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What a week. On April 30, 2018, there were top-level delegations from two disciplines: In Beijing the Chinese hosted a cabinet-level delegation of U.S. trade representatives; and in Seattle, the ASQ hosted the Sino-U.S. Quality Summit, the first of its global summit series as part of its annual World Conference on Quality and Improvement (WCQI).
The Sino-U.S. Quality Summit was a meeting of about 100 senior executives and staff from American and Chinese organizations to present and discuss ideas on quality. It was an impressive list of attendees, as the Chinese were represented by the chairmen, presidents, and vice presidents of prominent organizations. A couple dozen American and multinational companies were represented, including Boeing, BMW, Genentech, Google, IBM, Northrop Grumman, and Johnson Controls.
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Silicon Valley
An attempt to mix a "Silicon Valley" approach to software development, where designing on the fly is the norm, with manufacturing, would seem doomed to an expensive failure. I would want to make sure my design was pretty much set in stone before committing millions of dollars to building a factory. Changing a few lines of code is far cheaper than changing a few machines. However, I'm sure that at a top level meeting such as this, presenting an image of sounding innovative and progressive was what was important.
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