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Obesity - a weighty issue

Monday, April 21st, 2008

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photo credit: Trinitas Imaging / Ooodit
What’s the problem?

In May of 2002, the World Health Organization announced a rise in obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Remarkably, this occurred [...]

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SoP to solve a Rubik Cube in six-seconds

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

The usefulness of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) have been proven in industry for decades. They are the documents for training and assessing the competence of an individual to perform a given task. Following the ‘one best way’ philosophy here’s how you solve a Rubik Cube in six-seconds.

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Climate-change lets malaria reach Kenya’s highlands

Friday, April 11th, 2008

photo credit: PQz
Rising temperatures allow Africa’s biggest killer to spread to the highlands, where it once was rare.
In the central mountain regions of Africa once too cool for the carrier mosquitoes, millions are suddenly at risk. In Kenya’s western highlands, maximum annual temperatures over the last 20 years are up about 1.8 degrees. Since [...]

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Ouch! (flip me over!)

Friday, March 21st, 2008

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Ouch! (flip me over!), originally uploaded by Maulleigh.

 
The line worker may not even read text that seems excessive. We have spent the last eight years observing line workers using [...]

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Blogger

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Everyones got a blog ….
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Earthquake hits the UK

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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Follow the line

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

I live fairly close to Nissan’s Sunderland Plant and I read that it has been chosen by its parent company in Japan to be one of only two global training centres for manufacturing excellence.
Production supervisors from Nissan facilities across Europe, India, The Middle East and South Africa will come to Sunderland to learn how [...]

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Eliminate all waste … live in it!

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Shigeo Shingo once said:
The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.
Well it’s pretty easy to spot this waste, it’s empty soda tins - made into a house! The question is did the guy who built this actually drink them all himself?
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Lean Process Illustrated

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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LeanProcess, originally uploaded by GoPro.
A graphical overview of the House of Lean
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Cooperation

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

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Cooperation, originally uploaded by GoPro.

Cooperation, co-operation or coöperation is the practice of individuals or larger societal entities working in common with mutually agreed-upon goals and possibly methods, instead [...]

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Build a polaris sub for $7

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

We’re all undercover statisticians us six-sigma practitioners. So why not send away for strat-o-matic? You’ll have numbers and math coming out of your ears before long.
However, as a UK resident, baseball isn’t all that popular over here, so, I think I’ll stick to either building a Polaris submarine for $7 or even a 10 [...]

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The most pointless SoP ever?

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

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Chocks Away! Time for a 5-Why

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

During engine testing of a new Airbus 340-600, it escaped its chocks and flew into a wall. Where the hell has the cockpit gone?
A case for 5-why if ever I saw one!

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The true value of a $

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

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Bookshelf for the Six Sigma practitioner

Monday, November 19th, 2007

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