Is It Time for Aerospace to Get Unapologetically Hard-Nosed About Quality?
Boeing is demanding its suppliers reduce their prices by 10 percent, according to a February 2018 article published in Bloomberg Businessw
Overproduction vs. Fast Improvement Cycles
A couple of weeks ago I posed the question, “Are you overproducing improvements?” and compared a typical improvement “blitz” with a large monument ma
Obstacles to Process Improvement
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Major change initiatives fail due to lack of focus and a lack of discipline to realize the vision
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Becoming a process-focused organization requires a sustained effort, and for most industrial and service organizations that is a difficult task.
Are You Overproducing Improvements?
Imagine a factory with a large monument machine. It takes several days to set up. When it does run, it runs very fast, much faster than you can actually use its output. Therefore, you take the excess output and store it to use later.
FARO Quantum<sup>S</sup> Helps Woodland Trade Co. Win Jobs, Boeing Supplier of the Year, Part 2
The No. 1 Reason Why Continuous Improvement Projects Fail
In a previous article I wrote about the reasons why so many lean manufacturing, Six Sigma, and other improvement programs fail. In this article I’m going to expand on reason No. 1: the Academy Award Syndrome.
FARO Quantum<sup>S</sup> Helps Woodland Trade Co. Win Jobs, Boeing Supplier of the Year, Part 1
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Manufacturing activities have strong ties to economic prosperity.
