Resources

As a business professional, you understand that quality is the route to competitiveness and profitability. Whether you’d like to enhance your professional skills or help your organization strengthen its leadership position, ASQ connects you with the resources you need.

Since 1946, ASQ has been a leader in identifying, communicating, and promoting the use of quality concepts, principles, and technologies. ASQ is your source for information on topics ranging from total quality management and statistical process control to benchmarking and leadership. ASQ makes it easy for you to obtain the latest information in a variety of areas–information you and your organization need to stay competitive. And ASQ provides opportunities for you to meet and learn from experts working in your field.

ASQ, the world’s largest quality network, is your connection to the latest publications, conferences, and training related to quality improvement.

Publications

All members receive a subscription to ASQ’s monthly magazine, Quality Progress. Quality Progress keeps you continually updated with timely information on quality-related news and technology. You’ll learn how strategies are put into place and how problems are resolved. Practical applications of quality techniques will help you with your improvement efforts. Popular features include an annual salary survey, software directory, and special issues on quality in health care, small business, and education.

Through ASQ’s Quality Press, the world’s largest publisher of books about quality, you’re sure to find the tools you need to do your job. Any item you see in the Quality Press catalog is of the highest quality, as ASQ carefully screens its materials and subjects potential publications to a rigorous peer-review process. ASQ does this to ensure your satisfaction. And all ASQ members receive discounts on ASQ-published books, videotapes, audiotapes, software, briefings, and standards.

Another option you’ll have as a member is to subscribe to one or more of ASQ’s respected quarterly journals. Learn about the practical application of quality management or quality technology through the following:
Quality Management Journal: Offers practical applications of quality research in the broad field of management.
Quality Engineering: Geared specifically toward engineers, this journal offers an in-depth examination of quality technology.
Journal of Quality Technology: This journal covers the Technical aspects of quality control, reliability, and related disciplines.
Technometrics: Statistics for the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences is the focus of this journal.

Training and Development

Training offered by ASQ is a proven value. ASQ’s courses and instructors earn high satisfaction ratings, and almost all individuals who attend ASQ courses say they would recommend them to their colleagues. As a member, you receive special rates on a full range of instruction led by industry and academic experts and instruction that will help you and your organization get ahead.

Conferences

One of the best ways to connect with industry experts is to attend the conferences ASQ offers throughout the year. Hear about the latest research and participate in interactive sessions on topics such as customer satisfaction, ISO 9000, small-business applications, service quality, and more. At the Annual Quality Congress, held every May, you can join nearly 5,000 people from more than 50 countries to examine the latest ideas, applications, and technology in quality.

Make an Investment in Your Future

When you join ASQ you become part of a community. ASQ Membership introduces you to others who share a common bond: a passion to make perfection possible. United by ASQ Membership they invent change – constantly evolving – becoming smarter, faster, better. The Regular member category continues the tradition of ASQ membership while adding flexibility and value to the member experience. You can join ASQ today! Join online at www.asq.org or call 800.248.1946 (USA, Canada, and Mexico) or 414.272.8575 and a customer service representative can help you activate your membership.