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100% Final Inspection is Not 100% Accurate 0
- Quality
- December 4, 2024
An “old school” view of quality control viewed inspection as the key to quality. One-hundred-percent inspection is commonly used to avoid shipping nonconforming product. Each of the items produced is measured and judged to be either conforming or nonconforming. Find the defects and throw ’em out. Whatever survived the inspection process was, by default, high
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How Effective is Your Poka-Yoke?0
- Quality
- June 17, 2024
Poka-yoke or mistake-proofing is the use of process design features to facilitate correct actions, prevent simple errors, or mitigate the negative impact of errors. It is essentially used to make the process easier. To assess how effective your solution is, you must look at three factors: the power of the mistake-proofing solution, whether it can be overridden, and
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Obeya – Introducing The Lean War Room Article 0
- A Lean Journey, In the News, Quality, Quality Magazine
- June 10, 2024
Projects are important for generating growth for organizations. Successful projects don’t just happen; they require hard work and collaboration from both project managers and team members to ensure all tasks are completed and goals are met, on time and on budget. However, many projects ultimately fail or are abandoned because the team does not work
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You Get What You Reward, Boeing’s Rewarding Safety and Quality Performance 0
- In the News, Quality, Safety
- March 20, 2024
We’ve all heard the phrase “what gets measured gets done” but I also believe “what gets rewarded gets done even quicker.” Understanding how employee rewards and recognition impacts productivity, performance, and employee engagement has been the subject of many studies and experiments, ergo, the salient connection between human behavior and appreciation needs no introduction. We
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The Real Impact of Poor Quality 0
- Quality
- January 22, 2024
Quality affects a company in a variety of ways, from productivity and profitability to customer satisfaction and public perception. In addition, quality affects the overall operating costs of a company. Focusing on quality helps keep a company strong in all areas. In this article I highlight three effects on how poor quality can affect your
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Jidoka – Find an Issue, Stop and Fix It 0
- Quality
- November 15, 2023
There is no room for compromise in Lean when it comes to quality. We have to learn to build quality into our processes and design Lean processes based on right-first-time principles. Building quality into our processes means not simply relying on perfectly trained individuals and teams who never make mistakes. Standard Operating Procedures may help
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