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September 23, 2006: Pictures taken at the conference in Wroclaw by Jeroen de Mast.

September 13, 2006: Here's an updated list of abstracts for the ENBIS-6 Conference.

September 4, 2006: The Executive Committee and some long term members have worked out a revision of the statutes and the by-laws of ENBIS. This had become necessary since ENBIS has developed well in the past six years introducing new tasks to the network and making amendsment like the inclusion of the past-president into the executive committee necessay. Please read a summary or go directly to the voting page and read the full texts there.

August 30, 2006: Dr. Blanton Godfrey, past CEO and chairman of the Juran Institute, and founding editor of Six Sigma Forum Magazine, will give a presentation during the Juran Session at the Wroclaw Conference. Other links for this conference:
- Conference page
- keynote speakers
- Pre- and post conference courses (Statistical consulting, Statistics for innovation, Optimal design)
- Registration
- Wroclaw information, including city map and travel.
- Programme overview and detailed programme.

August 20, 2006: The latest issue of ENBIS News (3/2006) is now available here.

August 16, 2006: On the Sunday before ENBIS6 a general strategic discussion will take place in Wroclaw. For more details have a look at our members area.

June 26, 2006: The nomination committee chaired by Shirley Coleman has made its nominations and now members are requested to name additional candidates until July 11. Please read the full text in the Members-only area.

June 17, 2006: The Quality Improvement Special Interest Group of ENBIS has set up the Six Sigma Practitioners' Circle as part of the ENBIS Academy. The ENBIS Academy has co-ordinated workshops on a wide range of subjects held before and after ENBIS conferences.
The Six Sigma Practitioners' Circle is particularly interested in the mechanism for giving ENBIS approval to Six Sigma training courses and in the future award of "Six Sigma Green/Black Belt certification".
Membership is open to all ENBIS members who are welcome to join the Circle. To do so please Shirley Coleman.

May 3, 2006: ENBIS members Jeroen de Mast and Albert Trip have received the 2005 ASQ Brumbaugh Award for their paper Gauge R and R Studies for Destructive Measurements (Journal of Quality Technology 37(1), 40-49).

April 25, 2006: ENBIS News is back as a quarterly newsletter which complements the ENBIS Magazine.

April 25, 2006: The Belgian branch of ENBIS organizes a workshop on the Design and Analysis of Experiments on June 2nd. Speakers include Bradley Jones (SAS/JMP), Eric Schoen (TNO/Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), Peter Goos (Universiteit Antwerpen) and Bernadette Govaerts (Université Catholique de Louvain). The workshop will be held in Antwerp. More information will soon be posted at http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/B-ENBIS/.

April 24, 2006: Before and after the ENBIS-6 conference in Wroclaw there will be some ENBIS workshops:
- Statistical consulting, by Soren and Sue Ellen Bisgaard. Sunday (17 September) afternoon and Monday morning.
- Statistics for innovation and the design process, by Shirley Coleman. Monday (18 September) morning.
- Optimal design of experiments, by Peter Goos. Thursday (21 September).
More info:
- Course contents, fees and registration: ENBIS-6 Courses.
- Programme for September 17-21 (conference and pre- and postconference workshops).

April 6, 2006: Highlights of the ENBIS-6 Conference in Wroclaw:
- Roger Hoerl's keynote address "Six Sigma: What's beyond the hype"
- Age Smilde's keynote address "Modern Process Chemometrics"
- Addresses by award winners: Gerry Hahn, Peter Goos, and Gerhard Rappitsch
- Session devoted to contributions by Joseph Juran, and featuring Blan Godfrey.
- QREI invited session.
 More information:
- Conference page
- Provisional programme
- Abstract submission
- Registration
- Wroclaw information, including city map and travel.

March 17,2006: ENBIS President Fabrizio Ruggeri summarizes the latest developments in his current letter, please read his full letter. Please note especially the reminder about the Spring Workshop on Datamining in which you can still take part! If interested in a hands-on workshop go to the registration.

January 3, 2006: The Swedish branch of ENBIS and the Technical University of Denmark are organising a three days course on "Life length and reliability - needed for better designs" please read the full details here.

January 2, 2006: Information about the Sixth Annual ENBIS Conference in Wroclaw (ENBIS-6 Conference):
- Call for Papers
- Conference page

December 23, 2005: On April 5th -7th 2006 the first ENBIS Spring Meeting will be held on Data Mining issues. More information on the event, which will take place in Gengenbach (Germany), can be found at http://www.enbis.org/OCS-Modified/index.php?cf=3

October 23, 2005: Please read Ron Kenett's request for nominations for our three Awards:

  • George Box Medal for outstanding contributions to industrial statistics.
  • Young Statistician Award.
  • Best Manager Award.
October 20, 2005: ENBIS is endorsing the Seventh International Conference on Teaching Statistics (ICOTS 7) for more information please visit the homepage.

