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Bill Shankly quote:
Someone said “football is more important than life and death to you” and I said “Listen, it’s more important than that.”
Is the elimination of [...]
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Furoshiki are a type of traditional Japanese wrapping cloth that were frequently used to transport clothes, gifts, or other goods.
Furoshiki means “bath spread” — in feudal Japan, they were used to bundle and protect people’s clothing at public bath houses, but over the years, their standard use has been to tie up any bundle you [...]
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What is Takt Time?
Takt time can be defined as the maximum time allowed to produce a product in order to meet demand. It is derived from the German word taktzeit which translates to clock cycle. The pace of production flow would then be set based on this takt time. Product flow is [...]
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There are many reasons why six-sigma or lean projects fail.
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Economic libertarians are wedded to choice believing that people should be given free rein to make bad choices as well as good - by smoking, for example, or failing to take out a pension plan. Once they have had time to rationally calibrate the costs and benefits, they will realise that [...]
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AKA Fishbone Diagrams or Ishikawa Diagrams
Kaoru Ishikawa pioneered the cause and effect diagram to explore all the potential causes that result in a single effect.
Description: The fishbone diagram identifies many possible causes for an effect or problem. It can be used to structure a brainstorming session. It immediately sorts ideas into useful categories.
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What is the [...]
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ISO 9001 objectives
ISO 9001 is a Quality Management System, which includes specialized quality management standards for specific industries. A Quality Management System is a system of clearly defined organizational structures, processes, responsibilities and resources used to assure minimum standards of quality and can be used to evaluate an organizations overall quality management efforts. An ISO [...]
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In a century from now people will reflect and realise that the cheap flights we now enjoy were economic madness. The newspapers have been raving recently about the favourable exchange rate and the delights of Christmas shopping in New York thereby ignoring the warnings about global warming and air travel. It’s still the fastest growing [...]
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Tofu packed into balloons, by Kamakura-komachi?! Surprisingly a great example for reduced packaging: Its elastic material is extensively stretched, and when pierced with a toothpick, the balloon bursts and only a tiny bit remains. How amazing! REDUCE with more flexibility! The same packaging concept is also applied to a pudding.
Japanese Design #7: A How-to-Reduce-Packaging Journal [...]
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Every week I present a summary of the best posts from the blog-o-sphere which have caught my eye, and here they are:
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This post continues my summary of the The Toyota Way by Dr Jeff K. Liker.
Principle 3: Use the “Pull-System” to Avoid Over Production
The pull-system hinges on the idea of restocking inventory based on the day-to day demand of the customers rather than on a fixed schedule or system. This calls for a flexible system [...]
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Fanatics have a habit of undermining their own cause: just look at animal liberationists, and how their gruesome antics diverted attention from worthwhile campaigns aimed at factory farming. A lunatic fringe now threatens to sabotage the global warming debate in the same way.
In the US, the think-tank that accused Al Gore of hypocrisy over his [...]
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TQM objectives
Total Quality Management (TQM) is a structured system for satisfying internal and external customers and suppliers by integrating the business environment, continuous improvement, and breakthroughs with development, improvement, and maintenance cycles while changing organizational culture. TQM aims for quality principles to be applied broadly throughout an organization or set of business processes.
Comparison with Six [...]
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Every week I present a summary of the best posts from the blog-o-sphere which have caught my eye, and here they are:
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I’ve mentioned before that Six Sigma certainly has its critics, and here are some more:
almost five dozen companies that have adopted Six Sigma and found that the vast majority have underperformed the stock market … while fully 86 percent of them use Six Sigma or similar continuous-improvement methodologies, [...]
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