Do you have a hidden factory? Do you know employees who always have time to do it over but never time to get it right? Did you know organizations waste up to 40% of their capacity this way? Well, raise a glass to the quality guru who championed the capture…
Did you know that the secret behind “any color as long as it’s black” was that Henry Ford figured out black paint dried faster? Did you know that Kingsford Charcoal originated from when Ford burned the pallets transporting his raw materials? Did you know he identified 2 of the eventual…
In the early 1980s there was a countrywide failure of computer tape drives. The tape drives were all made by IBM, they were crashing in large and small businesses alike and no one knew why. This was a big problem for business and definitely a big problem for IBM. We’ll…
In case you missed this Summer's blog series at GoLeanSixSigma.com, here it is again! In this 3-part blog series titled Pied Quality, Kurt Stuke (Quality Manager at Adecco) shakes up the traditional perspective on quality and inspires us to approach improvement in an exciting new way. Pied Quality 1. Appreciate The…
Used with permission. © ASQ, July 2015, The Journal for Quality and Participation, Vol. 38, No.2. In this 3-part blog series titled Pied Quality, Kurt Stuke (Quality Manager at Adecco) shakes up the traditional perspective on quality and inspires us to approach improvement in an exciting new way. Read Part…
Here are our top picks for Lean Six Sigma news from around the web for the week of October 6, 2014. FBOD Employees Celebrate with A3 Fair The Finance and Business Operations Division (FBOD) in King County, Washington celebrated one year of learning about the Lean A3 problem solving tool.…