October 08, 2005: Our new President Fabrizio Ruggeri has formulated his plans and thoughts for the coming year in a letter to us all. Please click here and read the extensive version.

October 07, 2005: The Sixth Annual ENBIS Conference will be held 18—20 September, 2006, in Wroclaw, Poland. The conference will be in the Mercure hotel, located 200m. from the historical Market Square. Click for a preview.

September 20, 2005: As a result of the elections, there is a new board, which will be chaired by our new president Fabrizio Ruggeri.

September 19, 2005: There is a list of names and addresses of young statisticians who were present during the young statisticians meeting in Newcastle.

September 7, 2005: Last minute news for the Newcastle Conference:
- There is a provisional list of participants.
- The final programme is available. There is also an easy-to-print version: programme.pdf.
- It may be convenient to bring a hardcopy of the sessions and abstracts.

July 27, 2005: delegates attending the Newcastle conference should book their hotel as soon as possible. Newcastle is filling up fast because of the Great North Run on the 18th September.

July 20, 2005: All delegates of the ENBIS-5 Conference in Newcastle are invited to a free wine reception.

July 20, 2005: ENBIS is delighted that business and industry have been found willing again to sponsor our conference. The ENBIS-5 conference in Newcastle is sponsored by Palisade, Minitab, Statsoft, Stat-Ease, Inc., and Wiley.

July 11, 2005: the nomination committee (chaired by Poul Thyregod) has nominated candidates for the 2005 board elections. Election call will be on August 12.

June 15, 2005: Early bird registration. In order to get a €50 discount on the conference fee, make sure that you register and pay the conference fee before 20 June.

June 10, 2005: contributions for the ENBIS-5 conference have been assigned to sessions. See:
- Updated programme
- Sessions and abstracts

June 7, 2005: ENBIS organizes a number of workshops before, during and after the conference in Newcastle:

June 2, 2005: we received 107 abstracts for the Newcastle Conference. Abstracts are available on-line.

May 25, 2005: Updated information on the Newcastle conference:
- Updated programme
- Keynote address by Doug Montgomery
- Overview of pre- and postconference workshops
- Overview of workshops during the conference

May 1, 2005: Most problems caused by the server being hacked into have been solved. Registration and abstract submission procedures are running again.

April 29, 2005: ENBIS server hacked, but problems now solved. As you may have experienced, there have been major problems with the website of ENBIS. In the previous weeks, hackers have targeted the server that ran the ENBIS website, and caused a lot of trouble.
Current situation: we think we have found a permanent solution to the problems. The site you are looking at now, runs on a new server. At the moment we are working hard to get all functionalities operational again.
Registration and abstract submission for the conference: because of the many technical problems of the previous weeks, the deadline of 30 April for abstract submission will not be adhered to rigidly. Please make sure that you submit your abstract before May 31st, though.
How about safety of credit card payments: payments by credit card are not handled by the server that runs the ENBIS website. In fact, the whole procedure is handled by a specialized firm on a secure server. Payments to ENBIS using the usual credit card procedure are safe.
If you need assistance: if you run into problems or have queries concerning these problems, please contact Jeroen de Mast.

April 14, 2005: The ENBIS Committee for awards is glad to announce the recipients of the 2005 awards for Young Statistician and Best Manager. The winners are:
Young Statistician Award: Jeroen de Mast (IBIS UvA) and Jesus Palomo (SAMSI and Duke University, USA; formerly at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain).
Best Manager Award: Jaap van den Heuvel (Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, the Netherlands).

April 14, 2005: there has been a problem with the membership application procedure. If you have recently submitted a membership application and did not receive a reaction, please contact the webmaster.

March 11, 2005: ENBIS organizes a number of workshops before and after the Newcastle Conference. Topics include data mining, operational risk management, simulation of clinical trials, and statistical consulting skills. The workshops are held at 13, 14, and 17 September, 2005 (that is, immediately before and after the conference). For more information and registration: pre- and postconference workshops.

March 8, 2005: The provisional programme for the Fifth Annual Conference is available.
Accommodation has been booked for delegates at several hotels within easy reach of the conference venues. All accommodation can be booked on-line. All accommodation must be booked by Thursday 16th August 2005. Please note that the Great North Run takes place in NewcastleGateshead the weekend after the conference and hotels will therefore be extremely busy. You are therefore advised to make your booking well in advance.
More info on the Newcastle conference ...

