Manufacturing equipment, including metrology systems, is considered a capital investment, and investment decisions involve more than price. Those decisions are based on other factors affecting the manufacturer’s business including productivity increases, technology advancements to maintain a competitive advantage, market size and growth, demand forecasts and understanding of product life cycles.
All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten, by Robert Fulghum, offers some great lessons: Share everything. Play fair. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Not long ago, I wrote about how important it is to take care of your customer-even when an event occurs that is beyond your control. I was recently talking to someone who commented that she “didn’t understand the relation to quality.” Because my comments really centered on ethics, to me the question was, “What do ethics have to do with quality?”
We are at the same stage where the environment is overworked, and in order to move toward sustainability, we need to cut personal consumption of everything. I mean everything.
Some gage users would be quite pleased to have gages that keep growing in size to negate wear. Unfortunately, it’s not a controllable situation and will result in your no-go plug gages going oversize on a continuous basis. You win some, you lose some.
In a recent article for Fortune Magazine, Steven Rattner gives a behind-the-scenes look at the government’s bailout of the automotive industry. Rattner, who headed up the task force that did most of the hands-on work, said that despite low expectations, his group was shocked by the state of affairs at both General Motors and Chrysler.
Design of Experiments (DOE) analyzes a process, targeting the process variables that most affect product quality, allowing one to understand those variables. Then, by controlling or-even better-mistake-proofing those variables, it is possible to prevent product defects from occurring.
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