Ditch the Rules and Grab the Guidelines
If you can loosen the collar a little for your folks, they’ll operate more freely. Photo by the blowup on Unsplash.
This article is an excerpt from the cutting room floor.
If you can loosen the collar a little for your folks, they’ll operate more freely. Photo by the blowup on Unsplash.
This article is an excerpt from the cutting room floor.
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I was asked to lead a workshop in the sales order department of a manufacturer that we had helped with process improvement on the factory floor. Those efforts had positively reverberated across the company in the form of fewer late and expedited orders.
By not getting caught up by every little thing, we should have more time and energy to dedicate to more important matters. Photo by Drew Coffman on Unsplash.
Sometimes the key to getting a lot done is to actually do nothing at all.
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In the healthcare sector, precision isn’t just a requirement. It’s a necessity where the margins for error are perilously thin, and the consequences of inaccuracy can be grave.
CORE staff celebrates National Blue & Green Day at their headquarters in Pittsburgh. Credit: CORE.
Growing up as a scientist, I didn’t see role models who looked like me. I grew up in a small town where my father was a physicist—and my role model. He nurtured me to be a scientist, just like him.
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Management of change (MOC) is a defined process that organizations establish and follow to ensure health, safety, and reduction of risk during periods of change.
Most of us don’t even like to discuss compensation. Photo by Mathieu Stern on Unsplash.
Pay. It’s the topic we love to avoid. We don’t discuss it with friends or family. It’s verboten at cocktail parties. Heck, we discuss cancer, religion, and abortion at dinner parties more easily than we talk about our paychecks.
Industry is increasingly looking to additive manufacturing as a path to restore domestic capacity for fabricating large metal structures, much of which has moved overseas. Photo by eMotion. Tech on Unsplash
Scientists at the U.S.
Control charts help to understand a process’s “personality,” know which questions to ask, when to intervene, and when to leave a process alone. Photo by Erik Kroon on Unsplash.
In less than two months we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the control chart, a tool most often associated with statistical process control (SPC). Considering SPC from our modern perspective made us ask, “Is SPC still relevant?”