The designed route, may not be what is typically taken.
There is an office complex over 100 years old just outside of Chicago. Still occupied, it is an office complex for a leadership team that...
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- Jun 28
- 3 min
It is hard to falsify a fire extinguisher inspection.
The next time see a fire extinguisher in a public area, take a few seconds to scrutinize its inspection tag. The majority of you,...
- May 14
- 4 min
Your outage's duration shouldn't be divisible by eight all of the time.
Could you walk into a manufacturing facility and get an accurate read on the maturity to plan and execute planned outages with a single...
- Sep 25, 2022
- 5 min
The math is emotionally correct
Years ago, I got into a spirited discussion with a colleague about a quality measurement he wanted each production unit to use within all...
- Sep 4, 2022
- 4 min
Layers of protection, and still mismatch errors.
A statistic I came across the other day indicates that 6.3 billion prescriptions were dispensed in the United States in 2020. Combine...
- Jul 26, 2022
- 4 min
I forgot. What do you do after a conference?
I assume most attendees of organizations are required to that write some form of “trip report” that reflects on the take-aways of a...
- Jun 27, 2022
- 4 min
Can we make virtual meetings not suck?
We are two years into drinking virtual meetings from a fire hose, and for some of us, it may feel like a decade. The ease of having a...
- Apr 3, 2022
- 3 min
Using ALL CAPS does not make it more important.
To make a claim, I called the 800 number in the instruction manual of my coffee machine. A small fastener has broken, resulting in the...
- Mar 20, 2022
- 3 min
Shoveling snow does not require perfection.
Last week I heard the birds chirping in my yard indicating to me that spring was in the air. All of this season’s snow had melted...
- Mar 14, 2022
- 5 min
Dr. Lloyd S. Nelson didn't yell, he insisted.
There are plenty of tools to conduct investigations within manufacturing. Some can be solved with a 5-why or an Ishikawa diagram. Others...
- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
Did we get a good deal trading production time for scheduled maintenance?
Regardless of whether you have production units that are reliable or unreliable, I would like to propose a different type of performance...
- Feb 22, 2022
- 2 min
"No-rep" on that pushup
In some form or another, supply chains appear to be a challenge in every market. Combined with the disruptions in supply chains,...
- Jan 3, 2022
- 2 min
Using algorithms for spares management. Easy, right?
Academic references exist for inventory optimization to reflect current reliability and current market conditions. Within manufacturing,...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 2 min
Quality Initiatives in Manufacturing: How Do We Handle Incoming Quality Losses Impacting OEE
Quality Initiatives in Manufacturing: How Do We Handle Incoming Quality Losses Impacting OEE As organizations embark on Overall Equipment...
- Dec 22, 2021
- 2 min
Fostering Collaboration by Condensing Presented Data? Yep.
I've been reflecting on a project I'd previously worked on which included presenting the objectives and strategies of an organization for...
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