Most of the projects we build have never been built before; most are completely clean sheet designs, meaning that no one is quite sure what this machine will end up looking like. This means that…
Discovering and Resolving Problems
Value Curves
Most industries compete around the same points of competition and it becomes a race where everyone makes incremental changes in how they compete, but not very often does anyone truly have a breakthrough in how…
5 S Process in an Assembly Shop
Recently we talked about the 5 S process developed from the Toyota Production System. We made a video and put it out on YouTube to walk through our shop and show how the 5 S…
Whose Decision is it Anyway?
It is way too easy to say that because I’m the boss, I decide. The opposite view might be that you require consensus with all those involved before a decision can be made.
An Interpretation from an engineer’s perspective
I started reading this book with hopes of picking up good ideas to apply in a group setting when we are at the whiteboard solving design issues.