For education sake. Find a mentor.
Learning through experience is exponentially more valuable with a mentor, as long as you want to be the mentee.
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- Apr 27
- 3 min
Briefends
Each Friday, I typically call a friend to catch up. I reach out to them, re-calibrating memories of old stories when camera phones...
- Jan 15, 2023
- 8 min
What if the NFL submitted an OSHA 300 form?
Damar Hamlin's injury in week 17 of the 2022 NFL season was emotionally intense. I wasn’t watching it live, but when I saw it as a reply...
- Oct 30, 2022
- 4 min
Looking back, I guess it was a sightless turn
I was talking to a friend lately about the melancholy moments in a professional career that became influential turns when looking back....
- Sep 11, 2022
- 4 min
Conforming to wrong is wrong
In the 1950s Solomon Asch conducted a social experiment referred to as the Solomon Asch - Conformity Experiment. It was an experiment to...
- Jul 31, 2022
- 6 min
Let's stop people from dying immediately after retirement.
revision 1 - 9.24.2023 The heavy manufacturing industry is a challenging business to be in and may not be a popular career choice. A...
- May 10, 2022
- 4 min
The most misused word in manufacturing
I’ve stopped saying a word. This word can either be used as a noun or a verb and its etymology dates to the 13th century. It is comprised...
- May 1, 2022
- 3 min
Congratulations for what?
Saturdays and Sundays are my days to slow down and write. I dedicate roughly two hours to reading, writing, and reflecting on the...
- Apr 16, 2022
- 4 min
Tina Fey could be your consultant for your feasibility analysis.
Tina Fey has been referenced as using an activity that gets you in the mindset of creativity and invigorated imagination for improv. It...
- Apr 9, 2022
- 4 min
If the data says shoot right, then shoot right.
Using numbers and estimates to predict outcomes can either be a hobby or a profession. This data is the fingerprint of what has happened,...
- 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, the birds were chirping in my yard to signal spring was in the air. The season’s snow had melted and signaled the yard work in...
- 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 7, 2022
- 4 min
Who is your department's helpline for projects?
My zipper broke on my winter jacket the other day and I was able to contact the manufacturer, work through a claim, and have it repaired....
- Feb 28, 2022
- 2 min
What is operational empathy? Part 2.
Before getting into the definition of operational empathy as a continuation of Part 1, I want to describe a mindset that we realized we...
- Feb 20, 2022
- 2 min
What is operational empathy? Part 1.
A decade ago, I was part of a team training Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) to a group of middle and upper management. The audience...
- Feb 6, 2022
- 3 min
Don't Get an Immediate Consensus on Where OEE Delays Get Bucketed. Save That For Later.
Are you interested in starting to measure effectiveness with Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) on a production unit? To start, I...
- Jan 24, 2022
- 3 min
TIMWOODS doesn't like Munchkins. But everyone else does.
TIMWOODS was recently seen at a Dunkin’Ⓡ , ordering the option of 10 MunchkinsⓇ. Like previous times, TIMWOODS did not get ten when 10...
- Jan 18, 2022
- 3 min
Utilize Metaphors When Training OEE One Snatch at a Time.
I have measured and trained Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) for decades, routinely using different concepts to construct its...
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
You know Murphy? So do I.
In manufacturing, we reference things like “Murphy will get you” or “Murphy’s Law” when describing unpredictable results and scenarios...
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