Cutting Costs With Smart Reusable Plastic Containers
Automation in the fresh produce sector is standard fare these days. What may not be so standard are the containers that get the produce from farm to market.
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Automation in the fresh produce sector is standard fare these days. What may not be so standard are the containers that get the produce from farm to market.
To date, this series focused on relatively simple data analyses, such as learning one summary statistic about our data at a time.
Iwas talking to a friend recently, and the subject of organizational health came up. With my quality background my ears perked up, and I asked him to explain what he thought organizational health meant.
We live in an era of statue removal. Meanwhile the largest mountain carving in the world is under construction in the Black Hills of South Dakota just 17 miles from Mount Rushmore. The final carving will be 640 feet long and more than 50 stories high.
This series is about planning for the worst that can face us.
Credit: "stressed?!" by 8.zebra
When the Covid pandemic swept through the country last year, companies rapidly transitioned employees to working from home (WFH).
In a customer-centered world, meeting customers’ needs is more demanding and business-critical than ever. Simultaneously, manufacturers struggle to reduce operating costs as margins compress and the competitive landscape intensifies.
No matter who you are or what you do, you create systems and live in the systems of others every day. But for some reason, we’re never actually taught lean systems thinking. We think it is natural, that we just sort of “get it.”
For more than 40 years it has been common to use the precision to tolerance ratio (P/T ratio) to compare the standard deviation of measurement error with the specified tolerance for a particular product.
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