Mike Micklewright asks why so many organizations that say they are practicing lean receive nonconformities related to preventive actions during their ISO 9001 audit?
Also covered: Overview of 8 Wastes
1) Defects
2) Overproduction
3) Waiting
4) Not using employees minds or skills
5) Transportation
6) Inventory
7) Motion
8) Excess processing
Overview of Minitab's Quality Trainer.
Learn the statistics you need to improve quality and how to use Minitab Statistical Software to analyze your data any time you are online.
Visit www.minitab.com/training/elearning/?WT.mc_id=WA09I0139.
In this episode of Whiteboard, Mike Micklewright compares the value of Six Sigma to Kaoru Ishikawa's Seven Basic Quality Tools.
1) Scatter Plots
2) Histograms
3) Pareto Charts
4) Flow Charts
5) Check Sheets
6) Cause & Effect Diagrams (aka Fishbone or Ishikawa diagrams)
7) Run and Control Charts
Profiles in Quality: an interview with Wini Hayes, founder and CEO of Hayes Inc. (www.hayesinc.com/hayes/about_us/key-people/winifred-s-hayes-phd/), an independent health technology research and consulting company. In this interview, Hayes discusses the state of health care quality in the United States and what can be done to improve it.
This is Part 2 of our series on hazardous substance process management.
In this episode we cover:
* Taiwan's electronics industry as the birth of Hazardous Substance Process Management
* Why Taiwan saw QC 080000 as a means to ease ROHS compliance
* The passing of ROHS-type legislation in California
* How audits from registrars such as Intertek strengthen ROHS compliance
For more information and a free white paper on QC 080000 click here.
Don't miss the other episodes of this series:
Special Report: Hazardous Substance Process Management—Intro
Special Report: Hazardous Substance Process Management—Part 1
Special Report: Hazardous Substance Process Management—Part 2
In this episode, Craig Howell, owner and president of CPM Labs, shows us how to use and care for a torque wrench.
* How to use them
* How they work
* Calibration
* How to care for them
* Also shown: torque transducers and torque display
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NEW! The first seven episodes of "Technorazzi" with Craig Howell of CPM Labs are now available on one DVD. The cost is only $49.95 with steep quantity discounts available.
This video is not included in that video.
Each of these episodes gives a quick, concise overview of how to handle/use a variety of basic gauges. Each episode is 5 to 10 minutes in length, just enough to get the point across without taking up your lunch time.
CPM Laboratories
2945 Kilgore Road
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Phone: 916-635-4489
SmartGD&T
An Advanced Beginner's Course
Presented by Bill Tandler, founder and president of Multi Metrics Inc.
Produced by Quality Digest and Musselman Pictures at the 2008 CMSC in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Episode 1 Content:
* Course Overview
* Precise definitions of GD&T.
Craig Howell of CPM labs demonstrates a simple vision system.
This type of system is quite simple compared to high-end vision systems, but the techniques are similar.
In this demonstration
* Measuring the diameter of President Lincoln's nose
* The distance between the leads on an integrated circuit
* Compensating for skew
* Measuring an angle
* Various types of light sources.
The first seven episodes of "Technorazzi" with Craig Howell of CPM Labs are now available on one DVD. The cost is only $49.95 with steep quantity discounts available.
This video is not included in that video.
Each of these episodes gives a quick, concise overview of how to handle/use a variety of basic gauges. Each episode is 5 to 10 minutes in length, just enough to get the point across without taking up your lunch time.
CPM Laboratories
2945 Kilgore Road
Rancho Cordova, CA 95670
Phone: 916-635-4489
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