Society
of Manufacturing Engineers Chapter 69 Minutes of the Executive Board Meeting February 8, 2006
Technical
Presentation:
The presenter for the
evening was Mark Stuligross of Dynacast.
His presentation was Designing for Die-Casting and Studies in Cost Reduction. A very informative presentation showing many of the parts that can
be made with Die-Casting and the speed that these machines can be run at.
Awards chairman, Viktor Astakhov, presented a
certificate of appreciation from Chapter 69 to Mark. Dynacast
supplied a wonderful dinner following the technical presentation.
Chairman, Gary
Shepperd began the meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Meeting
Attendees:
Gary Shepperd-Chairman, John Dinovski-Chair Elect, CMfgE, Jack Wagner-Treasurer, CMfgE, Alan Wolfe-Secretary, Cathy DeNardo-Membership Chair, Scott Manning-Programs Chair, CMfgT, Jack Day-CEM, CMfgE, Larie Smith -Certification Chair, CMfgE, Doug Ruffley – Communications Chair, Viktor Astakhov - Awards Chair, Paul Drallos, Robert Petrach, CMfgE, Rob Petrach, OU Student, Jennifer Warstler-Student Relations Coordinator, Howard Li, Michael Lindemann, Suresh Rama-CEM, CMfgE, Werner Speidel, CMfgE, PMP
Chapter
Business
Secretary's
Report
A motion made by
Cathy DeNardo and seconded by Jack Wagner accepted
January minutes.
Treasurer's
Report
Jack Wagner gave the report and noted that we are in good
financial shape. Jack submitted the Financial, CPAG, reports to headquarters
for 2005. Bob Petrach and Gary Shepperd have been in
contact with SME HQ about the new funding requirements.
Nominations
Committee:
No report.
Membership
Committee:
Cathy DeNardo reported that she is working on the next telethon. Cathy also reminded everyone to sign in and that name badges were available for $8.
Programs
Report:
Scott Manning gave report. Scott is working on a tour of Kriewalt Industries, which is at 32 Mile and Van Dyke in
Romeo.
"March 9 presentation will
be at OCC by Bonal Technologies in
April and May programs are open.
Wine Tasting - Jennifer Warstler
is looking for a place in
A date of Saturday April 22 has been set.
Certification
Report:
Larie Smith reported that seven people are interested in the certification exams and the emailing of the brochures was a success. He also asked for help with the review sessions.
Communications
Report:
Doug Ruffley is in talks with SME about newspaper contacts and
getting the SME name out more.
Bulletin
Report:
Doug Ruffley gave report. He is looking into a new format for the newsletter and suggested that we do away with the hard copy of the newsletter.
Doug said we have email names of 80% of our members and thinks we may want to have it on our website only. This would save a considerable amount of money.
Student
Chapter Report(s):
Jennifer Warstler gave report and said Elaine is working on getting
permission slips to students for our tours. Also they are working on getting
the SME name out to students.
Old Business:
Bob Petrach and Gary Shepperd have been working together on submitting the
funding request forms to Natalie at SME. They discovered that the forms could
not be submitted more then 90 days in advance and then takes 30 days to be
approved. They were hoping that the funding request could be done once for the
full year.
Also discussed was
that 50% of the Chapter websites had advertising.
New Business:
Bob Petrach talked
about the SME News being hard to find on the SME website. And
was going to talk with SME to see if the SME News could be in a pdf format for easier browsing.
Jack Day mentioned
that we need to find volunteers for the Best Practice Chair and the
TCN
Coordinator position.
Jack also mentioned
that Larie Smith could use some help with
Certification.
The meeting was
adjourned at 8:45pm by a motion from Bob Petrach and seconded by Al Wolfe.
Respectfully submitted,
Alan Wolfe