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Articles Tagged with ''continuous improvement''

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How Digital Twins Can Optimize Production, Fabrication, and Assembly

May 1, 2024

Digital twins replicate real-world environments digitally, aiding manufacturers in optimizing processes and improving safety and performance.


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Lean with Lazarus | Ian R. Lazarus

If You Want to Improve Quality, Get Out of Town

It is the delighters that separate world class companies from the rest of the pack.
Ian Lazarus
Ian R Lazarus
April 24, 2024

If you feel you need to calibrate your quality radar, do your customers a favor, and get out of town.


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Software & Analysis

Don’t Touch That Process-Improvement Dial!

Despite your best intentions, you cannot improve a process without first differentiating between common and special causes.
Paul Keller
March 21, 2024

In many production settings, machine operators are tasked with monitoring processes by taking samples and making adjustments as needed to maintain productivity. However, there's a question worth exploring: What if ignoring these data-driven adjustments and allowing the process to continue unchanged is a better strategy?


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The Quality Show South

Podcast: Wicked Good Leadership: How to Leverage Lean to Engage People and Grow your Business

March 15, 2024

Paul Critchley, president of New England Lean Consulting, discusses Lean principles at the Quality Show South in Nashville this May. Learn how to leverage Lean for business growth in his session, "Wicked Good Leadership."


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Face of Quality

Everyone Embracing Change is Key to Success

Change Management
QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
January 3, 2024

Change management is a process for ensuring that the people affected by change understand the nature of the change and the reasons for it. Successful change management is an all-hands-on-deck activity.


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Face of Quality

Marketplace Projection is a Minefield

Predicting marketplace demand is not an exact science.
QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
October 25, 2023

As many manufacturers realize, a forecast is always a gamble. At best, it is an educated guess.


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Fellow Traveler

Stakeholders: Adroit Navigation for Managing Up and Across

A quality leader within an organization must be an adroit navigator.
Daniel Zrymiak
Daniel Zrymiak
October 20, 2023

Different examples of internal corporate dynamics that an internal quality leader must successfully navigate.


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Face of Quality

Part 2: Delivering the Best

We need to establish clarity about what is expected.
QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
September 27, 2023

This column continues the discussion on delivering the best effort to break through roadblocks as we journey through life. If you haven’t had the chance to read my previous column, I would encourage you to do so.


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Management

4 Ways Manufacturers Can Drive Business Efficiency With AI

Every advancement counts in today’s fiercely competitive economy.
Doug Lawson
September 11, 2023

We explore a few specific ways manufacturing business leaders can benefit from AI by implementing it into their smart factories.


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Face of Quality

Part 1 of 2: Delivering the Best

I would have never achieved those positive results without someone taking an interest in pushing me.
QM 0222 CLMN Face AUTHOR Jim Smith
Jim L. Smith
September 10, 2023

Few things are as frustrating as knowing someone has more to give in their job, to their family, or to society, but he or she routinely withholds their best efforts. How do you contend with this condition?


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