March 8, 2005: The 2005 George Box Medal Committee (Fabrizio Ruggeri [Chair], Shirley Coleman, Ron Kenett, Maria Ramalhoto and Poul Thyregod) announce that Sir David Cox is the recipient of the 2005 George Box Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Industrial Statistics. Sir David Cox will receive the award on Friday, September 16, 2005, at the annual ENBIS meeting in Newcastle, UK.

February 25, 2005: The server running the ENBIS website has crashed, and for this reason, parts of the website have been disfunctional for a number of days. Most problems have been solved now, and all functionalities are functioning again.

January 9, 2005: Now available on-line:
- Call for papers for the Fifth Annual ENBIS meeting in Newcastle.
- Registration for the Fifth Annual ENBIS meeting in Newcastle.
- Submission of abstracts for the Newcastle conference.

January 6, 2005: bENBIS and BCS jointly organise a workshop on Multi-Way Analysis, 28 February 2005, in Leuven (Belgium). The main speaker will be Rasmus Bro, professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and one of the world's experts in Multi-way Analysis. More information available.

January 5, 2005: Read the evaluation of the Copenhagen conference.

December 24, 2004: read Fabrizio Ruggeri's request for nominations for the ENBIS awards:
- Box Medal for outstanding contributions to industrial statistics
- Young Statisticians Award
- Best Manager Award

November 25, 2004: minutes of the September meeting of the working group on Statistics in Pharma are availabe on-line.

November 5, 2004: The ASQ Statistics Division has awarded former president of ENBIS Tony Greenfield the 2004 William G. Hunter Award. Read Tony's acceptance speech.

October 27, 2004: picture of 2004 Box Award recipient Søren Bisgaard.

October 1, 2004: based on the results of the 2004 Board Elections a new executive committee and council were established; see Board.

October 1, 2004: available info about the Copenhagen Conference:
- The presentation slides or papers of the keynote addresses are online.
- The list of participants.
- Awarded presentations: see previous announcement.
- Conference page.

October 1, 2004: At the Copenhagen Conference prizes for best presentations were sponsored by the two Journals Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (ASMB) and Quality and Reliability Engineering International (QREI). The following prizes were awarded:
- ASMB/ENBIS book prize for best presentation: Kristina Birch, "Measuring advertising effectiveness using logistic models" (read presentation).
- ASMB/ENBIS online ASMB-subscription prize for best presentation: Roland Göbel, "Process Optimization in Sheet Metal Spinning by Adaptive, Sequential Design of Experiments" (read presentation).
- QREI/ENBIS book prize for best presentation: Jeroen de Mast, "Hypothesis generation in improvement projects: How to identify possible causes?" (read presentation).
- QREI/ENBIS QREI-subscription prize for best poster: Carolyn van Lottum, "Kansei, a methodology for translating emotions into design".

September 17, 2004: At the Copenhagen Conference, 2004 George Box Award recipient Søren Bisgaard will deliver the George Box Lecture.

September 10, 2004: Former president of ENBIS, present editor of the ENBIS magazine Tony Greenfield has been awarded the 2004 William G. Hunter award presented by the ASQ Statistics Division. The award recognizes Tonys substantial contributions to statistical consulting, education for practitioners, and integration of statistics with other disciplines as well as demonstrated excellence in communication and implementing innovative applied statistical methods.

August 20, 2004: Checklist for participants of the Annual Conference:
- Bring a hardcopy of the abstracts and the programme.
- Bring your research papers, copies of your PhD-thesis, or reprints for distribution (there will be a table where you can put your publications up for grabs).
- If you deliver a (poster or oral) presentation: did you submit your paper or sheets for inclusion on the conference CD-ROM? (Deadline is 1 September).
- Did you register and pay the fee?

August 19, 2004: Elections for the board are open. Votes are due by September 16. Read the procedure.

August 17, 2004: the first issue of ENBIS Magazine is now available online.  Future issues will be posted after the magazine has been delivered to members who request it.

August 16, 2004: the updated conference programme and list of abstracts are on-line.

August 5, 2004: the 5th ENBIS International Conference will be held in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, from 14—16th September 2005 in Newcastle United Football Club conference suite. All ideas and contributions welcome to Shirley Coleman.

August 5, 2004: The ENBIS Special Issue of QREI, featuring papers from last year's conference in Barcelona, is available. Participants of the conference in Copenhagen will get a free copy.

July 2, 2004: the updated conference programme, including allocation of contributions to the parallel sessions, is available.

July 2, 2004: ENBIS ALERT!! All members are urgently asked to read the latest Newsletter.

