Good Limits From Bad Data
Some authors recommend that you have to wait until you have the range chart “in control” before you can compute the limits for the average chart or the X chart. Why this is not true will be the subject of this column.
QualiPedia: Kanban
The core of lean manufacturing, kanbans use the “pull” system to prevent waste by creating a cyclical relationship between the consumer, supplier, and manufacturer. The user of a material requests or "pulls" material from the supplier, as they need it.
Books: "It is All Between Your Ears"
(AuthorHouse) -- To put it simply, there is no business without the customer. In any successful business venture, the objective is to keep the customer happy so that they will generate new business.
Books: "Concept to Customer" -- Strategic Project Management
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers presents a new book from Michael J.
Event: Baldrige Recipients to Share Strategies
(NIST: Gaithersburg, MD) -- Senior leaders from the three organizations selected for the 2008 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, as well as representatives from past award recipients, will share their best practices and results at one-day regional conferences on Sept.
Product News: AMETEK Unveils Dry-Block Reference Temperature Calibrator
(AMETEK Calibration Instruments: Largo, FL) -- AMETEK Calibration Instruments has introduced the JOFRA RTC-156, its most advanced dry-block reference temperature calibrator to date.
Lean Six Sigma Organizations are Better Equipped to Survive Recession
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In today’s troubled market scenario, we are experiencing something we never expected. Reputed organizations are struggling to run their business and keep their customers satisfied. More jobs are lost with every passing day and big companies are collapsing like never before. Making new investments for changing the business has taken a back seat. All of this symbolizes the big “R” meaning Recession. The key to survival is to somehow run the business until the economic scenario improves, but nobody can exactly say when that moment will come.
Electronic Kanban Helps TRANE Stay Lean
TRANE Residential Systems, is a lean organization that knows about growth through innovation. In 1931, TRANE came up with the radical idea of using technology to provide relief from the summer heat.
