Family Quality Day
‘You want me to pull the kids out of school for what?”
Six Ways to Reduce Labor Costs in Manufacturing
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Can you reduce your manufacturing labor costs without laying off the workforce?
Labor costs are likely the largest line item on your company balance sheet. Therefore, a successful cost-reduction strategy must adequately balance resourcing and cost controls.
Process Validation, Part 2
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Black swans and the issues with induction
Process Validation, Part 1
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An ancient paradox sheds light on process validation
There is a great Greek paradox/puzzle called the Ship of Theseus. There are multiple versions and derivations to it. My favorite version is as follows (highly watered down).
Inside Quality Digest Live for June 30, 2017
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The sky is falling. That's ok. We got an app for that.
Credit: MIT News
The June 30, 2017, episode of QDL offered a wrinkle in time, of sorts: not only orbiting debris and medieval medicine, but moments in the here and now such as our interview with Keith Bevan of the Coordinate Metrology Society and the UK’s National Physical L
Document the Current State
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The current state becomes the baseline from which you will start improving
Making the Most of Quality Data
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The data you've already collected can be reused for further process improvements
Credit: IBM Curiosity Shop
Root Cause Analysis: Not Out of the Mountains, Yet
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Just because you've found a root doesn't mean you have found the root
Credit: Hank Conner
As you drive east on I-70 coming from the Rockies, there is a point where you seem to have stopped descending, but a sign says, “Trucks: Don’t be fooled.