July 2, 2004: The procedure for the 2004 board elections was started. There are 7 vacant positions. The nomination committee has nominated candidates for each position, but members can as well nominate candidates by petition. The full ballot will be presented by 16 August. Members can vote until 16 September. The procedure and timetable can be found on the election page.

June 14, 2004: Shirley Coleman has finished editing the Special Issue of QREI, with papers from last year's Barcelona conference. Also this year there will be a special issue of QREI with papers of the ENBIS conference. Martina Vandebroek will be guest editor of this issue.

June 14, 2004: the provisional conference programme is available.

June 14, 2004: Unfortunately, the pre-conference course on consultancy skills has been cancelled. The post-conference course on Six Sigma will take place as planned.

May 25, 2004: available information on the Copenhagen conference:
- submitted abstracts
- Submission guidelines for contributors
- Keynote addresses
- Postconference workshop on Six Sigma by Søren Bisgaard, Ronald Does and Jeroen de Mast
Only a limited number of hotel rooms have been reserved for conference participants. It is recommended to book early as a number of activities take place in Copenhagen in September. Use the on-line booking service.

May 17,2004: Around 90 abstracts were received for this year's conference in Copenhagen. Next year's conference will be held 14-16 September, 2005, in Newcastle, UK.

May 11, 2004: The 2004 Box Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Industrial Statistics is awarded to Søren Bisgaard in recognition of his leadership in development and application of statistical methods and his inspiring role for statistical practitioners in Europe. The award will be presented to Søren Bisgaard at the Copenhagen Conference.

May 11, 2004: Upon request of some members the deadline for submitting nominations for the Prize for Young Statisticians has been extended to May 31. See the procedure in the March issue of the Newsletter.

April 18, 2004: Share your publications: There will be a table available at the Copenhagen conference where participants can put copies of their articles, research papers and PhD theses up for grabs. The suppliers are requested to keep the table tidy and to dispose of remaining material at the end of the conference. Material with commercial purposes will be refused.

April 8, 2004: The official ENBIS flyer can be downloaded.

April 4, 2004: The April edition of the Newsletter is available.

March 17, 2004: bENBIS organizes a workshop on "Statistical tools for sensory analysis: a methodological and applied tour...". The workshop will take place on May 14, 2004 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). More information can be found on the website of the local ENBIS network http://www.stat.ucl.ac.be/B-ENBIS/.

March 15, 2004: Søren Bisgaard delivered the 2003 Box Medal for Outstanding Contribution to Industrial Statistics to its first recipient: professor George Box. See the pictures.

March 5, 2004: The March edition of the Newsletter is available.

March 5, 2004: The Council of ENBIS have arranged for the publication of a professionally produced magazine every two months. It will be included as part of Scientific Computing World, a magazine that already has a wide circulation throughout Europe.
Every member of ENBIS who wishes to receive this will be added to the mailing list of Scientific Computing World. There is no charge for this. You will receive Scientific Computing World, including the ENBIS magazine, every two months absolutely free.
Scientific Computing World reports on and analyses the application of computing to science, technology and medicine, focusing on research, development, testing and laboratory analysis. The magazine carries news, comment, feature articles, product news, and is recognised for its authoritative software reviews, especially in the area of maths/stats software.
As well as case studies, the ENBIS section of the magazine can include: conference reports, workshop reports, local network reports, interest group reports, calendar of events, letters, book announcements, news of people. For more information, contact John Logsdon or Tony Greenfield.
What to do if you want to receive the magazine: go to your membership record, verify the postal address, and check the SCW field.

January 16, 2004: the Interest Group on General Statistical Modelling organizes a half-day's seminar-workshop on statistical methods, models, and aspects of their industrial (in a wide sense) applications. The workshop will start at 2 p.m., on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at the Institute of Information Theory and Automation of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. The programme will consists of the Interest Group presentation and a series of talks of invited guests. Read more ...

January 9, 2004: Now available on-line:
- Registration for the Fourth Annual ENBIS meeting in Copenhagen.
- Submission of abstracts for the Copenhagen conference (deadline: 30 April).
- Registration for the postconference Workshop on Six Sigma, by Søren Bisgaard, Ronald Does and Jeroen de Mast.

December 22, 2003: Pro-ENBIS and IBION organise a workshop with the title Design of experiments – Benefits to industry. The workshop is scheduled May 13-14, at Matforsk, As, Norway. More info ....

December 21, 2003: reports of the interest group meetings in Barcelona are available.

November 28, 2003: Prior to the fourth annual conference (Copenhagen, 20-22 September), ENBIS offers a one-day Workshop on Consultancy Skills, delivered by Roland Caulcutt and Stephen Mathews. After the conference, there is a three days' Workshop on Six Sigma. Instructors are Søren Bisgaard, Ronald Does and Jeroen de Mast. Read more.

