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Customer Focus: Are You the Problem or Solution?
Denis Leonard
Whether it’s employee or customer satisfaction, or product and service quality issues, do you really know what’s happening in your organization? What are you currently doing, or being directed to do, that doesn’t make sense and makes you feel like you are going around in circles? Yet these are…
Gain Sharing and Lean Six Sigma
Gain sharing and lean Six Sigma are highly complementary systems that are mutually reinforcing. While both efforts are excellent by themselves in improving productivity, quality, and a variety of other measures, they are much more powerful together. Both systems are based on the principles of…
Root Cause Analysis: Addressing Some Limitations of the 5 Whys
Stewart Anderson
The 5 Whys is a well-known root cause analysis technique that originated at Toyota and has been adopted by many other organizations that have implemented lean manufacturing principles. Unlike more sophisticated problem-solving techniques, the 5 Whys doesn’t involve data segmentation, hypothesis…
What’s Your Tiebreaker?
Joe Calloway
Right now there are potential customers for your business trying to decide whether or not to choose you. Unfortunately, most of them can’t see much difference between you and your competition. You’ve all got good quality products or services. You all seem to have competent, helpful people. It all…
Outlook for the Machine Tool Industry in the Current Economy
Raissa Carey
Just as many industry sectors have been experiencing this year, the machine tools industry has seen a slow period in consumption and distribution of manufacturing technology. Manufacturing technology consumption data is relevant because it provides a reliable economic indicator of how…
A Quality Professional’s Holiday Wish List, Second Edition
Davis Balestracci
Almost everyone celebrates something during the winter solstice—Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, etc.—which inevitably includes gift exchanging. Following are some suggestions that run the gamut from technical to personal growth to just plain entertainment. Videos/DVDs There is a “quality”…
Lean Six Sigma Fusion and Confusion
Aditya Bhalla
The Six Sigma journey of many organizations has morphed into “lean Six Sigma” during the past couple of years. While the fusion of two methodologies has yielded benefits, it has also spawned a number of urban legends on the context and relevance of combining the two methodologies. What…
The Examined Life
The Un-Comfort Zone With Robert Wilson
“H ola!” “Hola. ¿Qué tal?” “Bien. ¿ y tu?” “Bien.” Paul and I were 16 years old and had taken Spanish for a year. We called each other every night on the phone and spoke to each other in our new language. More than anything, we wanted to test our skill with a real Spanish-speaking…
Case Study: Six Sigma in a Software Support Environment
Tim Leary
Story update 11/23/2010: A paragraph was added to the end of this case study to reflect the current state of the company's quality initiatives. Acme Technology Services (not their real name) is a privately-held provider of technology-enabled business solutions. Acme’s retail software division…
The Next New Thing Is Here
David C. Crosby
Is anyone performing total quality management (TQM) anymore? MIL-Q-9858A? Total cost of quality (TCQ)? Pert planning? Are there any one-minute managers around? Pareto? What about “up the organization?” Value analysis? Quality is free? They were all big things—in their day. We in the quality…
How to Promote Your Certification Correctly
Stacey Corbin
You just finished your audit, and your registrar has handed you a brand-new certificate. Now, what do you do to make sure everyone knows about it? Most likely you’ll send an e-mail out to the entire company, prepare a press release, post an announcement on your web site, and so on. But sometimes,…
From Limbo to Liberation
Michelle LaBrosse
We all have one hiding over there in the groan zone. It’s the unfinished project that lives in a strange sort of limbo. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb reminds us in The Black Swan (Random House, 2007), the longer a project goes unfinished, there is an exponential increase in the time to finish the…
Making Everyone Whole
Chet Marchwinski
Ihave had a big smile on my face for much of the last month because I’ve had the opportunity to visit progressive organizations on three continents to look at their efforts to create lean value streams. Walking through any process, good or bad, seems to put a smile on my face for one of two…
The Night Before...
Denise Robitaille
T was the night before Christmas and all through the plant Not a technician was stirring, no quality rants. Performance charts were pinned to the cork board with care, In hopes that, their progress, people would share. The micrometers were nestled, all snug and encased Protected from…
Six Sigma Tricks of the Trade: Less Tricks, More Trade
Jay Arthur—The KnowWare Man
After a meal at a local Chinese restaurant, my fortune cookie said, “If you keep too busy learning the tricks of the trade, you may never learn the trade.” When I think about how this applies to Six Sigma, it seems obvious that far too much Six Sigma training is dedicated to the tricks of the…
Has Your Company Been HAD?
Cathy Sunshine
The only thing worse for companies than making bad decisions is having a deeply flawed decision-making process. Every business leader faces stressful situations that require immediate action, but the final choices can often by tainted by a destructive trio of hubris, arrogance, and denial. …
A Small Company's Continuous Improvement Challenge Saves $1.3 Million
Eric Clower
The economic downturn has caused heartache, sleepless nights, fatigue, and excessive stress for many people at all levels of most companies this past year. It was no different for me. The company I work for (an aerospace component manufacturing and repair company) started seeing the downturn in…
3-D Scanning Used to Recreate 100-Year-Old Darwin Bust
Michael Raphael
The year 2009 contains two significant anniversaries within the scientific community: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his groundbreaking book On the Origin of Species. To honor these milestones, the National…
Is the Pareto Principle Coming Home to Roost?
Davis Balestracci
The economy has become a convenient excuse on which to pin the blame for everything—especially job losses. Well, in the case of quality positions, yes… and no. A sobering thought: Will the Pareto principle (the 80/20 rule) inevitably apply to the quality profession? I think so. It’s time to “…
Implementing ISO/IEC 27001
BSI
With security breaches on the rise, protecting your organization’s confidential and valuable information assets is one of the most important safety measures your organization can take. The issues surrounding information security involve more than just hackers and malicious software; they can…
Living in More Than One World
Bruce Rosenstein
In a legendary 70-year career, Peter Drucker, “the father of modern management,” revolutionized modern business practices, transforming management theory into a serious discipline. His influence was far-reaching, extending to developments that included decentralization, privatization, and…
Offshore Wind Turbines Setup Using Mobile Optical CMM
Capture 3D
Because of their size, wind turbines are transported in individual parts to their offshore setup destination. Because individual components are manufactured at different sites, they are often put together for the first time at the mounting site on high seas. Therefore, it is necessary to verify…
Mastering the Quick Change
Jonathan Gilbert
As if it wasn’t difficult enough tightening up the recession ropes, many organizations will soon find themselves reeling as the tide changes, and hiring and production once again swing into full gear. So the challenge becomes how to do more with less now, while preparing for the economic…
Made-Up Lean Enterprise Statistics
Jon Miller
For a group of people who claim to practice management by fact, questioning the as-given condition, we in the lean community have a troubling habit of citing and accepting made-up lean enterprise statistics. In fact, I would say that at least 50 percent of statistics cited about lean have been…
'Tis the Season—For Temps and Tip Jars
Bill Kalmar
As the holiday season approaches, there are several inevitable occurrences that will try our patience. Along with people jostling in lines, especially before dawn as bargain hunters await the opening of a store, the inevitable NASCAR-like jockeying in the parking lots, out-of-stock merchandise,…

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