Entropy and the puzzle
What is your approach to solving a puzzle? I assume it starts with flipping over each cardboard-brown piece to make the patterns face up....
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- Apr 2
- 5 min
Can Reynold's Number predict the fluidity of writing a blog?
I am in a blogging rut. I am not finishing the blogs that I have started. I am struggling to thoroughly finish getting thoughts written...
- Mar 19
- 3 min
Forging with dissent
Do you remember the scene in Animal House when Stork redirects the band during the parade? Under the direction of Marion Wormer, he takes...
- Jan 22
- 6 min
Yes. We can do more with less.
What does doing more with less mean to you? If measured with a rigid denominator within a rate, we simply would answer that we must...
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Avoid making your spares a gift card
I want you to imagine a collection of spare parts for a manufacturing facility. In this facility, spare parts have been traditionally...
- Jan 1
- 4 min
Complacency after commissioning shut this production unit down.
I have not been writing for about two weeks. What has been a mission over the last year to create a personal therapeutic habit has...
- Oct 9, 2022
- 7 min
Is your bottleneck morphing?
Many simulation tools and references exist to find the bottleneck within the production process to find ways to increase capacity and...
- 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...
- Feb 15, 2022
- 5 min
The Burden of Weekend Work Doesn't Always Start with an Action on Friday.
I have been told multiple times over my career, “Don’t send me a notification to approve something on a weekend.” Or do not send an...
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