November 28, 2003: ECMI and ENBIS present the European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, June 21-25, 2004, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. The conference will be devoted to mathematical and statistical modelling, analysis and simulation of problems arising in a practical context. The conference is intended for mathematicians, statisticians, scientists and engineers, both from industry and academia. There will be invited lectures by distinguished researchers, minisymposia, contributed papers and posters. Plenary speakers include S.Bisgaard, R.Helmig, J.Hinch, J.Hunt, C.Rogers, C.Rossow, F.Ruggeri, B.Schrefler, M.Trowbridge and M.Waterman.
There is a reduced fee for (pro-)ENBIS members. Please note that the deadline for early bird registration is February 1, 2004. For further information, please consult the web page.

November 4, 2003: The November edition of the Newsletter is available.

November 4, 2003: Some of the results of Pro-ENBIS activities are available here as an additional benefit to ENBIS members.

October 15, 2003: The Royal Statistical Society organises a two days' conference on Business Improvement through Statistical Thinking, 21–22 April, 2004. More info ....

October 8, 2003: The October edition of the Newsletter is available.

September 5, 2003: the presentation slides of Luis Escobar's keynote address (The Role of Reliability in Quality) are available on-line.

September 5, 2003: bENBIS (the Belgian local network of ENBIS) organizes a workshop on datamining. Date: 1 October, 2003. Location: Leuven, Belgium. Read more ...

September 1, 2003: The September edition of the Newsletter is available.

August 29, 2003: available information about the Barcelona conference:
- List of participants and e-mail addresses
- Awarded presentations and future ENBIS awards.
- Prof. Box's letter to the conference.

August 27, 2003: analysis of membership growth and membership per country. The current number of members is 824.

August 25, 2003: the results of the 2003 board elections are available, and there is a new board.

August 7, 2003: the campaign to raise funds for the visit of George Box has yielded an amount of 5550 euros. Read more ...

August 4, 2003: the August edition of the newsletter ENBIS News is available.

July 15, 2003: Elections for the board are open. Votes are due by August 15. Read the procedure.

July 14, 2003: the provisional conference programme is available on-line.

June 30, 2003: ENBIS can accept payments by credit card (Visa and Mastercard). See transfer money for details.

June 30, 2003: the June / July edition of the newsletter ENBIS News is available.

June 19, 2003: ENBIS tries to raise funds for George Box's visit to Barcelona. Please read the letter of the treasurer.

June 12, 2003: The definitive logos for ENBIS and Pro-ENBIS were established. The logos can be downloaded in various forms and file formats.

June 10, 2003:In the last months we have been working hard to make it possible to accept payments by credit card. Much later than anticipated, the technical implementation is completed. We are now waiting for approval of the credit card companies. This should be settle by 1 July.

June 7, 2003: The keynote addresses on the conference in Barcelona are given by Antje Christensen, Luis Escobar and Enrique Barba.

June 1, 2003: The procedure for the 2003 board elections was started. There are 7 vacant positions. The nomination committee has nominated candidates for each position, but members can as well nominate candidates by petition. The full ballot will be presented by 15 July. Members can vote until 15 August. The procedure and timetable can be found on the election page.

May 29, 2003: Conference news:
- Available on-line: all the submitted abstracts
- Information about the venue
- Submission guidelines for papers and posters
- See also: events page for an overview of the conference

May 17, 2003: The deadline for submission of abstracts for the Barcelona conference is passed. In total, 108 abstracts were submitted.

May 1, 2003: The May edition of ENBIS News is published on-line.

March 12, 2003: The second call for papers for the Barcelona conference was sent out. Links:
- The events page for general information about the conference.
- The on-line procedure for submission of abstracts and registration.
Make sure to book your accommodation early: August is high season in Barcelona.

March 7, 2003: On Saturday, May 31st, following the DEINDE 2003 conference in Cagliari, there will be a pro-ENBIS workshop on Design of Experiments (DoE). For further details and registration form, please go to http://dimeca.unica.it/deinde_org_eng.html.

February 11, 2003: The working group on statistical consulting has composed a list of web resources that are relevant for statistical consultants. See: the webpage of the consultancy working group.

January 22, 2003: Jesper Frickmann has collected some games that can be used for training of statistics. Furthermore, he has set-up a webpage where program code for statistical calculations is collected. See: the webpage of the consultancy working group.

January 9, 2003: the feedback that was collected concerning the conference in Rimini has been analysed. The results are presented in a report.

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