBANE Members / $40 Non-Members

To register please click here or email katie@sbane.org

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