What Does Airline Capacity Have to Do With Lean?
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Scheduling to capacity has consequences whether for airlines or project management
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Is Your Supply Chain at Risk for Modern Slavery Violations?
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What are you doing to address the risks associated with modern slavery in your supply chain?
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What do cocoa, socks, and smartphones have in common? If you guessed risk of slavery in the manufacturing supply chain, you are correct. Does your organization have an international supply chain? Then it’s at risk.
Inside Quality Digest Live for August 11, 2017
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Credit: Georgia Tech
Our August 11, 2017, episode of QDL looked at the role of technology in after-market service, stairs that help you up, Fidget Cubes, and more.
How Technology Is Disrupting the After-Sales Service Industry
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Although some innovations seem dubious at best, others are changing the way business is done
Scientists at Work: Forecasting the Atlantic Hurricane Season
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Hurricane Matthew approaching the east coast of Florida on Oct. 6, 2016
ISO 9001:2015 and the Seven Wastes
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Motion with purpose can be beautiful. Motion without purpose is waste.
Credit: Thomas Hawk
Cp and Cpk: Two Process Perspectives, One Process Reality
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Cp and Cpk work together, like this image of the rabbit and duck.
It’s usually not a good idea to rely solely on a single statistic to draw conclusions about your process. Do that, and you could fall into the clutches of the “duck-rabbit” illusion shown below.
Strategic Change Is All in the Timing
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There are four distinct categories of intervention with which change managers should be familiar.
—Quy Huy
The Importer’s (Brief) Guide to Acceptance Sampling and Why It Matters
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You can't always do 100-percent inspection