PLACE: 

SPEAKER:
Fred Hulting
Pillsbury Co.
 

TITLE:
Just What Does an Industrial Statistician Do, Anyway?

ABSTRACT:

A number of articles in recent years have discussed the state of industrial statistics, from David Banks' 1994 Statistical Science paper, to the 1998 Technometrics review by Hahn and Hoerl. In this talk I give an account of my own experience as a Ph.D. statistician working in the automotive, materials, and consumer products industries. The first half of my talk will paint a broad picture of the many consulting projects and research problems I have encountered. The second half of the talk will provide detail on two particular activities: (1) research on using the "manufactured part model" to extract meaningful geometric information from the coordinate measurements of structural automotive parts [see Technometrics 39:3-20 and references therein], and (2) the development of webbed computing tools to deploy modern statistical methods throughout a global company. A key theme of this talk is that collaboration across disciplines is necessary for an industry project to be successful.

COFFEE: 3:45 p.m., 104 Snedecor Hall